The precarious existence
The recently observed X class flare from the Sun (1), reinforces the precarious existence of the blue planet, whose inhabitants are dumb enough not to think about it. Two massive coronal mass injections passed through the Earth as painlessly as X' Rays, while most are engaged in finding tomorrow's meals and the rest accumulating fame and wealth. Some are busy building nuclear weapons or making plans to destroy the factory. Some are busy supporting or blaming class war fare – some are in the 99% and the rest unknown. Some are making plans to colonize the Moon and yet others dreaming to travel to Mars. The more imaginative have been listening behind radio ears for extra-terrestrial life while those less so, making plans to travel in interstellar space, looking for it. Some are building taller skyscrapers and yet others ever larger atom smashers. Some want to stop contraception and yet others want to free themselves of responsibilities of bringing up the next generation.
Day and night, some fight to save and build businesses and yet others in academics count the papers yet to be published. Some toil in factories making nuts and bolts and yet others live in penthouses moving paper and noise. As the sun rises in the East, stock-markets open one by one keeping those who trade back and forth, engaged round the clock – with little time to find out if they made money. Some travel across the world looking for oil and gold and yet others stand in line to pump gas in their automobiles. Politicians take the center stage of shouting matches and delegate counting in a finely crafted virtual chess game while the opponents wait in the shadows, making sudden policy reversals. Some print money, some count it, some hoard it and yet others consume it – borrowing from yet to be defined future.
It is a most engaging comedy – unlikely to be disturbed by any advanced civilization – in-spite of the phone calls that are being made to them.
(1) NASA sees second biggest flare of the solar cycle. Published: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 21:32 in Astronomy & Space
