Apollo 11, famously known for Neil Armstrong’s quote, one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” This quote inspired a generation of astronauts and space travel. Also, this historic event that took place on July 20th, 1969 at 20:18 UTC or 3:17 pm EST. 50 years later, on July 20th 2019, many people- not only in America- but all over the world commemorated humankind’s greatest accomplishments in space travel. This image portrays earth as blue, rocket as red, and silver as the moon. Several historic videos have been released from the Apollo 11 moon landing as well as recordings of the lunar flyover. As humankind begins to expand as a multi planetary species, many technological advancements will be made-even in the next 10–20 years! In 1969 and now 2019, our regularly-used smart phones hold more technological power than of the Apollo 11 flight’s computers themselves. We carry around pocket sized supercomputers and connect devices with others in an extremely easy tool called “Bluetooth.” In just 50 years, we have built an incredible civilization and I can’t wait to see what will happen in the next 50 years-or even sooner.
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I What will the future of humankind be like? Will we have flying cars? Will robots rule the world? Will we venture out into deep space? No one knows besides the people that plan to do these things- besides the whole robots-ruling-the-world thing. Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX and popular for hosting meme review, plans to send humans to Mars in the mid 2020’s and NASA plans to go back to the moon in 2024 and then take a big leap towards the red planet. Every week, our daily and weekly news, now both digital and physical, feature news about the newest studies and technological advancements of tech and robotics companies, but also astronomical discoveries, like the first picture of a black hole. I also am pretty certain that a tech company has begun the creation of a flying car, or will soon. So, the next few decades will be spent on interplanetary space travel and flying cars. As interesting and sci-fi as this sounds, researchers are almost certain that by 2050, the population will rise to 9.7 billion people. This means more cars will be manufactured- not always electric- but gas cars as well. By 2050, the coral reefs are predicted to die from plastic pollution and global warming. I know this article isn’t about climate change and I’m not here to rant about how we need to change the way we live, but this is our future. By 2050, only 31 years away, we could have a high-tech civilization on mars, we could terraform mars into a fertile place like earth, but we’ll lose sight of the most perfect planet in the solar system. “Not too hot- Not too cold. But warming.” We need to change the way we live by 2050.
You wake up, perhaps go straight to the gym or the coffee machine. You prepare for a day of work or school, maybe even just a day of relaxing. Let’s say you head on to work, whether it’s an accounting job at a local firm or a receptionist at an office, work is full of stress and business. This day is a particularly normal day, with the regular thoughts and emotions of your human mind. But does it cross your mind that when you drive to work, your car releases CO2 into the atmosphere, destroying many animals’ habitats and lives? Does your mind escape the emotional human mindset into the curious, scientific mindset? For many, you may always be thinking about your choices and how they affect the world around you. For others though, these thoughts may not even cross your mind at all. So, does climate change affect the mind and conciousness of an everyday human? NO, and this is a problem. Humans need to be conscious about how they treat their environment. That coffee machine was created in a factory, polluting the atmosphere, then packaged in plastic and plastic-lined cardboard, then placed in a larger bag of plastic and shipped (through trucks which leak CO2) and those plastics are either dumped into the ocean where several marine animals die from that one large bag of plastic, and more die from each individual package, or the trash is dumped into a landfill where it decomposes over the next 1,000 years. So if you’d like to change the world, don’t worry, you have done quite some changing. Another example is your drive to work/school. You can have an electric car, but even those are created in factories. You can drive a gas-powered car, which leaks CO2 (as previously mentioned) and rises into the atmosphere and through an interesting cycle that warms the planet, which I will write about at a later date, results in global warming. Our everyday habits and “necessities” are affecting our earth. And not very human being thinks about how to change our habits, how to make these worsening problems better. Think about it: You can spell “heart” with “earth,” I encourage you to go green! Love the earth for being our *warm* home and consider your everyday choices. The smallest tweaks and changes will make the hugest differences in the future.
What does being sucked into a black hole feel like? Are you still concious, or does the effects of gravitational force completely disorientate the mind from it subconscious state, leaving the person entirely deceased? The effects of black holes and their gravitational force are unknown, besides the theory that your body streches so far, your body turns similar to a long strand of spaghetti. My hypothesis is that if you were to be absorbed by a black hole it disorientates the mind and completely changes your state of consciousness. The effects of this alternate state of mind is unknown, and the effects of the brain anatomically is also another question. In the photograph below, a photograph represents the disorientation of space, light and time. Do the effects of the gravitational force on time and space affect the wholeness of the human thought, or dream? Does the warp of light affect the psychological mindset? This unknown psychological paradox will leave the mind feeling as if it has entered the mysterious black hole, the inescapable hole that warps light and space, so is it dark matter, or a hole that leads to the inexplicable?
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