I love science and I love knowledge but I'm not a Science Buff. I don't think my brain is (metaphorically) big enough to remember all the facts yet Stuart is a fully fledged geek and knows more things than I could imagine. Last night we got talking about the earth, and I wanted to share with you what I learnt. The earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old, that's pretty amazing in itself. Our sun will turn into a red giant & destroy the earth in around 4 billion years. However it is likely that earth not be able to support life in just 1 billion short years. We are living on the only planet in the known universe that can support life and are closer to the end of existence than the beginning. I don't know if turning 28 has made me start questioning my own mortality but that's pretty staggering when you think about it. Forgetting the fact that humanity may destroy themselves long before that, when you get right down to it, the earth that we know will not exist forever. It's kind of difficult to imagine. So when you go out today and enjoy the weather we're having in the UK look at the sun and think, that star is eventually going to expand and evaporate all the water off this planet and then engulf us completely but it is also the reason why life exists here. If earth was not in this little spot in the solar system it would not be able to sustain life, our ancestors ancestors would never have crawled from the swamps or wherever we originated from (note to self, next subject to talk to Stuart about is origins of life recognisable as precursor to modern day humans). I don't mean this to be a depressing post because you can read that and think well I better enjoy life whilst I can but I just thought it was information worth sharing. Happy Friday - I'm off to the Isle of Wight!
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