Space – Should we be allowed out there?

 

After reading the above article I have been left with a few questions. The article above speaks of many of the things left on the moon during the early days of its exploration. Apparently, we left some sizeable pieces of junk on our closest cosmic neighbor.

 

 

 

Now I’m no hippie, I’m certainly no tree hugger (pardon the term), and I’m not a member of Green Peace or PETA or any other organization that gives a shit. I’m not one of these people who walk around preaching the evils of pollution, the need for recycling, the dangers of over population and so on to anyone that will listen. Nature is a powerful force and one that won’t let a bunch of measly humans stand in its way. So, when I think about the Global Warming thing or the Save the Rain Forest thing, I think, “so…” Why? Because life will find a way, it always has. The planet we call home will endure, it will last. Life, in general, has existed on this planet for several hundred million years (Sorry Christians), and will continue to do so barring any cosmic collisions with an asteroid (again) or the burning out of the Sun.

 

Humanity, however, may have limited time on this planet. Why? Quite simply, we’re messy, we’re destructive, and we think we own the mutherfucker. We’re kind of wrong on that last one. Just about every other species of anything on this planet melds with its surroundings and forms some sort of symbiosis. We do not; our symbiotic relationship with our environment consists of it giving and us taking. Yeah we may be the biggest smartest kid on the playground, but does that give us the right to shit on the slide? Some say it does, some say it doesn’t, either way we’re kind of fucked in the long run. Fortunately, humanity has started to realize what it’s doing and changes are being made. Are these changes for the better? Perhaps, perhaps they are not.

 

Soon there will come a time when we won’t be able to live on planet Earth. Many things could cause this, viral outbreak (looking at you Pig AIDS err…Swine Flu), a rise in the overall temperature of the planet, drought, War of the nuclear variety, and climatic changes just to name a few. We’re basically one Permian Shift away from being extinct. If you aren’t familiar with what this is, it’s a time when almost everything on the planet died. Seriously, no shit, almost everything.

 

 

Matter of fact, our own Yellowstone Park could easily wipe us out. Yellow Stone National Park is one of the largest volcanic sites on this rock.

 

 

If it goes, we go. There would be no more B.C. and A.D., we would have pre Yellowstone and after Yellowstone. If this thing goes, we are fucked… proper fucked. Therefore, with all of these things stacked against us, it’s a possibility that we will have to find a new place to live…and pretty soon.

 

Thus begins mankind’s exploration of space. Here are my questions, will we just do it all again and will the other Life forms in the universe (come on it’s totally possible) tolerate our viral behavior? My guess is yes and probably not. I think that we would do it all over again, where ever we wind up. We’d litter the place up; we’d make factories that fill the skies with smoke and other damaging chemicals, and we’d strip whatever resources we found useful. I think we would leave our mark no matter where we go, and not in a good way. Now as far as E.T. goes, I imagine any intelligent life form that allows us to chill for a bit probably won’t tolerate our bullshit for very long. Kind of like that house guest that steals your beer without asking. I would imagine it would be about the same as how a farmer thinks about a locust…pests, fucking up their shit.

 

Yeah…yeah, I hear you already…”but humanity has so much to offer.” That may be. But we do have a knack for making a BIG mess of things and I think THAT needs to change. We can’t carry on the way we did here. We can’t take our “you give it, I take it” mentality to other worlds. We DON’T own the joint. I have little faith that we will learn our lesson and not take all of our bad habits elsewhere. We’re already leaving our tin cans on the moon, and that was just to check it out. We won’t learn our lesson, we never have.

 

Perhaps we need to rethink this whole coexistence thing, not only with ourselves, but with our surroundings as well. Primitive man knew this, so at what point did we evolve into being messy selfish children? Is it in our genes to want to put our stamp on everything? “We were here. This is now ours.” Is that such an important thing? Perhaps there are certain places we shouldn’t be, places we shouldn’t go?

 

Well I think I’ve ran on enough about this. NASA, Putin, China, clean your shit up. We may have to live on that rock we call the moon some day and we don’t need it to be a fucking mess when we get there.

 

Like I said before, I’m no hippie, I’m no environmental whack-a-doo, but I do recognize the fact that we are indeed, messy spoiled children.

 

Thanks for reading and keep looking to the Stars…some of our trash may be falling toward you.

 

Cheers, and have a great fucking day.

 

Chet Chesterson