No, You Can't Touch the Sky

               The sky is the limit, so close you can touch the sky. Well actually no you can’t. This is a very pessimistic thing for me to say but I was having this conversation earlier today with someone and I found it kind of interesting even though it is quite simple. The sky is not the limit. There is no limit. The sky is not a barrier or wall separating the world from space. It’s just the atmosphere that slowly gets thinner until it reaches space. So the limit is wherever space ends. But nobody knows where space ends. As far as we know it just goes on forever! Plus humans have made it far beyond the sky making that saying false anyway.

                The sky isn’t necessarily something you can touch. Yes, I know it’s a metaphor to make a point about how high of an attitude a person is at, but still it doesn’t make sense. In my opinion we are always touching the sky. We are surrounded by air, always in contact with it, because it is made up of gasses. The gases are part of the atmosphere, which is the sky so we really don’t need to go very high to touch the sky. It might seem like a solid blue thing, but it’s just the color the atmosphere reflects back at us.