Friday, September 26, 2014
Country Star
-That’s one bright one up there! When I lived way in
the country, just stars’d show the way to the shitter.
Didn’t need no moon.
-You realize that light has been traveling many
many years to get here? It happened tons and tons
of years ago.
-Uh huh? You went to that college two towns over.
They get paid to make things complicated. Look!
I see the light. I close my eyes and I don’t see it.
It’s there, I’m here. You don’t need no fuckin
light-years, or whatever they’re called.
-Hundred eighty six thousand miles a second!
Think about that!
-I did. It’s bullshit!
-How can you say that?
-As a Baptist. God’s up there taking charge. Alls you
gotta know!
-I don’t agree! God wants us to know as much as we can.
-No He don’t. That commandment He didn’t make.
-So, the light didn’t travel here?
-It’s up there and I see it here. What could be simpler?
Labels: astronomy, Baptist, country, light years
Saturday, January 12, 2013
The Astronomer
& His Beer Buddy
-A billion
light years, give or take.
-Put that in
perspective.
-I just did.
-Astronomer Wit
Alert! Tiny mid massive worlds.
-We do our
humble best.
-I mean…how
can we ever get to that neighborhood?
-Wormholes.
-A fiction.
Fairytale!
-You mean
like Hansel and Gretel?
-It roars,
we toil. All the religions teach humility.
-Yeah, but
they don’t mean it.
Labels: astronomy, humility, light years, religion, science
