Timeline

I’ve always been interested in astronomy, so occasionally something happens to make me think about how vast the universe is, and wonder what some other highly advanced civilization would think of our simple technology. When you sit in your backyard in the evening and look up at the stars realizing that the light from that star over there to the left has been traveling toward earth for several million years, it provides you with a frame of reference.

Then the phone rings and you go inside and discover that your daughter has left the cordless phone upstairs again and you have to run to another room to answer it. It makes me smile to think what a short time these "gadgets" have been in existence here on earth and how much we have to look forward to.