The Infinite World

I believe the furthest any human had ever been is the moon during the Apollo programme. Human need to venture further than that. Mars is little too far away with our current technical abilities. There is a need to build the technical expertise require for space travel, the current launch propulsion system is too energy consuming and waste a great deal of energy. The system is too unreliable, unstable and too primitive. The resources is there but wasted on other unworthy purpose. Stop killing each other and you will find the time and resources to venture into space. Human need to build something much bigger than the space shuttle. But how to build the spacecraft in space ? Propulsion is always a problem for spacecraft getting off the surface of earth, currently there is no spacecraft that can take off and go into orbit without booster rocket.

Completed the Newton 32 km run this morning in 3 hours 48 min 52 secs.  Started out the 1st km in 6:34 and picked up speed to 6:12, 6:02, 6:15, 6:02, 6:06, 6:08, 6:08, 5:55, 6:00, finished 10km 1:01:25. Slowed in the 2nd 10 km to about 1 hour 5 min and finished 22km in 2 hour 22 min. The slow down was expected as my training has been up to about 20km only. Muscle cramps started about  23 km returning from East Coast going into Marina East, had to stop and stretched the thigh muscle a number of times. Completed the last 10 km in 1 hour 28min plus, full muscle cramp near the last 100m of the run. Clearly, a lack of mileage clocked ! Luckily the weather was kind, could have been an even less ideal condition. Wondering how to tackle 42.195 km on 4 Dec 2016!

The mind is a unique component of any human beings, it determine how they live their life. It's very difficult for a normal human being to control it, they are usually affected by their emotional side that take control from time to time. Human need to really understand how their emotional side kick in and how to control it to prevent it from taking control over their general well being. It can be really ugly when the mind influence a person to be very negative in his thoughts, to the extend that it can even end a life!

Education is the passing on of knowledge from the people who supposingly know, to the people who need to know such as children and adults who require the knowledge to earn a living. Those who teach need to know how to pass on their knowledge and in a proper and interesting way. But sadly, the school and education facilities are lacking in many places. People in developed countries throw away so many books every so often, airlines should offer free space for charity donation of books to these countries that are in needs of such materials.

If you have ever witnessed the launch of a space bound rockets live or on any media, its spectacular with the associated sight and sound. But, is this the only way to leave the planet? It's a fuel guzzling exercise, this is why the rocket is so big, maybe 80 percent is meant for the propellant alone. It's such a waste of space and resources for the space mission. There has to be a better way of getting off the planet! How many people can travel in such transportation mode to space ? The most people getting off from the surface of earth on any mission is six on one of the space shuttle missions.

Finally crossed the 20km mark today, covered 20.04 km in 2 hours 1 minute 33seconds, that's an average of 6:04 per km. This is slow for a runner but I am contented for now. Cannot ask for more if you do not treat your body well, have not been doing much other than running 15 to 20 km every week. I have a 32 km run coming up on 30 Oct 2016, so have to put in some mileage to get my body to ready for the run.

Reading this phase anywhere will lead to the question of how big is the universe, and there are many different views. The limited knowledge that the conscious mind can handle, can hardly comprehend the enormous scope of this questions. If you think the universe is flat like a piece of paper, then it's ridiculous, you ignore the fact that it's probably omni directional. How can it be flat ? It's just too mind boggling for the even most powerful computer presently available, human mind can never be powerful enough to comprehend. Human need to first understand the working of their mind and body to get any further. They need to use what they know for a better cause than trying to get ahead of each other. The focus should never be the individual, human beings are inately selfish. By the way, what does mean when someone says the universe is flat?

Human can only speculate due to their lack of advance technology! At the rate they are progressing, probably can never reach another world. The greater chances is that they kill themselves to extinction  before becoming an advance race. There is no possibility that any living beings would be able to find out more about the universe that they live in. It might be infinite in size, meaning you will never reach the edge! Human needs to understand that it is no use trying to out do your own kind, it's more meaningful and important to evolve as a race that is physcally and mentally more advance.