"A lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence."
That would be us.
No, not Dolphins fans or Hallandale Beach, but humans.
Classic Charles Krauthammer!
The Fermi Paradox and Goldilocks in one column?
Charles Krauthammer zings us out of our post-Christmas/holiday blues -sorta!
But if what Charles Krauthammer says is true about intelligent life in the universe, does this also mean that for many single people who've been looking for a serious long-term relationship, for some of them, despite what they and their friends have convinced them of otherwise, there really is no "special somebody" or future "significant other" out there, just waiting for fate to intervene?
Just an empty universe?
That's too depressing to even think about!
Which is why they make films like New Year's Eve, to fool us into believing something that, maybe, isn't there.
And why there are TV marathons this time of the year:
The Washington Post
Are we alone in the universe?
By Charles Krauthammer
December 29, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The Wrap
63 TV Marathons for New Year's Eve Weekend (Including Every Episode of 'The Walking Dead')
By Kimberly Potts
Published: December 30, 2011 @ 2:23 pm
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/62-tv-marathons-new-years-eve-weekend-including-every-episode-walking-dead-33967
Charles Krauthammer columns at The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/charles-krauthammer/2011/02/24/ADJkW7B_page.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
That would be us.
No, not Dolphins fans or Hallandale Beach, but humans.
Classic Charles Krauthammer!
The Fermi Paradox and Goldilocks in one column?
Charles Krauthammer zings us out of our post-Christmas/holiday blues -sorta!
But if what Charles Krauthammer says is true about intelligent life in the universe, does this also mean that for many single people who've been looking for a serious long-term relationship, for some of them, despite what they and their friends have convinced them of otherwise, there really is no "special somebody" or future "significant other" out there, just waiting for fate to intervene?
Just an empty universe?
That's too depressing to even think about!
Which is why they make films like New Year's Eve, to fool us into believing something that, maybe, isn't there.
And why there are TV marathons this time of the year:
The Washington Post
Are we alone in the universe?
By Charles Krauthammer
December 29, 2011
Huge excitement last week. Two Earth-size planets found orbiting a sun-like star less than a thousand light-years away. This comes two weeks after the stunning announcement of another planet orbiting another star at precisely the right distance — within the “habitable zone” that is not too hot and not too cold — to allow for liquid water and therefore possible life.
Unfortunately, the planets of the right size are too close to their sun, and thus too scorching hot, to permit Earth-like life. And the Goldilocks planet in the habitable zone is too large.Read the rest of the column at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The Wrap
63 TV Marathons for New Year's Eve Weekend (Including Every Episode of 'The Walking Dead')
By Kimberly Potts
Published: December 30, 2011 @ 2:23 pm
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/62-tv-marathons-new-years-eve-weekend-including-every-episode-walking-dead-33967
Charles Krauthammer columns at The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/charles-krauthammer/2011/02/24/ADJkW7B_page.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
