Face It - We Are Alone

We are stuck with our universe, and powerless to alter its fundamental constants. So long as this is the case, the anthropic principal will be immune to experimental falsification  - a sure sign that it is not a scientific principle. 
Heinz R. Pagels, A Cozy Cosmology, The Sciences, Vol. 25 No. 2 March/April 1985 p. 35-38

As one gets a certain age, one must take stock. One must admit that some long held beliefs were a bust. As a youngster growing up in the 1960's I was all but convinced in my heart and soul that by the year 2015, we would have made contact with certain higher life forms that surely populated the universe.

Pioneer Plaque - Relax, no one will ever see it...

And in hand with that there would most certainly be proof that could be visited in a museum. The Lunar Rosetta stone for instance. After all there was Carl Sagan and the Drake Equation, how could one go wrong with authority such as that? Here we are in the early 21st century and not one artifact, not one message, and not even anymore sightings of possible alien spacecraft.

Relax! The aliens threw their record players parsecs ago...

For many years the Oracle of Ottawa was convinced of the mainstream urban myth that our governments had secretly cut a deal with the aliens and all findings were forever stored and suppressed. But the only people that could believe that are the ones that have never worked for government! Governments can't keep secrets. And the only thing that a government can cover up, given enough time and money, is it's self! And as time goes on it is getting harder and harder for them to even attempt to do so.

My favorite counter argument today for the space cadets is this; if the worlds largest governments really had the ear of a Type III civilization, do you think that they would have allowed 9/11 to happen? That argument just kills, feel free to use it. The smarter ones then start on about all the exo-planets discovered by the Kepler Observatory of late. How there are thousands of possible earth like planets in the sweet spot around a star with water. The reply here is, how many of those sweet spot planets have a counter rotating molten core like Earth that will generate the defenses from the full electromagnetic interstellar space spectrum like the Earth does? The answer is about zero.

Then there is the question is why did the Americans stop going to the Moon? Answer: the TV ratings went to hell and there was way more money and profit margin per item, for the defense contractors to make Agent Orange and Napalm then heavy detail cost plus contracts for small amounts of very closely supervised space vehicles! Yes Sir! The Humans of Earth are one serious bottom line life form...

The Spanstrom - A Cosmological Dimension

Now let us move helter-skelter to a dramatic conclusion.
Sir Fred Hoyle, Frontiers Of Astronomy, p. 339

The species of Man, if it is to realize its full potential in the Universe, must get over it's self.  We must start to face up to our limitations and realize that being a really smart ape with a big stick  (dick?) is just not going to cut it for much longer. In all the astronomy and cosmology texts that I have read so far has no dimension for man in context to his place in the Universe.

NGC 6302 - The Butterfly

The Oracle of Ottawa, as a public service to his world wide readership, has decided to remedy the situation. We have all heard of the angstrom that is a unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁰ m  or one ten-billionth of a metre, it is used to measure very small things. My unit is called the spanstrom, that is a non dimensional unit of time and space, compared to the average mans life. For the calculations in this post, our "unit life" will be equal to 83 human years, or 83 trips around the sun of our solar system.

The highest score you can achieve is 1.00. This is scored to the man who seriously believes that that the universe started when he was born and will end when he expires.  i.e. 83/83 = 1.00

Now assume that the man was a very big fan of Bishop Usher, whose date of the creation was October 23, 4004BC. Now add 2015 years and you get 6,019 years. The fundamentalist creationist will have a spanstrom value 83/6,019 = 0.0137 

Now let us continue with some values that would pretain to a thinking man. Let us first try the earliest value for the Hubble length. The figure 1.2 Billion light years comes to mind. This would gave a spanstrom value of 6.1967 x 10^-8.

Of course as time went on the Hubble Length tended to get longer. For a Hubble Length of about 5.0 billion light years the spanstrom value is now 1.66 x 10^-8.

For todays Hubble Length of 13.8 billion years, the spanstom value is 6.0145 x 10^-9.

Then there is that circumference figure that I believe is 93 billion years. This will give a spanstrom value of 8.9247 x 10^-10.

If you look up the number of stars in a galaxy in Wikipedia, the number at the time of this writing is 
100 billion, The value of the spanstrom of the number of stars in just one galaxy compared to an ordinary mans lifetime you will get a spanstrom value of  8.30 x 10^-10.

At the time of this writing the suspected number of galaxies in the observable universe is 400 billion, this gives a spanstrom value of 2.075 x 10^-10.

So now we can come to our conclusion. And that is that as man finds out more about his universe and it's unimaginable vastness the value of his significance tends to zero.... Sorry about that.