You may have noticed that a lot of people are shooting off rockets tonight. Please do not regard this as a hostile gesture. It’s something people do once a year.
A year is the time it takes the Earth to go around the sun. You’ve probably already got that calculated. Also, I’m sure you’ve already noticed that the Earth has a spin, and that there are 365 rotations per once around the sun.
So, we’re at precisely the same point in our orbit that we were this time last year. We call it New Year’s Eve. In addition to shooting off rockets, lots of humans go out and get blind drunk, like totally shnockered, on beverages with a high content of alcohol, which damages brain cells. It may sound really stupid, but it’s lots of fun.
People have been doing that for thousands of years, probably going back to before we were human. Proof of that is the fact that some other species, elephants for example, but also various simians, who are closely related to us – same branch of the evolutionary tree, so to speak, do the same thing.
So either it’s very deeply embedded in our nature, or we haven’t evolved beyond it yet. Do you use any artificial stimulants like that just for fun? Because if you do, we’ve got a lot in common and there’s a whole mess of them here on Earth to sample.
If you don’t (maybe you’re permanently locked in a species-wide orgiastic mind meld, I don’t know because you are, as I’ve said before, light years ahead of us), then that’s O.K., too.
Anyway, have a Happy New Year. Because if you’re happy, we’re happy.
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