Originally posted by Falcon Horus
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What I said... the brain giving you a perfectly good explanation. 
Like seeing animals or shapes in clouds... one of my favorite things to do.
Like seeing animals or shapes in clouds... one of my favorite things to do.
Keeps the brain healthy and creative from falling into depression from total boredom. Obviously the brain goes into creative overdrive at times, but that is how artists are born, grow, and continue expanding that library of amazing details. Ever imagine a flying dragon or land dinosaur with fur? Why make them all reptilian looking only? Add some fur or feathers, and a whole new species is revealed.
Ever hear the expression "the mind is a terrible thing to waste". . . ?
Well, when a creative, especially artistic and talented mind is NOT being destructive or vandalistic or harmful to anyone's health, it can achieve amazing things.
I've seen hundreds of folks stuck in nursing homes, just sitting somewhere in time staring out into space. Some of them are on psychotropic drugs to counteract their (bad) behaviors. Others just mumble away remembering their previous years living with better and/or worse events. For many of them, life is nearing the end of the road, so they merely drift along and let their minds wander. Some people with artistic skills put some of their free time into art and design projects, similar to their old school art/design project days.
If (generic) you had oodles and oodles of free time available, how would you live it?
Better yet, if (generic) you were God, what would you do with all of your amazing talents?
Maybe God got tired of making duplications of cookie cutter type planets, and made some that had swirls and others with straight lines. S/He made textures -- smooth ground foundations vs. rough mountain ranges. How about make some mountains as flat topped canyon drop-off areas both above on land as well as below the ocean waters? Planet after planet in our own solar system, apart from earth, everything else seems to have pot marked craters and frozen nothingness on them. Where was the variety out there? Oh, Saturn has a bunch of rings, but wow! Neptune also has a ring around it, too..!
Mars has an interesting land region that contains a few artistic impressions in actual land formation of life on earth. So, why just do that for MARS only? Why not make a familiar shape, like a Valentine heart and embed that onto the most farthest known planet in earth's own solar system? But why not also move the mineral composition to reveal a "broken heart" as well... spice things up a little bit? That might shock a few simple minded brains back on earth to *think* about how those shapes actually formed into their specific designs on other planets. It would take an amazing amount of probable odds for objects as large as those to just have something coincidentally simply land into the shape or position its shadows appear as.
Without our current technologies, I doubt if these few outer space discoveries would have ever been seen.
When I went to school, the stars in the sky were just there. Maybe other stuff was out there, but well beyond our limited viewing abilities. Yeah, we learned from science and history classes that primitive telescopes theorized about what the rest of the universe looked like. If there were other planets and galaxies. We couldn't see them, until Hubble and other modern telescopes and space probes took pictures of what their instruments captured across the zillion miles of sky. Our sky wasn't just dotted with stars. Some of those very stars were actually whole, entire galaxies, full of more zillions of stars and planets, and maybe E.T. life.
Also, some of the nebulas weren't just blobs of dust and gas clouds, but when colorized with enhanced lens or whatever it is that reads the chemical and mineral content floating around *out there*. Some of these nebulas actually contain shapes or look like objects, which our human minds are familiar with. It was the scientists who named such nebulae with whatever they thought it appeared as.
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Oh, and if you're God, why just make nebulas as explosive blobs of gas and dust? Why not throw a "curve ball" into the standard packaged mix, and make a square or rectangular shaped nebula?
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Yeah, that one threw an atheist for a few loops into "how did *that* happen. I read her puzzled comment, and I just smiled. Why does everything have to fit inside a neat and tidy box for our brains to comprehend *always* on our terms? Maybe that is why these abnormalities exist. To make us think that there are far more details involved in the complexities of our universe, than the level(s) of acceptance our "boxed brain" (or mind) will permit.
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