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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><br></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:.25in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#0B5394'>Meaning of life: 1 - either you discover it or have it revealed to you, or 2 - you make it up</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>…</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#0B5394'>So, meaning is not something something brings to you, it's something you bring to it</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>…</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#0B5394'>bill</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:.25in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><br><br>Dear Anders,<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span> Do species knowingly or unknowingly engage in some sort of 'less than zero sum' game of adaptation of environment and self? Does this explain the Fermi Paradox?<span style='color:#1F497D'> …</span>Omar Rahman<span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Meaning of life, awe and wonder, etc: when you have some some quiet and enough time for a mind-blower, google images on “open clusters” and “globular clusters” to get a feel for a huge wad of stars. Here’s some pretty good sites: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://scitechdaily.com/hubble-views-open-cluster-ngc-411/">http://scitechdaily.com/hubble-views-open-cluster-ngc-411/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular_cluster">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular_cluster</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VISTA_Finds_Star_Clusters_Galore.jpg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VISTA_Finds_Star_Clusters_Galore.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Then get a good Hubble image of a nearby galaxy, noting those bright spots and recognizing that these are open clusters and globulars, each a huge knot of stars. That will give you a vague feel for how mind-numbing many stars are in a typical galaxy. The word billion is far too easy to say and far too difficult to comprehend, so do the cluster exercise. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OK, now go into the NASA site and download a few of their deep space images. Pick one, any one. Gaze at that for a while. Jillions of galaxies, everywhere we look, every one of them with all those clusters, each cluster with all those stars, many of those stars with planets. If that exercise doesn’t inject something profound into the whole meaning of life ponderfest, your mind is just wired differently from mine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>