[mkjessup]

Here is a little mental exercise:

Take a magnifying glass, and look at your fingernails.

Now they may be perfectly clean, or they might be dirty, but no matter the condition, you can probably find at least a very tiny speck of dirt underneath one of your nails.

Now imagine how many atoms, with swirling electrons, protons, neutrons, etc., are swirling around within the structure of that little tiny bit of dirt, thousands of them, most likely.

Now picture in your mind our solar system, with the sun and all the planets revolving around the sun, and ponder the similarity between our solar system and one of those insignificant atoms in that speck of dirt under your nail.

Now it's bad enough to torture yourself by wondering whose nail our entire solar system and world might be residing under, but now think about this: how many solar systems and alien worlds with little tiny people, all interconnected electronically, perhaps interacting not unlike we do here on FR, and they're all residing under one of YOUR nails?

Not that I endorse that bizarre view of the universe but it can sure keep you awake at night if you let it. ;)

[Charles Martel]

Now it's bad enough to torture yourself by wondering whose nail our entire solar system and world might be residing under, but now think about this: how many solar systems and alien worlds with little tiny people, all interconnected electronically, perhaps interacting not unlike we do here on FR, and they're all residing under one of YOUR nails?

So, that whole "Noah's Ark" thing... that was just someone's fingernail getting scrubbed during last Saturday night's bath (time being, um, relative)?