IT’S hard to know where to begin this week. I desperately require more room to rant!
So with regard to MPs and their expenses, I’ll keep it brief.
The sky is blue, the grass is green and some politicians are crooks.
Those MP’s guilty of blatant fraud should be prosecuted. End of story.
Instead of course, a committee is set up to look into whether a committee should be set up. Who can we trust now?
All three major parties are involved – lets vote Green at the next General Election or take a leaf out of Monty Brewster’s book and vote for ‘None of the Above’.
Anyhoot, time to go where no popstar-scribe has gone before – The Hubble space telescope!
Lately, Hubble has been hosting a visit from NASA’s finest as it undergoes a much-needed MOT.
The crew of shuttle Atlantis are in orbit masterfully tinkering away with replacements for the ageing telescope. Moreover, the Shuttle Endeavour is on stand-by alert in Cape Canaveral should anything go amiss with the mission.
It’s the first time NASA has ever had two shuttles ready for launch simultaneously, so fingers crossed for them all.
Launched in 1990, the Hubble telescope has gifted us with some truly amazing and humbling pictures of the final frontier – check out the Pillars of Creation, the breathtaking snaps of star formation!
It’s because of the Hubble telescope that astronomers could approximately date the age of our universe to 13.73 billion years.
That we can measure its size to 156 billion light years in diameter, and take pictures of clusters of other galaxies is incredible – we can truly marvel at the wonder of space. The telescope was named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in one night changed our understanding of the nature of the universe, taking us from our solitary, Milky Way existence into a universe containing billions of galaxies. Through Hubble’s observations we can date the birth of those first stars to shortly after the “Big Bang”.
However, at this juncture I must remark that my personal belief is that it took more than just cosmic chaos to create the numerous galaxies and its contents.
As we have become so fluent in the language of science, we still cannot answer the big, age-old question: “Why?” Planets, comets, asteroids, bacteria, human beings, monkeys, the US, the Great Wall of China, the Golden Gate Bridge, Cheryl Cole and the Teletubbies ... but why?
We can’t answer why we have such a rich tapestry of life on our planet.
But regardless of race, colour, religion, faith and creed, the human race is one collective, a singular cosmic entity, alone – for now – in the vastness of space.
Human beings are connected to each other biologically and spiritually, to our planet chemically, to the universe atomically, and through Tom Jones musically.
So, if ever there was an idea, a truth that could unite us all, I think it could be this!