Wednesday 23 October 2013

#1 GOLDILOCKS ZONE - just right!

Are you broadminded?...can you think outside the square?...even if your long-held beliefs get tipped on their head?                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                    
We have all been brilliantly indoctrinated by scientists and educators that, even though nowhere else in the universe is known to be habitable, Planet Earth is just an insignificant speck in a vast cosmic universe of galaxies - not even at the centre of our own solar system.... yes?.... and they tell us it all started with the ‘Big Bang’.                 
How did the stuff that went BANG exist in the first place?    Don't ask.            
Also, don't ask about how come Mercury's orbit/rotation is synchronised, or how come Venus has a retro-rotation AND is synchronised with Earth, or why we find ourselves in the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ (just right) with our Moon also perfectly positioned, or why Mars is right where it should be, or about Jupiter's energy, or Saturn's incredible moons, or why Uranus rolls along like a ball, or how Neptune even exists, or why Pluto is still very much alive, or where comets come from……
So all this incredible design came about from an uncontrolled chance explosion??                 
In fact, scientists are now quietly admitting that the Big Bang theory is looking a bit dodgy .....but of course, don't bother changing the textbooks in the schools just yet.
So, is our solar system heliocentric?.......or geocentric?                                    
In other words: is the Sun really the centre of our solar system?……..or is Earth?
Yep!...does the Earth orbit the Sun?…or is it the other way around?                      
(Hey this guy has really lost his marbles!)

                              
Being a pilot, let me assure you that once you’re airborne, time becomes relative – it can be local time, or ‘Zulu time’ at Greenwich, or destination time, or flight time, or dinner time, or time to go to the loo!                                                           
But which way is up?….or where is north?  You’d better hurry up and find out!


Now you’ve graduated as an astronaut doing some extra-vehicular activity (space-walking) and time is not relative now - it’s meaningless. 
Who cares what time it is in Houston?...as long as your oxygen holds out.   
Which way is up?  Where’s north?  
Is Australia down-under or on-top?  
Where is your reference point now?   
“Huh?  Earth, I suppose!”                                          

See…the position and movement of everything out here is….RELATIVE. (Get that?)                      
So let’s look at how the world’s great thinkers in the past saw it….

For thousands of years Man has watched the sun and moon tracking across the sky as they appeared to orbit around the Earth. Five ‘stars’ scored the Greek name planetes because they appeared to also wander along this line although sometimes moving in reverse, yes: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

In November 2012, five of them lined up like ducks for Cairns, Queensland – all except Mars and Jupiter.               


Cairns saw 5 planets in a row!
In the 3rd Century BC, Aristarchus of Samos failed to convince us that the sun was the centre of the action; the Earth-centred Almagest proposed by Claudius Ptolemaeus (90-168 AD) of Alexandria, Egypt seemed to make more sense – for 1400 years – until, instead of 5 planets, 5 European scientists wander along:
Nick, Tyco, Joe, Leo and Zac.  
Which one will get it right?    




NEXT: “Don’t take the Bible literally”  

http://discoveryiopna.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/dont-take-bible-literally.html




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