Tuesday, May 27, 2008

ULTIMATE ASTRONOMICAL RESOLUTION

Given the advances of the planet hunters of today, who now are able to spectroscopically focus in on the composition of extrasolar planetary atmospheres, and to judge whether life might exist on a given planet................................one has to ask the question, what is the ultimate astronomical resolving power, will we one day be able to focus in on people and events on an extrasolar planet, indeed is someone out there looking at our development through ultimate astronomical resolution?

As John Lennon aptly said, "well we all shine on, like the moons and the stars and the suns, yes we all shine on, like the moons and the stars and the suns.........". This is apt for todays planet hunters, for it is as if the universe somehow has recorded, at the speed of light, each and every individual's innermost secrets and actions to one day be resolved through the signature they have made in the light of day or the dark of night, by some fancy astronomical contraption of the ultimate astronomical resolving power........

Thus John Lennon spoke of "Instant Karma" where when you die your life is played out before your eyes, as a very long and sometimes convoluted screenplay before you, and a neutral analysis and critique is projected onto you of each and every one of your actions in your life. And Lennon speaks thus, "You better get yourself together brother, pretty soon you're gonna be dead...................well we all shine on, like the moons and the suns and the stars, yes we all shine on, everyone come on................."

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