A Review Of....The Universe...

Ok, so for my next review I'm scaling things down a bit, so...THE UNIVERSE.
Actually, there are many similarities with life. Nothing but vacuum-y darkness, rocks with nothing on them and big balls of gas, and then BANG!... lobsters, Cherry aid, Turtles, Topiary, potpurri.... ok not getting into that again. Plus, this way we get to look at the rest of the Universe form the comfort of our little earth, and the rest of the Universe is quite pretty. It has all those colourful clouds of stars and swirly galaxies and shiny stars (BTW for all those of you who live in LA or any major city in China- stars are those twinkly things you hear about in poems, songs and nursery rhymes etc.).
If you are lucky enough to live in the country, like what I do, then you can see the whole Milky Way on a clear night. While seeing it you may have had the terrifying realisation that you are looking at an entire arm of the Galaxy and that you are stuck onto the edge of a rock hurtling through it, by something invisible and not that strong (a fridge magnet is stronger than gravity- it can pick up a paper clip, thus countering gravity- think about that next time you go star gazing!).
Whilst It would be excellent to have a good explore of space there are a few problems. First, if we did go and we find, say, a planet made of chocolate with beer instead of water (for the girls and the boys - Space is very gender stereotypical) only a few people would ever be able to get there, it would take decades and cost enough to end poverty on the earth we actually inhabit. Even if it didn't and Ryan Air chartered shuttles there (God help us), it would just be another place you may get around to visiting one day, but probably never will. The world is already too depressingly big to explore every where you want to- if you can't get round to going to Maliga, Betelgeuse seems unlikely. Of cause the benefit to perfecting space travel is that in the event of us destroying the world in some way, which seems to be that way it's going, we could always fly far, far away (or maybe I've just watched too much Firefly).

The Second problem, well an avert on at the moment says it well. "would you rather know that we are all alone in the Universe, or discover that we are not?" - Scary

Thirdly. Everything goes well. Humanity survives Billions of years. We colonise the Universe and discover all it's beauties and wonders. Life is good...only for one thing...the Universe is Imploding!...ah bugger.

Ali xo