Spending last few hours of the weekend before dragging your sorry ass off to work on Monday morning is a de facto modern life for the most living in the city. Today while flicking through Netflix, I ran into a doco about making of space ships and all the technical marvels involved. The narrator was unblemishingly showcasing how complicated it is to maintain the living condition inside the ship for astronauts once it is in the space, hanging hundreds of kilometres above Earth. All the air that has to be manufactured there, the water systems, the plumbing, the air pressure and communicaitons, protection from the heat and cold, harmful rays, travelling space debris and meteorites. It sounded quite a miracle such a thing could be made by humans, quite and achivement!
Then something hit me, forcing me to look up and stare at the ceiling. The earth has been providing this, almost effortlessly, for billions of years, for billions and trillions of creatures who come and go. Enough said, mother nature.
Ravi Tandukar 