Gravity free flight... but what is the couple doing in the lower right corner?
Life’s rules are setup already. We’re playing by the rules – we don’t have a choice in the rules I’m talking about.
Gravity, our dependence on oxygen, a range of temperatures we can exist within… things like that. Those things aren’t changing. They aren’t able to change. We can adapt by doing things to counter them temporarily, but, when we pop out of the womb we’re at odds with so many rules that have already been mandated.
One such rule… is gravity.
I don’t know how much anybody has really looked into it – but, gravity is a serious bitch to live with. Should we have it at all? That’s to be debated in another post. For now let’s just observe what a better way of going about gravity might have been.
Gravity affects everything the same way. Everything is pulled to the earth at the rate of 9.8 meters per second per second. That’s the acceleration of gravity. We call the pull of gravity, 1g force. When you hit an Oak tree in your car you’ll experience some amount of g’s as your face hits the windshield, chest hits the steering wheel. The front of your car experienced a higher number of g’s than did your face because the metal between you and the front cushioned you from some of the g’s.
On the moon the rate of gravity is said to be about 1/6th what it is here on earth. Man landed on the moon, walked on the moon, and there are rocks all over the moon. Everything is still held down by that force of gravity which I’ll call 1mg (moon gravity).
I’ll come back to this…
Gravity is a bitch, as I said earlier. Why is gravity a bitch?
- It affects things of larger mass more.
- It is inescapable here on earth. We’ve tried but we don’t even know what gravity IS, we can’t possibly figure out how to avoid it except by sending planes diving at the rate of 9.8 meters per second per second so the occupants can temporarily experience zero g’s.
- When mass is gained – gravity pulls at more of it. Meaning, when the body gets bigger – more weight the person needs to fight against to do anything.
- Gravity can kill you as a result of a fall from just 6 feet if you happen to fall on your head.
- Everything we do requires a lot more energy to overcome gravity of 1g than it would to overcome 1mg.
The first question is – Why is gravity so strong?
1g is much stronger than we need on earth to hold us and everything else down on the ground. It’s overkill. Actually we could have 1 moon gravity and be fine. Why don’t we? Gravity is such a bitch because some idiot(s) created the earth with 1g instead of 1mg causing us to use 6 times as much energy to do the things we want to do. This applies to the potential of the earth’s stored energy that we use too – gasoline would be much more effective at 1mg than it is at the current 1g. If an SUV weighed the equivalent of 600 pounds instead of 3,500 pounds then we’d use a lot less gas and pollute the environment a hell of a lot less – agreed?
Batteries to power cars. Windmills. All sorts of energy would be a lot more potent if there was 6 times less gravity to overcome.
Lets go back to humans and how we’re at odds with gravity directly.
An increase in mass leads to a heavier weight as a result of gravity, as I’ve stated.
Humans need to move our bodies against gravity – whether walking to get food, find safety, dick around – or whatever else. When we move our body we’re fighting gravity of 1g.
The human body does not have a static mass. It’s always changing. Some of us have the equivalent of 2 body masses. Scientists say that genetics plays a part in this. I agree – there is some range of weight that is naturally a function of the size of the body, metabolism, and other genetic factors we have no control over. Some of us were really screwed with a bad metabolism and as a result fight with gravity as a major part of their game of life – and eventually succumb to it and die.
Whatever created this earth, gravity, people – screwed those that naturally have a genetic propensity for larger mass.
Myself? I was lucky. My girlfriend? Really lucky. She’s about 95 lbs. and 5′ 1″. A guy I used to work with was farked – he was 6′ 5″, was thin, and had to fight to move 120 more pounds for everything he did – than my girlfriend does.
Why did my co-worker get farked genetically with his size and weight?
As humans gravity is a bitch in conjunction with some other of life’s rules that affect us.
What else besides genetics affects our mass?
Eating, right. We were set up to lose from the start in this area too. Eating is something we find pleasurable. If we eat a lot – until we’re full, we feel good. We killed the hunger craving that is implicit in the human being. Everyone has it. Everyone knows that putting food in the mouth and filling the stomach leads to a calming of the hunger pangs.
Problem is – eating a lot – adds mass. Doing something for your body that is good – eating – can lead to a gain in mass, causing the human to fight harder to go about daily life.
Is it strange that doing something we NEED to do to stay alive can cause a bad situation if we do it too much?
Not really. In fact, that appears to be how much of life is designed.
What about this…
Eating a lot of plain puffed-rice cakes or popcorn you popped without using oil won’t cause you to gain weight. There are few calories. However, eating a lot of chocolate cake which is considered really delicious by most people across the world – leads to a big weight gain and fight against gravity.
Why is life setup like this?
What would you do without gravity?
I don’t really “get it”. Why is life setup against us from the start? There are so many things we have to overcome in order to continue to live that it doesn’t seem like it makes sense that we are supposed to go on fighting to live longer.
In this age we have it quite good, and yet we’re STILL fighting the most basic things like gravity. In the past cavemen or however you want to think of early humans fought sabertooth tigers, tyrannosaurus rex, and other heinous beasts. Many lost loved ones to large birds and other human-eating animals like lions, bear, snakes… don’t forget about them – if you think you have it fine here right now – it’s because you missed the first part of this great game but billions before you died fighting more horrible things than gravity, and gravity too.
I wish whatever started this stupid game would come out from behind the black curtain and get an ass-kicking so I can feel better about it for a few minutes at least.
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