At 44, just realized that the phrase “The Pot Calling the Kettle Black” is that the pot thinks the kettle is black because the black pot is reflecting off the kettle’s stainless steel surface. Also, It’s (more…)
YOU WILL GO TO THE MOON, or using Libration / Lagrangian Points for Lunar Orbit Colonisation
I just stumbled across this… this is so cool. But, it starts to get WAY cooler… My alma mater CU-Boulder designed plans and schematics for a space station: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19890010809/downloads/19890010809.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19890010809 L1 (more…)
Tracking 2020’s content, what we watched, what we’re queueing up in 2021!
Burnt out moment on content, we’re struggling to find stuff we’re excited about. After S5 of Better Call Saul, we’ll be in some trouble. And movies aren’t a thing… we’ve not been able to find and pick (more…)
“Is there life in the universe” isn’t the same question as “have aliens visited us”, to the extent we should also stop using “UFO” to spontaneously assume “Alien Spacecraft”. COME ON PEOPLE!
Is there life out there? Infinite universe. Yup. Do they exist before us? Not likely, as it takes awhile to evolve. Maybe one go round. Have they not existed yet, and we’ll be long dead when (more…)
The Unpretentiousness of MumbleGore, and the Mandela Effect.
We’ve been watching a LOT of horror films. It seems like a tremendously useful and helpful way to challenge negative energy and anxiety during a pandemic… sort of like, “Oh it could be worse”. Something (more…)
Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 speech from “The Greatest Dictator” is prescient, brutally self-aware, and more relevant than ever.
Again… this is 80 years old, this year of 2020. —— I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone (more…)
Has reality ever started unraveling so fast, you can barely keep up, let alone survive? Well, in these movies, that’s how the “rubber reality” genre works!
edit: this “supergenre”, if that exists, could simply be “this is a list of movies you shouldn’t know anything about prior to watching, aside maybe from their genre”. I recently set out to identify (more…)
Astronomy, Cosmology, & Physics round up, November 2019: Hubble Constant mystery, Moments before the Big Bang, Universe connected by giant structures, Dinosaurs on the other side of the galaxy, Starlink space light pollution, flat or spherical universe?
The Hubble constant: a mystery that keeps getting bigger: Scientists have found a discrepancy in estimates for the rate of expansion of the universe. Why is this and what does it mean? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/02/hubble-constant-mystery-that-keeps-getting-bigger-estimate-rate-expansion-universe-cosmology-cepheid We (more…)
A New World of rationalism, religion, and extremism; Never the ‘tween shall meet.
Future of human race will depend on how we're able to deal w/extremism, cultism, irrationalism, mental illness,& the like.All tied together. — Uncle Fishbits (@UncleFishbits) April 17, 2015 Understand (more…)
The Frontier is Everywhere…. