BLUE STARS GUYS

Okay, so the prompt is to pick an article from this week that interests me and write about it, and there was this article about Blue Stars, which look totally sick, in case you were wondering. The article was about how Blue Stars prove the universe is only thousands of years vs. billions of years old, as Blue Stars apparently use a lot of fuel to burn like that, and should burn up within millions, not billions, of years, and whats wrong with the nebular theory and such. All that is totally boring though, because freaking Blue Stars guys.

The article doesn’t even hardly explain them, (lame) so I looked them up. They’re just like other stars, 74% hydrogen and 25% helium, 1% etc elements, except they’ve got a different temperature. So it seems red stars are the coolest, and blue are the hottest. Their temperatures vary depending on their mass, nothing else. Blue Stars have at least 3 times the mass of our Sun. They can get much, much bigger than that, but as long as they’ve got that minimum down, they will appear blue to us.

Rigel is an example of a Blue Star. It’s the 6^th brightest star in the sky, and the brightest in the constellation Orion. It’s been calculated that Rigel is somewhere between 700-900 light-years away, but still is as bright as Sirius, which is approx. 8.3 light-years away. Rigel is about 11,000 degrees Kelvin, (19340.33 F;10726.85 C) versus the Sun’s 5,887 K (9940.73 F;5504.85 C).

As Blue Stars as so hot, they burn through fuel very quickly. “With 150 times the mass of the Sun, Eta Carinae has only been around for a few million years and it’s expected to detonate as a supernova within the next 100,000 years. Our Sun, in comparison, has been around for 4.5 billion years and is expected to live another 7 billion years.” –Blue Stars written by Fraser Cain Jan, 29^th, 2009,

http://www.universetoday.com/24362/blue-stars/

Is most of what people buy totally unnecessary?

So, the prompt asks if everything-or at least most-of what we buy is unnecessary. Yes. It is. Even the things we consider ‘necessary’ aren’t needed. No matter what, we all die, and everything we have, need, or know will evaporate into nothingness. Oblivion is inevitable.

Food, water, and oxygen. That’s what is needed to stay alive. The only ‘necessary’ things in life. That said, there is absolutely no conceivable reason for anything else. Food grows out of the ground. It walks. We don’t need to create artificial foods; they aren’t necessary. Yet we make them. Why? Simple whim, I suppose.

No, you do not need that pink towel. You don’t even need a towel, period. You can air dry. You don’t need a non-stick pan, either. NOTHING is really needed. I cannot stress that enough. You will die. The people who know you will die. The only way to be remembered is to do something with your life, but have you done that? I doubt it. Not yet, at least. But even then, if you did something worthy of being remembered for, eventually, our whole world will be dead. Our sun will burn out. Zombie apocalypse. Aliens. Nobody knows how, but it will end someday. So, yeah, nothing we buy is necessary.

We may be an accidental speck in an enormous void, but stop focusing on that. Who gives a crap if its necessary? Why must it be useful?

Once, I was in the car with my grandma. A Weezer song was on, (I’m pretty sure that’s what it was) and they were singing this one sort of sound.. Like “Ah, ah, ah” or something, and my grandma changes the station. I happen to like this song, so I look at her and ask, “You don’t like Weezer?”. She says no, I don’t like them saying that same thing over and over. I mean, what’s the point of it?

What’s the point of anything? What’s the point of your excessive amount of potholders? What’s the point of all your work out videos that you don’t use? What’s the point in all the broken sewing machines you have? Huh? What. Is. The. Freaking. Point. ?

There is no point. But don’t focus on that. Focus on the fact that you have a consciousness. Focus on the fact that you can DO things. Focus on the fact that you have a will, that you can say you did something. Focus on people. Focus on people most of all.

I would like to disclose that I do not believe in religion. I think it’s dumb, it draws us apart, it creates invisible lines that when crossed causes war and hatred. Plus, scientifically it doesn’t make sense. I can’t wrap my head around it. But, if I had to have a religion, it would be people, because what is better to live for than what we really are?

People are freaking amazing. I mean, I can’t stand people. Too many warped ideas and rules and restrictions and societal molds to fit into and mean, rude, buttheads and labels and “I don’t like you because of a physical/mental/emotional/ differential variable thing that is stupid and I realize its stupid but people will judge me if I don’t judge you and that’s stupid too and everybody knows its stupid but it still happens”es. But put all that aside, people are great. People are what give people a point.

I read this book called ‘Evidence Of Things Not Seen’ by Lindsey Lane. This kid goes missing, and the whole book is the sheriff interviewing people in town about what they think happened to him. (theres other stuff too, but basically that‘s whats going on… its a really good book. You should read it) Anyways, this kid was always writing in this notebook, and throughout the book, bits of paper show up. One, at the beginning, says something along the lines of: We are each made up of tiny little particles, and every time we meet somebody, little particles of us stick to them and little particles of them stick to us and as we meet more people and do more and experience more, we get more and more particles, and in the end, that’s how we get whole. Something like that. I thought it was freaking beautiful.

