hallelujah.

May 20, 2012 1 note

yesterday, may 19th. 140 days into the year.
i traveled by bus with some friends and watched jet pilots try to pull 7 times the force of gravity in tiny metal capsules powered by internal combustion engines and calculated aerodynamic thrust. the force of gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared. most of the jet pilots i saw had over 1,000 hours of flying experience. their routines ranged from about 45 minutes to an hour and a half. sometimes things go wrong. there were 117 aviation accidents in 2011. sometimes those same planes drop bombs that kill people thousands of miles away.
i looked up at the sun a few times and eventually turned bright red. the sun weighs 1,989,881,989,610,210,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms and stays afloat in space somehow, i don’t know how. it floats 93 million miles away and has an average temperature of 27 million degrees fahrenheit. the temperature today reached a high of 83 degrees.
one of the songs played over the loudspeakers was an instrumental track of eminem’s “lose yourself”. eminem’s net worth in 2012 was estimated at $120 million. the cost of raising a child to age 18 in 2012 is upwards of $295,000. the average household income in washington dc, where i live, is $106,000 per year. last week i made $41.84.
i went upstairs at 9:15 pm and tried to go to sleep. doctors recommend at least 8 hours per night. the human circadian rhythm is regulated by electrical processes in the brain reacting to changes in light which produces chemicals that put you to sleep. electrical synapses fire at the speed of 10 raised to the 16th power per second. when i finally doze off, sleep cycles usually repeat every 90 minutes. sometimes i lay awake for hours.

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