According to Google AI: The three most profound and existential questions for Homo sapiens center on our origin, our purpose, and our ultimate destiny . These questions have driven human philosophy, science, and religion since the dawn of consciousness.   Things to think about: Philosopher Marin Heidegger asked, why is there something rather than nothing? One of the most mind-blowing facts is that Cleopatra lived much closer in time to the launch of the iPhone than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza .   Cleopatra died in 30BC, while the Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BC, a gap of just over 2500 years. From her birth to the iPhone was only around 2000 years. Day vs. Year: A day on Venus (one full rotation on its axis) takes 243 Earth days, while a year on Venus (one orbit around the Sun) takes only 225 Earth days. More cosmic perspective : There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way —about 3 trillion trees compared to roughly 100 to 40...

On this record 43rd day of the government shutdown,  the House, after a 54-day recess, will finally vote to restart .  President Donald Trump will sign this legislation. However, this  Epstein matter has returned . Sure Trump knew about Epstein and underage girls,  but did The Donald also participate? It was in Trump's first term that this brouhaha gained notice, and you would think that any documents of his involvement were deleted then. So any demands for more details from the White House now, as is being demanded by Democrats, will not provide any condemning information.  But why, then, is this being withheld? Then again,  maybe Elon Musk found something,  or the Biden administration somehow snuck away incriminating evidence. I asked Google AI to count the number of Epstein "survivors," and the feedback was more than 1000.  However, the  Miami Herald  only identified around 80 underage victims between 2001 and 2006.  These surviv...

Sunday is my day for spiritualism and philosophy.  So today I inquire into why we are here.  There is, of course, the biblical version, where God created everything.  But you can refer to the   Bible   or   Quran   or other historical source to find this answer. This not a particularly religious blog site, so I will instead today look into how  Homo sapiens  came to be and maybe not quite answer the question of  why  we are here. The Big Bang, followed by the subsequent formation of stars and galaxies, is the leading theory of our beginning, from which came our solar system with Planet Earth, then evolution to us.  You've seen these forms of graphic before: Clearly, there are galaxies, and our Milky Way is but one. When you look up into the night sky, almost all what you see are stars from our own galaxy.  If you searched and searched with your naked eye, you would be able to see only three galaxies.  The others are t...