The Final Frontier

I was watching a show about the sun two nights ago and I wondered if the sun makes any sounds, you know..out there in the expanses of space.   "The Sun is playing a secret melody, hidden inside itself, that produces a widespread throbbing motion of its surface. The sounds are coursing through the Sun's interior, causing the entire globe, or parts of it, to move in and out, slowly and rhythmically like the regular rise and fall of tides in a bay or of a beating heart." (Kenneth R. Lang) Sun Sounds 
This opened the door to the curiosity about other things in space. Off to the Google God! Apparently Earth makes sounds:    Earth Music     Jupiter makes sounds:   Jupiter Song   Here's lightning on Saturn:  Saturn   and a "Bow Shock" from Saturn  Saturn Bow Shock  Black holes and Quasars make sounds! Quasar   Black Hole  Neptune's Tune  NepTUNE   Even Uranus, Mercury and the Northern Lights all make sounds. It is clear that our seemingly unassuming Universe is anything but! I can see how these sounds would lead to the belief in other worldly beings---these sounds are spooky, the stuff of nightmares yet eerily beautiful at the same time.
                                                                 
The purpose of this blog to bring awareness to our small plot of land in the great vastness of space. We have been given the task and responsibility of tending to this "Garden of Eden"  Something surely is happening to our Mother Earth and there are many ideas and opinions about just what is happening. If there are "aliens" from other planets or even other galaxies you have to wonder why on Earth (another funny) they would want to study us or take over our planet. We have done a great job of mucking things up here. We've decided we could do whatever we wanted because our resources were so rich and abundant. They could never run out. Science is showing us that they are in fact running out and the depletion's are harmful to our long term ability to remain alive and on this planet. There are billions of people around the world not giving a shit about their "carbon foot print". Some of us have decided that when this planet dies or stops providing for us that we can simply board a space shuttle and hop from planet to planet. That kind of attitude is what has gotten us to the place we are right now.
                                                         
When I was about 10 or so, I saw an episode of The Twilight Zone. The story was about a scientist who had made a machine that could hear plants. What he heard was a rose bush screaming as the gardener pruned the blooms and an oak tree screeching as the lumberjack sawed and hacked into its trunk. I have never forgotten that story. We see all plants exacting their revenge on mankind through wind in the movie The Happening. The concept is both profound and haunting. What if?
                                                             
I leave you with this........
                                                                  

We may or may not be the only "beings" out there. What is certain is that this is our planet, our "temple" and it must be taken care of if the next generation of people, some of which will be related to you and I, are to thrive.Our parents always said "take care of what you have" or "you never miss anything until it's gone" and those words are never more important than right now. Our future looks bleak but it can be changed if we are conscious about what we do, how we live. Maybe the ancient ones had the right idea about giving thanks to the tree for its wood to keep them warm, to the stone to protect them in the form of a spear head, to the wind for keeping them cool, the rain, etc. And, in my opinion if we are in a place of thankfulness we are also in that place of divine love. Carry on....