(September 26, 2016 at 1:23 am)AFTT47 Wrote: The ages of stars are typically hundreds of millions of years apart! Can you imagine that? Just over 100 years ago, Orville Wright flew the first heavier than air craft for a few hundred feet. Now, we routinely launch craft into orbit. All that advance in just 100 years. Can you imagine how much advance there will be in a thousand years? But the ages of stars are hundreds of millions of years apart!!!
If you collect any two intelligent races at random, they are likely to be so far apart that one would view the other as insects while the other would view their more advanced neighbors as nothing less than gods. They will have nothing in common at all.
I absolutely loved your post. Your reference to the age of stars being millions of years apart made me analogize human development with the concept of an integral: on a universal scale, our current development is like one extremely thin sheet of the total volume of an object. As time passes, we can fill in our developmental object with millions of sheets, and what a marvel this level of development would be (and this would still be far from the finished product!). Hence, the more sheets we stack into our object, the closer we get to truly uncovering and appreciating the genius and beauty of its totality. Perhaps, if humanity stops holding themselves back with self-constructed barriers of our perceived limitations and puts their insatiable curiosity to pursue and understand the unknown into full, unimpeded action and motion, then we just might be able to complete our development and possibly advance beyond it (whatever that may be).
