ORION

Say hello to Orion. "Hi Orion." Orion (or 'The Hunter') is some bullshit mythical fighter in the sky that is clearly viewable from My house much of the year. Now I'm not big on the legends behind the constellations, but Orion has become My buddy in recent years. In fact, every night when I look up in the sky I see him and feel obligated to salute him. Sometimes I think I'm just retarded.

If you look close, you can see his two points for his shoulders, and one for his head. Then lower down you can see 3 points for his belt, and 3 more points (vertical) for his sheath. Then finally two more points for his feet.

He generally sticks out quite clearly in the dark country sky where I live, but the funny thing is, this picture of him is probably 5 times more clear than what I've ever seen in real life. Astronomers have been fascinated by one tiny point in this constellation. That is the little bright spot in his sheath. It's called 'Orion's Nebula' and has provided scientist a wealth of information on how stars are formed from collapsing gas and dust. Here's a close up picture of that little spec in the sky. Absolutely gorgeous!



This is pretty cool to view with a telescope, or even with some binoculars if you have a chance. It's mind numbing all the stuff that out there, and yet we just go on with our lives without even noticing it. I know this for a fact because now that I'm working I bring people outside at night to show them this stuff, but they shrug their shoulders and head back in. I guess talking about the latest events on reality TV is more important to them.

Everyone is so concerned about their own pathetic little life on earth that they don't even fathom that the gasses of the Orion nebula are probably just over a million years old and are still cooling to this day, and will some day be cool enough to form new planets. All this while were spinning on a dot called earth at over 1000 mph and that same dot is whipping through space around the sun at 67,000 mph! Meanwhile in a microsecond of a blink of an eye, our lives will come and go without the slightest impact on the big picture of things.

But that's OK, because if people didn't do what they do, then My theory on the continuing stupidity of the human race wouldn't even hold water. So thank you for that at least.