‘Lovestruck’ – The be all and end all

All around you you will see love. In the street, on the television, at the airport or even in the cafe.  We just love to love. The way it makes us feel and think. Is there a reason that we are all addicted to love? Like a drug that is never made illegal. We just cannot seem to help ourselves. We stumble through life on the look out for that one person to complete us.

Through tears and sorrow we rise up and get back out there. Usually going through the whole damned experience again. But why do we constantly feel the need to break our own hearts time and time again. Are we genetically crafted to feel hurt until we find ‘the one’?

Whilst we all have our lives to lead and jobs to do, love will always be there. Waiting in the shadows, a constant reminder that we will one day need to hunt. Hunt for the commitment of another. Is it the be all and end all? Well yes. If we are to survive, we have to create. Whether that be in a loving relationship or not we are genetically programmed to reproduce. With that will come love. The love of a child.

Love is all around, without it in some for another we would be weak. After all in our deepest darkest moments, someone somewhere in some form loves us. A partner, child or friend. Love is the be all and end all.

Martians On Mars? Nah, Probably Not

The idea that the legend of Martians on Mars is actually true has taken a further blow as the building blocks of life, which are present on the red planet, did not actually come from any life forms. Granted, it was a long shot in the beginning, but it’s nice to have a little bit of faith in these things. It allows us to make lots of bad Sci-Fi films.

Martian
Exhibit A

Anyway, the journal Science published its findings about the building blocks of life on Mars. Carbon is required for life on the red planet, the green planet, our planet, and any other planet that hopes to support life as its the main organic molecule that makes up practically everything. If you’ve ever taken a class in chemistry then you’ll realise just how often carbon pops up.

The scientists from Washington D.C. who ran their research from the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered that Mars actually has lots of reduced carbon. Reduced carbon is actually a different form of carbon. To put it simply, reduced carbon is a molecule that’s bonded either to a hydrogen atom or to itself. I’m not going to go into exactly how bonds work or anything, the point is that these are much smaller molecules as carbon normally has four bonds to utilise.

Ok, we’ve answered that. But does it answer the claims by geeks all around the world that Martians on Mars isn’t just a fantasy? In a way it does as this carbon was found to have been produced by volcanic activity. And that’s certainly possible since Mars has the largest known volcano around. On a side note, to give you a sense of scale of Olympus Mons (latin for Mount Olympus) it’s nearly three times the size of Mount Everest when it’s above ground level. Furthermore, it has a large moat surrounding its base that’s thought to be there due to its weight pressing down on the surface of the planet. But the truth is that there are other smaller volcanoes on the red planet as well.

Mount Olympus
That's the volcano.

It doesn’t mean to say that life on Mars doesn’t exist as this is only a small sample, but it does hit that myth and reduce its credibility significantly. What this research does mean, though, is that there could have been life on Mars at some point. It also tells us that life could exist on Mars in the future. And that’s something to be happy about as it’s always been one of those space possibilities of tomorrow.

Truth

People will always believe the rumours,
People will always believe the lies,
Take comfort that your true friends will know the truth,
Get on with your life and always smile,
Do not ever let the people get you down,
Your better than them for ignoring it,
They won’t ask for truth as they just care about gossip,
The people that make the stories never thrive,
They have no life beyond tales and fabrications,
They do not realise this will make u stronger,
Eventually if not right now,
At some point the truth will come out,
They are the weak ones for believing it.©