So much was not accounted for that recent calculations have put that only 5% of the universe that comprises galaxies, comets, humans and the devices which this article is being read on actually exists.ĩ5% of existence is missing, yet unless the equations are light years off, something lurks out there that evades our detection. Cosmologists tripped over a quite disconcerting stumbling block that they had previously not even known was there to begin with. However, although most of the mass in existence is empty, we are still a little clueless as to why the universe is so big and weighs so much. The universe is colossal, gargantuan, vast (and all the other words for big you can think of and then some). So what do the people beyond the moon want? Are they even there? What is even more strange is the overlooking of the technology that would be required to get here to stick things into a hapless person’s rear end. Despite blurry images to people claiming abduction and even those asserting they can communicate with are even are aliens (Scientologists.), the presence of extraterrestrial life and visitors still remains achingly vague, or the domain of grainy and shaky camera or now, phone, footage. Media, movies and a myriad people consume this. Since then, especially marked by the alleged spacecraft crash and capture of aliens in Roswell, the thirst for hunting and spotting alien ships have maintained a healthy public desire. Wells penned War of the Worlds and several decades later, Orson Welles terrified radio listeners with his interpretation of the story. People have been obsessed with flying saucers and invaders from Mars since the turn of the 20th century, when the likes of H.G. A large central tenet of such faith is the belief and wish for the sightings of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). Let's ponder our obsession with intelligent extraterrestrial life. ![]() From monsters of gravity to those with no mass that treat time like a playground! Let's have a closer inspection of what constitutes this cosmos, be it through a telescope or microscope. Particles behaving so oddly as to perform all tasks at once yet form the solid choices we all make when joined together as you or me. Bizarreness ranging from incomprehensibly vast structures to objects so minuscule that they make amoebas look like leviathans. So we know that space is an odd, huge expanse of blackness and we are discovering how strange it is more so with each passing day. So the rumors of a big planet may well be not so ridiculous after all, only the weird schools of thought claiming this planet will smash into ours will be left out in the frigid cold at that immense distance. It seems that bizarre patterns in the gravity of many Kuiper Belt objects imply that a force of significant clout is yanking on them way past the limits of any previously thought planet. But now the evidence for this has solidified into potential for an actual planet and quite a hefty one at that. ![]() There have been whispers of a ‘Planet X’ lingering way out and testing the sun’s reach. ![]() The New Year has launched with eerie near confirmation of a long held belief by some (although admittedly, a large portion of that ‘some’ were apocalypse-awaiting nut jobs!) of an extra planet lurking way out on the fringes of the Solar System. The year 2016 has been no slouch when it comes to the unfurling oddity of space, and even surprising us at our cosmic doorstep (when it comes to the vastness of space at least). There was also a black hole at the center of our galaxy getting a little puckish and swallowing up a huge cloud of gas. As our knowledge expands and an insatiable curiosity buds along with it, astronomers, cosmologists and astrophysicists constantly uncover mysteries and delights that set even the most accomplished of eggheads cannot stop scratching until those shells crack! Last year was a mammoth year for the science of space discovery, for instance New Horizons bypassing Pluto and demonstrating its ice clad glory. ![]() Gazing up in wonder and speculation at that wide and endless big ole black yonder is as much a source of wonder to us in the modern age as it has always been in our less knowledgeable past. It has been a remarkable time for the sky gazing junkies that many of us on earth are.
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