Endless rush of energy, a two stroke engine blistering and spurting out torque, a four stroke engine resonating resilience in a grotesquely multidimensional sought output, sometimes four cylinders, other times four hundred cylinders powering a roller coaster here, a heavy weight truck there. Solar panels hung up smartly on the roadside poles, ambitious plans to power cities on solar panels put up somewhere in a desert miles away from cities. Wind mills accused of killing birds, lashing them as they fly past or worse brutally slash up the wings and leave birds at the mercy of dogs below. Innovations in chemical battery making: now putting citrus derivatives to achieve truly green power.
artificial sand dunes in the making at Dubai’s most expensive hotels, strangely heretic plans to put up mirrors in the sky, so to divert sun rays away from the planet that we hope to enhance greenery in (or to sustain the existing balance). scientists working day and night to envisage the exact date and time that the milky way would convalesce into the neighboring galaxy, when this happens the two black holes at the centers of individual galaxies would churn out enormous amounts of energy before relapsing into a singular black hole with all the rubble floating around it, where there were two centers, now there would be one. projects to find out places where we could fly safe to, before a catastrophe occurs, be it the galaxies uniting, or the sun running out of its fuel, or an asteroid hitting earth. And now, there are plans to divert the speeding asteroid away from earth.
the human genome projects to painfully decode the whole array of genes and their attributes, one can now get a report done on his genes and the relative significance of his ancestral line and thereby zero in on his lifetime, one can find out the dormant mal episodes in his being, potential victimization that he can get treated for. rockets are now launching space probes into the most intractable lands in our solar system, some of our probes are ballistic in redefining our horizons, probes flying away from our planet, some of them are so far that we can no longer communicate with them, we have put up metallic sheets on these probes with information about us, our populace and everything, reduced into numbers (for mathematics is universal language) and music tapes (for music possesses a cosmic harmony).
now, we have fertilizer manufacturers injecting suicidal genes into seeds so they can sell year after year, we have insecticides with complex chemical configurations, the long term effects of which (according to humans, long term refers to 60-100 years) are elucidated in laboratory manuals. Now we have computer operated weather controls, and computer operated satellite controls, and computer operated cryptography. Now we have machines that can analyze the brain's activity in response to a stimulus, be it a simple daily routine as lifting a bag, or a complex evolutionary triumph such as sexual activity. Radio waves are encrypted and decrypted before encrypting them over and over again intolerably to squeeze them to the other end through a maze of tormentors (radio activity receivers, hackers).
Imagine an asteroid that is travelling at many times the speed of sound; now imagine a fairly sympathetic mission of landing a space probe on it (sympathetic, for landing a probe on such an asteroid is to calculate the gravitational forces within the vicinity of it and carefully catapult the rocket launcher towards the asteroid in a series of giant orbital leaps, where the launcher would first enter the orbit of a planet nearby thereby gaining momentum before exiting at tangential velocity into another orbit that is now closer to this asteroid, this is done over and over again before scientists are certain that the weather conditions on the asteroid are conducive and it is safe to land. Now, where do they land it, most of these asteroids and planets have an atmospheric dust that never settles down, some of them are at hundreds of degrees below freezing point while others are at hundreds of degrees above water’s boiling point). Now that the probe is launched, if it is, instructions should be sent and received from our planet (for this, the probe should be situated at an angle and location where sun slips through the dusty clouds).
All these and many more! Entropy in an isolated system increases with time, or in other words disorder increases over a period of time. although all the scientific advances possess a unifying and emphatic face of ordered progression (or preserving order), it turns out that the system might actually be disintegrating into disorder, only we may not be able to acknowledge it, for we are sitting inside the system. we, the objects that preserve order (by consuming raw materials and churning out useful energy) may never work out the universal enigma for that would be order, but may simply be exploiting the prevailing conditions into gratifying ourselves on different scales and on different grounds, all the time deluding that we are getting more ordered.
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