Floating away in the vast wilderness of space, void of all matter and energy, void of any fluctuations amidst the monotony of all fields, lies a quiet and hopeful message sent out by a young optimistic species. A message that contains their voices, their cultures, their music, their technologies, their joys, their tears and rather implicitly, their loneliness and their fear. As it speeds through nothingness towards an uncertain infinity, the hopeful species remain fidgeting at the edge of their seats, biting their nails away in hopes of the day their cosmic phone call is received. But why? Despite being at the heart of one of many cosmic laboratories that create the ingredients which make up all the things we know of: planets, asteroids, comets, space dust, moons and iphones, why does this primate venture out into boringness, leaving behind an extraordinary broth in an extraordinary cooking pot? Why leave an abundant pool of elements that constantly play with each other to form arrangements which are far too numerous for any brain to comprehend, yet only an infinitesimal fraction of the possible permutations, and travel through an unfathomable amount of time towards a cluster of mundane hydrogen and helium gases? Such questions are heavy. Such questions are not meant to be answered by singular disciples like science or philosophy.
Such questions also require an intensive knowledge and a dynamic perspective, which includes some speculations based on extrapolation of facts. To study existence, one must study the origins first. And the story of origins most relevant to the primate formulating these thoughts is the origin of the primate himself, the origin of humans. Humans. Homo Sapiens to be somewhat technical. We are the only species of homo that lives in this world. Does that not strike a little bit absurd? No animal on Earth is the only species of its kind, be it a lion or a platypus, unless all species are simultaneously endangered and all but one remain. That is obviously not the case with humans since we are far from being endangered. On the contrary, overpopulation is the greatest threat to our current existence. The drastic exponential boom of our population happened after the 18th century, which coincides with the industrial revolution that provided the world with better living standards than ever before. We humans tend to overestimate ourselves. We tend to think that we're smart enough to escape the shackles of 'natural' phenomenon. But I don't really blame ourselves. We are quite smart. Whatever deadly disease nature maliciously brews to eradicate us, we overcome. Whatever calamity nature concocts to wipe us off the face of Earth, we survive. Then who is to blame us if we do get cocky? No one. But it sure helps to remind ourselves that the very atoms that once existed at the core of our sun are the very atoms that now make up our bodies. Quite, literally, every single atom in our bodies once called the sun its home. So it's rather arrogant and ignorant to completely detach ourselves from nature's laws, because if the sun is natural, then so are we. Whatever fundamental Newtonian mechanics apply to the atoms in stars apply to the atoms in our bodies. And whatever fundamental laws govern the populations of organisms also govern us.
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Guess where we are, and guess where we're headed :)))
