Madeleine L’Engle would have liked this…
I listened to earth’s ‘ear piercing…chirps and whistles‘ that could conceivably be heard by aliens. Or maybe one big Alien named God? This article described the sounds as awful, but I think they’re soothing. (Or did they mean that the sound recording quality was awful?) Of course, the volume isn’t completely up on my computer. And also, I’ve grown accustomed to the awful sound of a two-year-old’s temper tantrums.
What I really love is the guy’s voice on the Space website. I haven’t spent any time browsing science sites, but now I realize there’s a whole new world just waiting to be discovered…in CYBER space, at least.
Madeleine L’Engle would have had something very profound and spiritual to say about this. I love her books, but half the time I don’t know what the heck she’s talking about. Tessering sounds like fun, though, even if I don’t understand the science of it.
(Please hold…I’m searching the word…)
And- I’m back.
Wikipedia says that L’Engle’s tessering description more closely resembles a wormhole. And now it makes more sense to me.
I heard (or read on the internet) the other day that having quick and easy ”answers” readily available on the internet is turning our brains into mush. Sometimes my brain does feel quite mushy. And I do miss the days when I’d come to a concept or word that I was unfamiliar with and Dad said, “Go look it up.” I was usually too lazy to actually look it up in the encyclopedia or dictionary, so I would keep it on file in my as-yet-unmushy brain and when I’d come across the word a few more times in other reading I had a pretty good idea of what it meant. This, however, is not a suggested strategy for pronouncing new words. I’ve lightly embarrassed myself a number of times by mispronouncing words I should have known, had I only looked them up.
One more thing on the quick-and-easiness of the internet: SO MUCH of what I read on the internet is either 1) wholly or partly untrue and/or 2) only an opinion. (This blog falls into that second category….) The internet was written by people like you and me, unless you happen to be an SAT author, or a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica or something. I’m just talking it out on paper for my own sake. I don’t quite understand why I am (currently) compelled to publish it for the whole world to see.
On that note- I’m confused. My brain is mushy. Signing off….Here’s hoping the aliens aren’t headed straight here to blow us up after hearing these chirps and whistles….
G.
