Manchester Synagogue Attack

I leaned earlier in the week that there was a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester.. A man rammed his car into Jewish people and stabbed people, he was dressed with a fake bomb on his torso. I won't write his name because he doesn't deserve recognition; the police shot him dead. I feel pity for the victims of the attack and their families. 

I was wondering what happened to the planet that once existed in-between Jupiter and Mars. There was a huge collision and the asteroids in the asteroid belt were left behind. I was wondering what happened to the bulk of the planet. I thought to myself that it crashed into one of the gas giants, perhaps Uranus is turned on its side because a terestial planet crashed into it. Perhaps a collision dislodged the planet and the only evidence it existed is a belt of asteroids left over from the collision. The astroids in the asteroid belt and the dwarf planet Ceres have a low mass compared to the planet that created them. You need a large planet to cause large amounts of Iron to build up like that. I wonder how many terrestrial planets crashed into gas giant planets in the past. Perhaps I will never know, it will forever be a mystery. 

In the Dark

Being a human is being surrounded by mysteries you may never know the answer for. That is true of people and certainly true of me. I'm very much in the dark. I wonder what would happen if King Henry the 8th's older brother Arthur wasn't killed by a disease when he was still a prince. No one knows. All I know is Henry wouldn't be king, we would have a different line of monarchs. What would history be like if king Henry's older brother lived to old age? 

Then there is the question of perception. If I was telepathic and saw through the eyes of another person, would their red and green be the same as my red and green. Do our brains assign the same colour to the different wavelengths of light. How would I ever know? 

What crashed into Jupiter, I remember shoemaker levey 9 smashed into Jupiter, was there anything bigger in the past, like a planet? Perhaps a planet smashed into Jupiter. Of we had more planets but some of them cascaded into the sun because their orbit was disturbed. 

How big is the universe, is it finite, or never ending. If it is finite, what happens when your leave the universe? 

Christmas thought

Christmas is a time of peace and reflection. One thing I was thinking about during Christmas is what my ancestors were like.

All non inbred people on this planet have 2 parents, 4 grandparents and 8 great grandparents that are their ancestors.
That means 14 people contributed to the DNA of one person in just 3 generations.
I wonder what all those people were like. When you think about it. The family tree of every person is very big.  Every person on this planet has many ancestors and most of them are a mystery.

I have 16 great great grandparents. They all have personalities and stories. So many ancestors, so many story's and so much to learn about. Life is such a mystery.