- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Yeah, this doesn't seem like a religious topic to me. I can only see how it can come into play if someone were to jump in and think that a higher force of something came in and did whatever people think or believe this higher force being did. Other than the actual topic at hand, I don't see how this topic could be errumm... worshiped...?? And anyway, why wouldn't it be okay to talk about space? Isn't Halo dealing with space and all?...
Anyway, I have an answer to something zobe was trying to say. You said scientist were trying to figure out if the universe was going to continue to expand or retract (collapsing in on itself). Well, it was actually just a few years ago I was watching on the Discovery Science channel (not religious channel) they were talking about this very subject. They even had Steven Hawkings on there. Anyway, they said they were sure that the universe in indeed an open universe (not closed) which means it will always continue to expand. And while this might sound like a good thing for the future generations... well... it would be if you didn't take black holes and the expanding sun into consideration. Now before you think about the sun giving out and no longer putting out heat or light, you should first consider that when it expands (as all stars do before they die) it will grow closer and closer toward Earth. This will increase temperature and eventually it would become so hot that life is unable to sustain itself. Then the only way to escape and possibly survive longer would be for people to travel to other planets away from the sun bringing along perhaps other living things such as plants for making oxygen and for food... and as the sun continues to expand, we continue to hop to other planets (or their moons). But eventually we won't be able to planet hop forever and we'd have to eventually burn up in the sun's heat. Now, if that doesn't kill us first, there is always the black hole that is located in the center of our milky way galaxy. Our black hole continues to suck up the milky way, and eventually, whether the sun has engulfed us yet or not, everything in the milky way including our solar system will be completely sucked up. Then the only way to escape that would probably be to travel to another galaxy. But hopefully for the future generations the technology will be advanced enough to travel these great distances. Especially between galaxies since they are ever drifting farther away from each other and into the ever expanding universe. Now, if life were to end even sooner than that, there are always meteors...
cheers,
Twisted Chains
[Edited on 6/7/2004 6:14:05 PM]