Re: Obsessed With Time, Speed Of
There was an episode of Star Trek Next Gen, where Capt Picard gets knocked out on the Enterprise....and 'wakes up' in this rural village, on a planet, He marries, has children, grows old, watches his family & friends grow old & die, his children grow up, etc and 40 years passes, and he is an old man...... and then he awakens to find he is back on the USS.Enterprise & was only really unconscious for 20 mins, and the planet he 'lived on' had actually been destroyed 1,000 years previously.
It really made me think about the whole space-time continuum, and how a tortoise can live for 70 years, a dog live for 15 years, and a mayfly live it's whole life in 24-hours - yet which really has the longest life? Does the mayfly envy the dog for living longer? Does the dog envy the tortoise? Or does each just get on with doing their own thing, completely oblivious to the passing of time?
Sorry, what was the question???
Last edited by kendo59; 30-09-08 at 23:49.
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