up of what direction humans should take to make all end well.
FOREWORD
Astromic: a look at our solar system, past, present and future.
We know the sun rises every 24 hours, we know about summer and winter. Early farmers would have used this knowledge and planted seeds in the spring. They had learned to use the sun to predict the future of the weather.
We are now interested in the future on a longer time scale. It is obvious astromic things will change because nothing lasts forever. The Earth was rich in minerals and life; these things get used up. The human race is a catalyst for this usage. One day the soil will be dry, the oil gone and fresh water will be no more. No food will grow and all life will starve. Plenty of other things could also be catastrophic, of which there is no need to go in to.
The sun will also one day use up all its hydrogen and thus cease to give life to the solar system. Luckily the human race hasn't yet found a way of speeding up this process.
Worrying about this isn't going to do any good and there is no point because you're not going to know about it. The average person is going to be concerned, (as they should be) about normal every day things. However, it is important to bring it up now and again to put pressure on the people with the means; to learn, understand and act in order to prepare for the eventuality of a world famine or the atmosphere ceasing to function properly.
How is this done? This is done by listening to people like me who have some ideas on the subject. The people who have acquired the specialist astromic knowledge do not seem able to get the whole picture. They become a bit pessimistic, over run with pure fact. They are the ones deciding where the next space mission should go.
Everything is, it is true, logical but history tells us a lot of what we know didn't seem logical from the start. The scientists have become the mean church leaders who couldn't accept the fact of the earth orbiting the sun. The scientists are needed but no more than the theorists are. It's like a gorilla who can hit a golf ball 400 yards. Though when he gets to the green he needs the caddie to give him a putter and say, "tap it gently into the hole."
Why ask the question, why?
If you pick up an informative book about the solar system you will find the same basic information throughout. Most of this info is accurate and correct but some of it, although stated as fact leaves a question mark hanging.
One thing, which is still not known for sure, is how the solar system was formed. The best and probably correct theory is that a big cloud of dust was slowly spinning. As it span faster in the middle, gravity pulled in a dense core and formed the sun. Then along a disc of dust the planets started to form.
This does sound like a logical theory and perhaps would have taken a few billion years to form. Yet according to the textbooks it happened instantly. Because of carbon dating the scientists have proved that the earth, mars, moon, sun and many others are all 4.6 billion years
