Show me an Angel.

Some people believe in aliens while many others believe in angels. But I found out that most of those that don’t believe in aliens think that angels exist. Then, I ask myself: “are angels of this world?” No, they are not. They merely visit and, afterwards, go back to their world. So, why can’t I call an angel an alien?

One more thing, since angels, from ancient time, have been pictured as wielding fiery swords and wearing body armours that resemble those of ancient roman soldiers; I consider picturing them, for modern time’s sake, as armed with M4A1or my favourite P90 and wearing Kevlar flak jackets. I may leave the wings if they are part of their angelhood. If not, I’ll suit them up with something very techie --- a rocket pack. I won’t forget the halos. It’s very important in my religion to place a halo over an angel’s head.

The Modern Angel as I picture him.

#Angel.

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Why Little Drops of Water won’t make a Mighty Ocean.

It is true that some big things have small beginnings. That is why people say: “little drops of water make a mighty ocean”. But have you wondered, if an ocean can be formed from drops of water, how long it will take? Probably, centuries, right? Or a couple of millenniums. I guess you don’t really know.

As you know, our planet has five oceans, each having a volume different from the other, but it is generally accepted that an ocean contains between 1.3 to 1.5 billion cubic kilometres of salt water. Then, let’s take the volume of our ocean as 1.4 billion Km³. Meanwhile, a drop of water is 0.05 mL in volume. Assuming water is collected at a drop-per-second, which is 0.05 mL per second. Then, in a whole day we will get 4,320 mL of water and after 365 days (i.e. 1 year) we must have gotten 1,576,800 mL --- just a mere 1.5768 cubic meter.

Now, let’s speed things up by determining the quantity of water that will be collected after a century. That is: 100 ӿ 1.577 m³ to give 157.7 m³. This is not enough, especially when you are dealing with a billion cubic kilometres and more. Ok. Say you manage to travel in time to a millennium in the future; you’ll discover that our grand project has grown to 1,577 Km³. But nobody lives for a thousand years.

Let’s say you plan to “live forever” then you’ll live to see your little drops of water make an ocean after 887,761 millenniums. So, lemme ask you. Are you willing to allow that your great plan to last for this long before it’s accomplished? I don’t think so.