This has got to be one of the cutest things I’ve seen online lately. Come on, what can top dancing babies? I’ve read some other people’s posts, and they all seem to be pretty doom and gloom, so I thought you could all use a little cheering up. Please notice how the twins look at a each other as if to say, “You ready?” before beginning their synchronized head bobbing. If the combination of twin babies, guitar music, and dancing doesn’t brighten up your day, please ask your cardiologist to check that you’ve still got a heart.
Unlike the first three posts under Blog Post #2, I haven’t seen anything extraordinarily great or terrible this week. I tend not to spend my time browsing through random things on the internet. However, I did come across something interesting. Astronomers had recently discovered simple sugar molecules (Glycoaldehyde) in the gases floating around a star 400 light-years away. This was not the first discovery of sugar in space, but it is the first time a star with sugar molecules is so close to a “sunlike star.” Scientists believe that the simple sugar molecule composed of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen is a fundamental component of an organism’s RNA (which is part of the DNA). It is evidence that life can exist elsewhere in the universe, even if the fact has not been confirmed.
I was fascinated by this, mainly because I had recently watched a series (fiction) that questioned our firmly held belief that the things we have no evidence of or that we cannot see cannot exist simply because there is nothing to back them up. For example, if a person yells out “Aliens exist!” in the middle of the street, everyone would think that he is either brain damaged or just another lunatic roaming the streets. Why do we restrain ourselves from believing in extraterrestrial beings? Because we have no solid evidence that they exist. But for those who simply speak the truth, those who are Aliens themselves, there is no need to fervently seek proof to accept that extraterrestrial beings exist.
If we ever have the proofs that alien existence, I imagine many people would be confused and frightened because the natural order of their world would be shattered – a world build upon the foundations of previous generations where we are the only living creatures in this galaxy. I can’t wait for that to happen. What better way is there to remove ourselves from this ridiculous global economic struggle, where every country is in debt to every other country, than to focus that attention in outer space programs?
Thankfully I can’t post the link to one of the most horrific things I’ve seen in a very long time because it was reported and blocked on Facebook. This Friday, on his way to a sweet sixteen a young man was involved in an accident that cost him his life. His friends and family resorted to Facebook, Twitter and other social networking cites to express their grief and sorrow, support and hope to overcome this tragedy. Reading through all these posts I could almost feel the pain that all these people were experiencing. However, in the midst of all this positivity I stumbled upon maybe one of the meanest pages I’ve ever seen.
There on Facebook, for the whole world to see, grieving family, friends, strangers, appeared a hate page. A page dedicated to mocking this young man, expressing their distaste for his attitude, the way he treated certain people and almost implying that he deserved what he got. I am very well aware that most not everyone is going to like you out there. You might be a really nice person but sometimes, for some reason, you might rub someone the wrong way and they won’t be your biggest fans. I think its normal, it happens, and in most cases, there’s nothing gravely wrong with it. However, there is no way that these things should be expressed after someone has passed away. If they couldn’t say these things when he was alive, there is no reason that they should say it after he died. If they didn’t like him, fine. Be civil. Be respectful. Follow the age old “If you have nothing nice to say don’t say it at all.”
I have no idea why anyone would ever even think of creating such a page. Let alone write the things that they did. Do people no longer have respect for the dead? Bullying kids over the Internet to the point of suicide in some cases isn’t enough for the adolescence of today so they resort to poking fun at someone who isn’t here with us anymore? They couldn’t say these things to him while he was still amongst us but for some reason it’s suddenly okay to say them when he’s dead? Before I got angry, I felt so sorry for his friends and family. Here they are in the midst of horrible loss and now they have to face hundreds of negative comments regarding their loved one. I was speechless to say the least. To this moment I can’t fathom how or why this page was created to begin with. I can’t believe how many people actually went on it to comment and add fuel to the fire. (This is when I started getting angry) It was heartless, rude, disgusting, mean and many other things.
Dozens of people, strangers in many cases responded to this page and expressed my same opinions regarding the situation through Tweets and status updates acquiring 40, 50, 60 likes, favorites, retweets. That was probably the only positive thing that came from this page. Seeing the existence of the page made me just about lose hope for our youth completely but seeing the backlash of strangers raised my spirits a little. I was glad to see that not all of us are heartless, disrespectful idiots hiding behind computer screens magnifying the grief of already distraught i