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Spaced Out – My Life as a Space Ranger

Everyone says I know I'm out intervals.

My wife tells me I'm distracted and withdrawn. She says I have no sense of time constantly lose things, and can not be trusted with small appliances. She says these things are evidence of my dysfunction.According to her that I was in and fade-out of reality all the time … but she does not know which half.

My friends think I am a pie-in-the-sky dreamer, a Guy who most of his time in La La Land spend. They are too nice to say, but half the time, I think they act like I come from another planet. This is because when they see me, half the time I came back from another planet. I'm hiding this for a long time, but the truth is … I am a real Space Ranger and I have traveled all over the galaxy!

I try to tell my friends what I discovered about the inner workings of the universe, but their Eyes just rolled back in their heads, how the roles in a slot machine. It happens so often I cupping my hands under her mouth on the hopes that I hit the jackpot crack will have taken. So far the only issues I have paid is a spray of saliva when they break out in laughter.

I know, I am struck on my own petard hoist. It's my own fault that people question my credibility. Part of my problem comes from the publication of a to distinguish newspaper, is in fact from fiction. In the past, I must admit I have a few things that stretch the truth wrote. Many people doubt my in Depth interviews with Santa Claus and Bigfoot.

I understand that some people whether the register is really locked in a vicious circle Times print issue of war with the New York columnist, that our age is really more than two hundred years ago or that Round Top's Town Marshall is really high 6'9 "and rides Tornadoes.

These are legitimate doubts, and I can not deny that I lose with the facts may have played a time or two for the sake of art.

But in all fairness, any finding of the study of physics, what most of us as the "real world" does not exist think. One of the founders of quantum physics, Erwin Schrödinger, points out that at the atomic level, which executes all matter in a "completely disordered heat motion, which opposes their orderly Behavior and not allow the events that happen between a small number of atoms, to enroll after a recognizable physical laws. "

The ie, If you look closely at the building blocks of the universe from which everything is done – your car, your kids, your dinner, the new pair of shoes – you will not find everything you like facts or reality looks like.

The reality is just a story people tell each other so we are not entirely by the incredible complexity the world will be overwhelmed in which we live. The universe is inconceivably great. Life is unfathomably complex. Few of us have the slightest idea what is going on around around us, and for the most part, we do not want to know.

Accept the truth about our insignificance in the grand scheme of things is a real Blow to the ego, so who wants to do it.

The fact that everyone is making their own reality is one of the fundamental truths that even the most backward the galaxy types, for granted, but here on the old home planet, we are still in a tough time, the message.

People on our Planets often think there are some "real and objective" world that is equal for all. This kind of provincialism is very embarrassing for a Space Ranger like me.

Put yourself in my shoes. You are at a cocktail party in a penthouse in an upscale tourist colony, a gas giant orbiting Betelgeuse in the System and your host, who looks much like a six foot tall with chrome hood ornaments oyster suddenly shouts: "People believe what?" and the whole society breaks out into riotous laughter.

This kind of thing makes it very hard to act cool. Membership of the, what many consider interstellar beings " we are one of the goofie-looking species in the universe "is already difficult enough, but as an intellectual laughing stock market adds only get worse.

This is a of the reasons why I decided to come clean about my secret life and try to explain what is really going on in the universe to the rest of humanity.

Salt Crystals on a String

My strange situation began long ago when I was first a Space Cadet. It started innocently. I had a great Imagination as a child and was fascinated with the workings of the world – why salt crystals appeared suspended on a string in salt water, why the program in your hand trembles and quakes in a concert hall, where the strings on certain notes crescendo, why are all unique snowflakes and other amazing secrets of science.

When I was a child, The world was a source of wonder to me and ask me set wandering in my head … and the next thing you know, I was a Space Cadet.

It started everything, when I met Tom Corbett and the Space Rangers.

Tom was as all-American boy, tried and true, and a fellow cadet in interplanetary space Academy. He and I, along with two other young cadets. Roger, the real wise guy, but a crack navigator was the first one, and Astro, our massive, but good-natured engineer was the other. The four of us shot the entire solar system before I was in the sixth grade.

In the summer after I graduated from elementary school to school, I discovered a book called "Glory Road, and found myself hopping from one dimension to another.

That was where all the problems started. It was fun, scurrying of an alternate universe to another is fighting impossible odds, but there are serious consequences if you defy the laws of physics, and soon I was to pay the Piper.

I began to notice strange things happen when I was in seventh grade. The school year has shown me, three watches and four layers. My mother assumed I was just careless, but as far as I could tell the personal stuff just disappeared. I knew immediately that she slipped into another time / space continuum but it was hard to prove my mother.

Unfortunately, a little-known effect of such quantum phenomena, that there is a corresponding disturbance in the electro-chemical Energies occur by the synapses of the brain, if they … you really do not remember, the alternate universe of events when they happened to you.

