When I'm not watching movies, playing video games or funny third
thing, I research A LOT about space. I was one of those kids who lay on
the grass (when I had it) looking up and pondering about those little
sparkling dots in the sky. Whole stories played out in my head.
Sometimes I was an explorer coming to grips with the wide black
surrounding me. Other times I was on a star ship, observing for the
first time a super nova at a closer distance. Over time, these day
dreams (night dreams? Would they be normal dreams?) faded. Not because I
stopped thinking about space, oh no. If that happened, this article
would end here and that would be that. I'm not letting you all off so
easy.
As I got older, I got answers for most of the
questions I asked. Some of it I didn't understand. The vernacular would
throw me off, and since I suck at sciency stuff to begin with (love it,
but unless there's a layman's way of explaining it, I'm left there
waving a little flag going "yay science!") I'm unable to explain a lot.
But I LOVE this shit! I wasn't going to give up so easily!
Eventually,
I was able to figure out a lot of stuff. There are great web sites and
podcasts to learn metric SHIT TONS of stuff about the worlds outside our
world. The funny thing is that there's a place where the knowledge
stops and scientists have to skirt around a few issues to do other
science things (like finger bang Alf I guess). In time, they'll probably
figure out what's going on (or perhaps their kid's kids will...like how
exactly one finger bangs Alf), but for the moment they have to utter
the dreaded "I don't know".
This doesn't mean that science gave up. They just don't know. Some of the shit they come across is just way too interesting
to give up on. Sticking to it solely would distract from other things
like, faster space propulsion, extra solar weather...finger banging Alf
(that's it I swear! At least until I find it funny again). Here's a
short list of some of the strange things in space that have baffled scientists:
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