by Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig
WE KNOW ALREADY that, despite the propaganda of the so-called “developed” countries, the life expectancy of the individual did not progress one inch, and actually, it is ironically regressing in these same countries that claim their population lives longer.
The trick behind the calculations of life expectancy, resides in the selection of the causes of death and the percentage of the people that the hospital system denaturalizes. But despite all the efforts, the frontier of time that is reserved for the human species, stays the same whether we are from a metropolitan city of America, a Chinese village, or an African village. As long as mankind will take two years to learn how to walk and nineteen years to get to adult life, our lives will not pass the borderline of a century and a half. The human being will live this brief moment as he has lived the nine months inside the womb. We have not yet seen a society that is working to make a pregnancy last longer with the hope that this will give a long life to the child that will be born. The frontier of time is there and is clearly marked by a sea of death.
The same sea of death marks the space frontiers. The professionals of astrophysics will tell you that our planet is constantly bombarded by radiation, and that this radiation is not favorable to our existence. It is the atmosphere of our planet that protects us. Every time we are physically elevated we are placing ourselves at risk. A simple three hour airline flight exposes us to the equivalence of radiation as that emitted by x-ray machines. This becomes alarming if we consider that the x-ray machines emit radiation in just one second.
The solar wind follows a cycle of 11 years and 18 days, and every time there is an eruption on the sun we are affected by radiation that is five times higher than the one emitted by x-ray machines, sometimes for more than a week! This is a sea of death that surrounds our planet. We can now imagine the radiation to which our astronauts are exposed.
Solar winds emitted from the burning sun in a solar storm. Every eruption of the Sun affects us on Earth, luckily the Earth’s atmosphere protects us to a certain level. This Earth Day let this be one of the many things to inspire us to turn our attention to our survival by way of the survival of our planet.
There is another kind of radiation that is known as stellar wind, and it is as destructive as the solar wind. It comes from every direction. All these elements simply reinforce the idea that our dream of inter-planetary journeys is simply as fictitious as our dreams of longevity. There is a frontier in space.
We will do better coming down to our Earth and understanding that this Earth is our home; we need to assume our responsibility toward the Earth because it is what we have. If our will to live is real, we have interest in stopping the destruction of this Earth that has given us everything and is now becoming, by itself, the vicim of our irresponsibility and our fantasies. There is no survival that is based on escaping the realities. The moral and spiritual qualities of life are not forms of political decisions, but a mandatory passage set by the frontiers of time and space that we observe.
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