I knew these watches – Including buried with Roy Rogers and Trigger on the dial – must be half under the purple sand of a distant world. They were probably in the context of the twelve armored feet crushed a methane-breathing three-headed beast desert instead lost in my school locker. But no matter how articulate my argument, I could not convince my mother's imagination. When I came home from school without my coat for the third time she has grounded me.

That is, if I my Life was realized as starfarer better stay a secret.

Now all these years later, I realize I am not alone. There are other people like me out there in the world, lonely and lost, never seems to fit in observation of a universe that their friends and neighbors to exercise. They seem like normal people except a few unusual quirks.

They tend not to lose everything what chained to their belts. They are constantly looking for their keys, their cell phones, their Screwdriver and wallets. to evaporate important papers on his desk at work. They have no sense of time. They have a hard time remembering names and phone numbers and never read directions. You leave the lights in the house and can not be trusted with toaster ovens.

They spend much time lost in thought, staring into space with melancholy Expression on their faces. Sometimes they are fixed observed a cloud or a crawling bug, or the reflection of light on the water, and you shake it to its to get attention.

In other words, they have the attention span of a four-year-old.

If there is someone in your life like this, I ask They will be patient and forgiveness. It can be annoying and hard to live, but they're behavior is an unfortunate side effect of an important mission.

You are secretly defending the Earth against an invasion by the forces of evil Galactic, so give them a break. It easily distracted a little when you standing alone against the Death rays of the machine-beings from the Crab Nebula.

Facing such as responsibility, someone could forget a birthday or two. These people deserve your respect, because they are a valuable benefit of the public service. The defense of the planet earth from total destruction is a thankless job, but someone has to do it.

To my Clients, friends and neighbors, I'm just a normal guy who's on a little eccentric. They assume that I lose things and can not remember the names of people who because I just do not notice, or because my brain was in the 1960s, damaged by drugs.

Actually, I'm constantly cycling from one dimension of the space to others. I will speak in Round Top on the phone or sitting on the drawing board to try someone's Country House Design and … then all of a sudden I'm under four G's as my space ship leaves the atmosphere of the fifth planet from Alpha Centauri in the exercise of insectoid aliens bent on galactic domination.

Unnecessary to say, these circumstances make it difficult for myself, maintain my professional composure at my architectural firm. It's hard to explain what really is going on, I find it necessary to maintain the farce that I simply a garden variety Ditz.

This figure has been a long time to my advantage. You learn a few Things about the behavior of sentient beings, if you hang with foreigners from around the galaxy. I've seen it over and over again, in fifty different Star systems. In some species to find out you're different – and Homo sapiens are among them – it makes them fear, anxiety and organisms that have a tendency to evil.

It has long been my opinion that it is better to take a little lip was, your lips, when overbought. As a result, I have lived a double life. But now I'm throwing caution to the wind. I will tell everyone what I found in my travels around what is really going on here on planet earth.

I have run into the house because I'm afraid to turn off the coffee maker and queen, I will burn down the house forgot. I'll clue you in as soon as I get back.

The ultimate truths of life on earth

Phew! That was close. The bottom of the coffee pot began to look like a black hole. Now back to the Facts about life on Earth. There are many such truths are of course more than I can tell you now, I will concentrate on the first seven.

1st The aliens are restless.

For the last million years or so, most of galactic society has ignored the people. I mean, it was for a few good sitcoms on human beings, mostly comedies way Bedtime Bonzo, but for the most part, no one really cared. The people were simply funny monkey scratching. They felt by the different kinds of crazy violent madness, we are almost certainly in cooking, because we are on our own planet . Insert

But then Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, and that changed everything. Those experienced by us, alive when this happens have been a very rare event. Life on earth is about 3.8 billion years old. Each of us lives on average about 70 years. That is, the probability that each individual organism alive would be if a representative of life on earth in fact the foot is placed on a different world 5,428,5714 to one.

It is not only the Beatles, the us to make a unique generation and this fact is not on people who live lost in neighboring solar systems, mainly because things happened pretty fast. Our seed spreads out. Voyager I is now about 8.7 billion miles from Earth and the way to them to 46,000 miles a hour. Watch the History Channel. You know what we are crazy, and it makes them nervous.

Now, understand what you have is that most of our neighbors in the galaxy pretty nice people. They tend to forgive and forget Types. But there are breeds that we see the same way we have a venereal disease, and if they decide we need a dose of antibiotics, we are toast.

speak That's the main reason I decided to have. We must get our curve in the next generation, or be our communal butts in a sling.

The second thing you need to know, I have already spoken above. It is important that the truth number two.

2nd You live in your own little World.

Each of us makes our individual reality. I mean, really. I am not saying that the material world does not exist. It is a world out there but each of us, it looks different in significant ways.

