IN THE STAR TREK'S WORLD THE MANKIND IS FINALLY GONE BEYOND HUNGER, POVERTY, WARS (AT LEAST AMONG HUMANS), AND INEQUALITIES. WE ARE NOW ABLE TO DEVELOP ALL OUR POTENTIAL! CHARACTERS LIKE THE MYTHICAL CAPTAIN KIRK OR CAPTAIN PICARD AND THEIR ADVENTUROUS LIFES ARE THE EMBODIMENT OF THE HOMERIC AND DANTEAN ODYSSEUS: "FATTI NON FOSTE PER VIVER COME BRUTI, MA PER SEGUIR VIRTUTE E CONOSCENZA", WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE! = YOU AREN'T BORN TO LIVE LIKE BEAST, BUT TO SEEK OUT VIRTUE AND KNOWLEDGE!

Now, my Dear Visitor, I wanna spend few words about my favorite sciencefiction, Star Trek! In my opinion this series represents what human kind could realized, if we could finally keep steady in our mind that we have to be united and cooperate, for building a better world for all of us. So, don’t forget: we can improve ourselves, our life, and the conditions of the other people: we need only, even if it is not a simple thing, to pass some kind of test, to discover after lot of wandering, that united we can be better. I'm sure we have this chance, cuz we got the scientific method and the ability to survive winning the challenges of life in our Planet. Star Trek give us a deep simple message, in addition to be a very well done art work. You can depends on The Next Generation, my fave series ever: sometimes I like to empathize with the Captain Picard character, the thoughtful captain, or the Commander Data, an android who want to become more human! In all fairness I tend to appreciate almost all the episodes, starting from the Original Series with the mythical James T. Kirk to the more recent spin-offs Deep Space 9 and Voyager. I really hope you are curious to hear some of my thoughts about death, religion and destiny. Sooner or later in everybody’s life will pop up a series of interesting and difficult questions. Up to date I can’t consider myself a believer in any classic religion, even if I leaned to distrust too much radical statements. Religion derives from the ancient Latin "re-ligare"= “to be tied by something or somebody”. Often I perceive religion as a kind of restraint to our potentialities. What I mean is that sometimes we’re offered a too simplistic answer to the fundamental and essential question: "What is the Thruth about us and about our Universe, about our own role in this World of galaxies and space, time and matter?" A quick answer could be: the Creation explains everything! Personally I regard as more commendable and humble the Modern Science approach to the reality. Since Galileo and many others after him have introduced the fundamental notion of experiment, things are working better, even if w/ some drawbacks. Mainly, but not exclusively thru the glasses of the Science, we can reach a better understanding of many mysteries that surround us. Mainly, but not exclusively, because our World, our life, ourselves are kind of evasive, enigmatic, and obscure sometimes: perhaps this is the beautiful aspect of all. By the way I agree with Charles Darwin and his thoughts in "The Origin of the Species": his scientific theory, until proved otherwise, explains a lot of the life’s dynamics. I like the idea of religion suggested by Albert Einstein too, when he goes back to the Spanish philosopher Spinoza: in his opinion God is the order that we see permeating our Universe, at any level of complexity. How can we answer to the fear of die? We have already a way to seek immortality, a gift courtesy provided by "Mother Nature": we can breed, and transmit to our descendants our genetic and cultural message. Maybe we don’t need to care about our existence after death, cuz we have already an answer. This is the the simple and simultaneously complicated way created by an Evolutionary process on Planet Earth. But what is really peculiar of any human being is that we can transmit to the future generations our thoughts, memories, inner ideas and beliefs. We have "free will", but the matter is dominated by not accidental Physics Laws, even if you wouldn’t think this once you are familiar w/ the subatomic world of quanta: This is the real challenge to the human comprehension and knowledge: how is possible that from seemingly chaotic subatomic particles we can arrive to the human consciousness? How in conclusion the Universe succeeds to be aware and conscious of his/its existence? What is the mystery of the Life? It's up to us try to find an answer. Undoubtedly science could help, but keeping always in mind that at the bottom of our choice, we act so irrationally and arbitrarily. I like to end my thoughts citing from the C. Sagan novel-based movie “Contact”. An alien creature referring to the mankind told the protagonist, Ellie : You are capable of such wonderful dreams, but also terrible nightmares. And you feel so alone, searching for answers to pressing questions. But you are not alone! This remind me the value of Space exploration: Space is the last Frontier of Science. For a better understanding of our Universe and of ourselves, we need to go outside and take new comparisons and perspective. Star Trek inculcate and insinuate such attitude and motivation: amazing stuff is waiting for us just out there. Please, don't hesitate to contact me to discuss issues like these above, ok? Wish you all the best, Dear Visitor! ^_^