No, most of the things we buy aren’t ‘necessary’, but I don’t care, you shouldn’t care. Stop caring about that. Care about something important, like music or paintings or puppies. Just care in general about good things and making sure they continue to happen. Quit asking why, and start asking why not.

Arronax vs. Nemo

Who remembers reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? Wasn’t a great book? If you haven’t read it, or you need a recap, here we go: Professor Aronnax, his manservant Conseil, and a Canadian harpooner named Ned Land are aboard a ship called the Abraham Lincoln, chasing a “giant norwhale” that has been terrorizing ships across the globe. As they attack this monster, it attacks back, causing our three friends to be thrown overboard. Captain Nemo of the Nautilus takes them in, feeds them and shows them wonders under the sea that no other man has seen before. It’s a wonderful story, with wonderful characters, two of which I will be comparing.

Professor Aronnax specializes in natural history, marine animals especially. He had written a book titled The Mysteries of the Great Ocean Depths, which established him as an expert, which is why he was called upon for his opinions on what was attacking ships.

He was curious, and believed that man didn’t know what lay past ten miles below the surface. He was sure that there were creatures they’d never seen, and might not ever see. He was excited to come along on the Abraham Lincoln looking for this creature.

Captain Nemo is a man filled with hatred. You can tell from the way he acts. Something horrible happened to him, and he seeks revenge. Not the eye for an eye sort, though. He has made himself a fortress, surrounded only by few that he had chosen. He can get everything he needs and more from the sea, and he’s proud of the fact. He has spent years bettering his mind and learning new languages and discovering things, and it all falls into a grand master plan to get back at the surface world for wronging him so horrendously.

Both characters have an immense love for the sea, and all that can be learned, discovered, and made from it. They find it fascinating. Each has great knowledge of marine life, and each yearns to know all the secrets that the sea keeps. Each would spend days reading from Captain Nemo’s library if they could. If they had years to, they would collect shells and organisms to study and admire. Both want to immerse themselves in knowledge, and both have great love for the seaweed forests. Both are also stubborn and want their way, and I doubt I either could go a day without a bombardment of questions, although Captain Nemo seems to have answered many for himself before having met Professor Aronnax.

Their differences are mainly in personality traits. While they do have similar interests and such, Nemo seems to be a bit more aggressive. He’s very secretive with things, and spends days at a time locked up in his room. He has cold eyes and has seen death, and is a bit of a prick. Professor Aronnax, on the other hand, spends all the days Nemo doesn’t have him locked up out looking around, and he expects answers to his questions. He’s baffled by Nemo’s secretiveness. He’s inquisitive and wants to know all the sea’s secrets, but he wants to go back to land, while Nemo has sworn never to step foot upon the surface world again. Aronnax gets sick of eating fish daily, and craves land-meat. Aronnax is also a much, much nicer person than Nemo. They are practically polar opposites personality-wise, and don’t actually like each other that much. Nemo refuses to let them leave because NO ONE can know of his ship, and he thinks of Arronax as a burden. Arronax can’t stand imprisonment.

While they both are very curious and love the sea very much, Nemo thinks of it as his home, while Aronnax craves to be back on land like smokers crave nicotine. I think the characters are amazing and fit together so well and are like compliments to each other, even if they find each other disagreeable.

Does working with others lead to better results than acting as an individual?

Working alone allows the you to leak out. You don’t worry as much about what others think, so you express yourself more freely. Restrictions on the imagination fade away, and you want to create something more.

In a group situation, you’re more likely to just ‘go with the flow’ and not voice your opinion. The ‘Flow’ might not be the best route to go along though, as it might just be a vague, generalized stereotype-ish idea. You’re going to mess around with your friends in the group, and you won’t be as efficient.

It’s different if you don’t know the people in the group. If it was a random pairing then you won’t know each other well and will be uncomfortable and scared to share your ideas because you’re scared of ridicule.

I think that if there’s only two people in the group, I think you have an advantage. If you guys are comfortable around each other, and you both want to succeed, then you will excel greatly. If you guys can mess around just a bit, work together well, throw out every idea that pops into your head, and encourage each other, then you’ll be virtually unstoppable.

I’m not the best at having a definite answer to these questions. I think I argue both sides and then kind of lean towards one a bit more. On this, I have to go with working alone. I mean… You are YOU, your mind has the ability to see things different from all others and if you’re by yourself then you don’t have people holding you back. You have to break all your boundaries, stop worrying what anyone else says, and spit your ideas out onto paper. Gag them and spew them everywhere. You’re unique. You can do it all.

BUT don’t forget everyone else. You DO need support and a hug never hurts, just know you can do it yourself and that you don’t need to immobilize someone else with everything you’re trying to do. They have their own stuff. Accomplish your own things, and they’ll accomplish theirs. 😀