Throughout the galaxy every other organism has its own "real world." Highly social species our behavior as we can through talks and imitates coordinate each other, and by building a common habitat, channel our actions, but these are just tricks your brain developed so that we can get more food and make more babies than the other animals, we have to compete with for survival.

Bottom line, must You about what the other guy thinks guess. After millions of years of evolution, our brains have got very good advise. But really … You do not have the slightest idea what's going on in the minds of your wife, your husband or your children …. let alone behind the fevered brow of Osama Bin Laden or Tom Delay.

It makes no sense to Worry about what other people think. There is no point in talking to other people about what they think other people think. It makes no sense to television or Read books shows at what other people think. You'll never really know.

relax and make sure that simple, because only then you are always going a clue what a person thinks, is by listening to learn them and observe their behavior.

At the advanced worlds, listening and observing are competitive sports. You get a Ph.D. in them. In many societies, seen speaking as an unpleasant but necessary metabolic process, something like urinating or defecating. The smartest people ever say a darn thing!

2nd You are never alone. You think you are.

You are really only one cell in a larger Organism. Everyone understands this advanced society. I know you think you pay your own bills, and with your own body makes you all grown up and independent, But the truth is that you and all living things is just a piece of the living earth.

All the incredibly diverse species cover our planet only specialized Cells, as in your body. Some are liver cells. Some gastric mucosa. Some neurons.

I know this is a blow to your ego, but it is time to grow up and Face the Music. You are not really that important in the grand scheme of things. The humanity as a whole is not all that big a deal. Our Living Planet was growing and developing fine for billions of years before someone invented a BMW. It may seem like the American Idol results show is the Center of the universe, but it really is not.

The reason why you think you are an individual, because all living systems are built from small pieces which are different from each other when they work. Identity is necessary for their work, as a single cell is important is to ensure the functioning of your pancreas. What thinks for a liver cell, the liver makes no difference. Everything that is crucial if it seeps bile.

The same is true for you. I know this is hard to swallow, but time is running out, so I can not afford to break it to you easily.

3rd Everything in the universe is always running.

Human Scientists call such fact to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, or entropy. Most physicists consider it the most universal law of nature.

When the energy in each system – a star or a living organism – runs up to the point that there is a dead, inert lump of matter, it reached a state that a physicist thermodynamic equilibrium, or maximum entropy is called. It can also be described as "higher order" as a material change in its form for no more all practical purposes.

Most materials degrades relatively quickly from relative disorder characterized by heat to a "stable order caused," as they cool to absolute zero, but the march toward maximum entropy is reflected in many ways. Both solutions are mixed – for example, a glass of sugar water and a glass of clear water – the sugar is a "goal" of becoming is distributed evenly throughout the liquid water. When it reaches this state of maximum entropy is.

Such effects are found throughout nature. For example, Americans factors in complex organisms, we refer to as cattle in a mad speed. In 2000, somewhere around thirty-eight million of these highly organized and brilliantly functional organic systems, each capable of independently maintaining their energy for a considerable number of years have been "degraded" to the stable state we call the wastewater through the process of our consumption.

The wastewater is then consumed and degraded by specialized microorganisms even closer to thermodynamic equilibrium.

That same year, on average the equivalent of every American 195 pounds of red meat, poultry and fish into simpler forms. Every year of our lives, we walk more than our weight of other "higher life forms" in energy and protein, which we use to the triumph of entropy battle.

Every single organism on Earth is an efficient processing plant that remarkably effective to make one other organisms in the world around them – and also inorganic compounds – more "stable".

to find food and food are so fundamental the function of living organisms, which in almost all organisms in the brain is located near the entrance to the intestine. There are several families of genes that both brain and gut development, the old relationship between the rule reflects the gut and the brain.

It is sobering to consider, and push our cart through the supermarket, we can use The first and most important goal of our mind, but these are the facts. Like any other animal, is our main business in life, for food, can be converted to energy to the functioning of our body can support. What we do not use, we part as feces, urine and sweat.

Combined, the amount of waste produced by living organisms, both in life and in death, a significant proportion has changed the earth's crust. Soil and lime, both results of millions of years of Processing of living things, coverage of our planet.

All life is knee deep in birth and death, two extremes of a powerful entropic process. This universal competition is present not only in the great scheme of nature, but also in the daily existence of everything in creation.

Our sun is a powerful generator of energy, but like all energy, that energy slowly suffering the attrition of entropy. to create the mighty heat and pressure in the core of our planet complex mineral deposits, the surface by volcanic activity and other geological phenomena to create mountains and other major features, which in turn caused by wind, rain, glaciers and other natural forces taken and turned into sand and earth.

Our bodies face entropy per day. Millions of years of evolution have a big engine in the human physique built. Each human body has amazing abilities in the face of the entropy of the last triumphant – but in the end – every single living being, every mountain, each energy source … worn down.

