The Flying Ship

The Flying Ship

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Blindonians And Earthlings

I believe that the universe is far more complicated than can be observed by simply looking at it with our mere five senses.

Imagine a planet, let us call it... "Blind". It is surrounded by a permanent dust cloud, or maybe its sun is a black hole, or maybe it has a very thick atmosphere. Heat reaches it, but no light penetrates the planet's surface. The creatures that live there have no eyes because they have no purpose for them. They still hear, smell/taste, feel, and think as we do, but they simply have no vision. Instead, they evolved a sense of magnetic perception, similar to that of sharks, by which the mammals of the planet can find their prey and recognize their peers.

By happenstance, Human Earthlings and The Blindonians send radio signals to each other. The two species decide to meet on a planet that can be considered no man's land.

They both breath oxygen, and are able, even, to hear sounds that are the same. Thus communication is possible. The steel spaceships of the Earthlings are easily felt by the Blindonians' magnetic sense, and the strange coloured hulls of the ceramic craft of the Blindonians are a point of notice to the Earthlings. Yet try as they might, the Earthlings cannot convey colour to the Blindonians, and the Blindonians cannot make the Earthlings understand magnetic resonance distinction.

The point of my story is that, there are many complicated ways of looking at our universe. Who knows what other forces we are blind to?

Assuming that things only exist if we can see them is a foolish thing to do. But trying to find things that are impossible for us to comprehend could be said to be foolish too.

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