COMEDY Poem: Space, by Christopher O’Herren

Hey there one and all
Welcome back
To the warmly lit space
Of our learning nook

So take a seat
Get comfortable
Allow yourself some peace of mind
Because today
We will be talking about something
Enormous
And it may take some explaining
Here or there
Just to contemplate the gandure
Of the cosmos
That’s right friend today we will be talking
About outer space.
So sit back relax, and enjoy our programming
On space

Space is an endlessly expanding void
And we’re all going to die in it.

Alright, we are going to take a break now
Ponder what we’ve learned
Maybe grab yourself a tea, or other bevrage
If you have a friend nearby
Maybe ask them how they are doing
Take your time
We are in no rush

When you are all ready
We can pick back up

Here’s an interesting fact
Did you know

that when stars run out of fuel
They burst big waves
Of gamma radiation?
And that if that were to happen
And that radiation were to hit the planet
It could destroy the ozone layer
That thick layer of gas
Protecting us from our own sun
And since the distance required
For this hypothetical
Is only 3,000 light-years away
It may already happen
And the gamma rays
Are still on their way now.
We are now going to take our second break
This time maybe you could enjoy
A nice song you like
Or think about
Some of your favorite things
For me personally
I like mint chip ice cream
Especially the kind from my local ice cream store
It reminds me of those days
Where it was just me
And a few of my friends
Enjoying ice cream
And talking about
Whatever
Glad to have you back.

Let’s talk about plancks

No, I don’t mean boards of wood
I mean, like the measurement
In fact, it’s the smallest measurement of length
That is
for now anyway.

To put in perspective how small that is
Imagine how much shrinking
A microscope would have to do
In order to see an atom.

It’s a lot of work.
Well, in order to see a Planck
You’d need to triple the zoom.
Of that atomic microscope

And supposedly
Scientists believe that in the center
Of a black whole
May lie a star the size of a planck
Imagine all that mass
More than the entire Earth
More than Jupiter
More than even our own sun
And the bonds that keep
Those electrons and protons
From hitting each other
Just being crushed
Into a point 3 times smaller
Then a single atom

And before this theory
They thought it would be a singularity.
Which means that they thought
That it was not only smaller
Than a planck
But that it would also be
All contained within
One
Singular
Point
As in the smallest something could feasibly be

Well, that’s all the time we have left
I hoped you enjoyed our time together
I’m going to stare out the window now
And think about our own igsignifigance