So The bottom line is that your decline is inevitable. No matter how much you work and how well you eat, you are still on the way outside. All you to do you ever eat, the house and die. I know that sounds like bad news, but every cloud has a silver lining Horizon.

Entropy means that there are always plenty of work for doctors, remodeling contractors, cosmetics sales staff mechanic and washing machine.

4th They exist only as a relationship.

Now this could be difficult to understand, I'm going to use a metaphor that makes it easier. First I must inform you that a so-called "dissipative structure." Such a structure, accelerating the pace of the entropy by about energy from the world around him and They hurried toward thermodynamic equilibrium.

Dissipative structures are easier to observe in nature. Whirlpools and tornadoes are two common examples, but Galaxies and eco-systems also qualify.

When air pressure rises in front of a storm, a regular shape with a recognizable structure emerges. We call it a tornado. A tornado dissipate more efficiently, the high air pressure in exchange for maintaining their structure. It is to exist in a thermodynamic disequilibrium. If the pressure build-up is balanced, the tornado disappears.

In the early 1990s, earth scientists conducted a thermal analysis during the flight discovered several different ecosystems and that the more developed the eco-system, the colder its surface temperature. They discovered what the rest the galaxy is already known that complex living systems dissipate the energy of the sun more efficiently than those that are less diverse. The more complex the living system, the more effective it is cooler.

Your body is a complex living system, is like a jungle. The city you live in complex living system. Both you and the city are dissipative structures. They take energy from the world around you like a tornado, and use the energy to avoid the effects of entropy. As stated above, They are very effective at turning cows poop. They do this so you can continue to be yourself. The cow is sacrificed to maintain your structure.

A tornado is the identity of a relationship between a high-pressure storm system and a low pressure air layer. A tornado is an identifiable cause, but if there is a structure that you can see, and it can blow through a straw, a fence post, all its parts, parts of other things. There is no clear content. His behavior is the only thing unique , and the behavior is completely determined by its environment.

Then there is you. You're just a relationship between the physical and cultural environment, genes and from Your family inherited. The only thing is "you" is how you act and how you act almost exclusively by your instincts and your environment.

Excuse. I know it's hard to feel like the most important thing in the universe, if someone tries to say that you make choices, such as a termite, but … well … They do.

5th Your brain is not designed to make you happy.

Have you ever noticed that it is incredibly difficult to get happy and so remain?

We have developed several million years. The amazingly brilliant brains in our skulls make us smart enough to go to the moon to get. Since almost all of us want to be happy, you would think natural selection would get a better job that we have done so.

The problem is that natural selection does not care if you are happy when your luck turns your genes to make more likely the next generation. Gene are very selfish. They have their own agenda and do not care a whit about your good fortune.

Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker makes the point as follows: "People do not want to spread their selfish genes, selfish genes spread. They do this by the way they build our brains. By our lives To enjoy health, sex, friends and children, buy a lottery ticket, the genes for representation in the next generation. "

So you see, your Brain is not designed to make you happy. It is designed to give you grandchildren, and if they make you happy that your genes for you to throw himself from a lion, so they want to have grandchildren.

After they are born, you see, you are expendable. The reason perhaps is the most important of all truth for man.

6th All that really matters is sex.

There are plenty of galactic races that do not have sex. They are equipped with spurs, or by binary fission as a paramecium reproduce, or manufactured in a factory. I met a strange one, that will be reproduced using a Xerox machine. There are many different ways to do it.

But in the long run for people, sex is all that matters. Ultimately, every man is a sperm's tail shaking during of the race all the other little men the birth canal for a one-in-a-million chance determined. Every woman has an egg, waiting for the first few suitors come to, and then choosy about which one they can penetrate their cell membrane.

That is to experience. Sex is the point of all human existence. Money, power, beauty, goodness, Love, morality, success, and all our other cherished ideals are simply different strategies for making babies and help them to survive, so they make more babies.

Currently there are about 6451058790 people on earth. A year ago it was 6,376,863,118th That is 74,195,672 more in a year. In 1950 the world population 2,556,517,137th This is more than a 250% increase in just 55 years. At this rate, will be in 110 years, over forty billion of us.

You can see why our galactic Neighbors about the case, what will happen if we move in their neighborhood are worried.

About the Author

Christopher K. Travis wears many hats. He’s the Managing Partner of Sentient Architecture, LLC., a full service architecture firm.

He was a restoration, remodeling and new home builder for almost 30 years.

He’s the CEO of Nidiant Corporation, an Internet start-up that recently launched the revolutionary new Truehome.net internet startup. That project and Travis have been extensive covered by the press including a major article in the New York Times.

Christopher K. Travis is a writer and the publisher of the humor and commentary regional quarterly, the Round Top Register, which was called the “Prairie Home Companion of the Lone Star State” by the New York Times.

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