A friend sent me a link to this video today and told me to have a look. And now I’m sharing it with you all here as I think it has not only interesting information but some important messages too.

So what DOSE it all mean?

Let me tell you…

It all means absolutely NOTHING if we can’t get our shit together!!!

Let me share a story with you of something that happened to me a few months back. I was returning home to Melbourne from a trip to Queensland. I was driving as I love to drive and, well, I’m a control freak and the thought of getting into a plane being piloted by someone I’ve never even met somewhat disturbs me and for some reason no one will let me fly a plane myself (they keep mentioning something about not having a license…)

Anyway, I decided to stop at the massive radio telescope in Parkes in New South Wales (incidentally this is where they filmed the movie ‘The Dish’) and have a look around. I got there a little before they opened, so decided to drive around and take some photos from different angles. As I started snapping away, the dish began to move in order to point in another direction and it struck me of just how massive this construction was.

Eventually I made my way back and they had finally opened. They had built a museum and cafe next to the telescope to cater for all of the tourists. I started looking around and reading all of the information of what amazing discoveries and milestones in human history this telescope had been a part of.

Out of nowhere I felt this overwhelming emotion rising inside me. I had never felt anything like this before. As I stood reading about this piece of technology, my eyes teared up, my throat got tight and I wept. It took me a moment to realise and understand what was going on and I was taken by surprise of my own reaction.

You see, this was the first time I had ever stood in the presence of such an amazing technological achievement and had the knowledge and wisdom to understand what it meant. This mish-mash of metal and wires and tv screens, was created and put together by people, mere humans, which then allowed us to view (or listen) across the vast distances of space and explore the truly unknown. There was no Godly intervention or Alien assistance. This was made by humankind. I was truly standing next to one of the greatest human achievements, a technological achievement which at one point was at the cutting edge of science and all that we knew. Even now that the technology has been around for a while, the radio telescope is still at the forefront of exploration and our understanding of the Universe.
And yet with this symbol of all that is amazing with the human species, towering more than two hundred feet above me, I couldn’t help but feel that it all means nothing. And so I wept. I wept for our planet, the Earth, I wept for humanity and our amazing abilities and what a wondrous future we could create, and I wept for the simple fact that we are probably going to destroy both.

You see, what does it matter if we can look deep into space if the governments continue to oppress their people? What does it matter if we develop a computer more powerful than the human mind if it’s programmed by corporations that only seem content on breeding consumerism? What does it matter if we have a communications device that allows us to send masses of information around the world in less time than it takes to blink if most of the people in that world are living in poverty? What does it matter, what does any of it matter, if we can’t get our shit together and save the planet from ourselves?

NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

How could any of it mean anything if we don’t have a planet to live on?

While our governments bicker and argue about what to do, while actually doing nothing, and the corporations with the power to actually do something, ignore the problem and focus on the greed of raping the world of even more resource to gain a financial profit, it is you and me and the other 6.7 Billion people (and yes that includes the leaders of those governments and corporations) who are staring death in the eye and facing total non-existence.

If we become extinct now, nothing we have created will last more than a few thousand years. In a hundred thousand years time, other than some bones in the ground, no trace of our existence will have survived, not even the pyramids. What is the point of any of it if we fall by our own hands and leave this vast Universe without a trace? We must all unite as one people of this great planet and take action to save nothing short of ourselves.

We must take action, regardless of what our governments are doing and telling us. We must take action in spite of what the mega corporations want us to do. We must take action because we want, no, we need to survive.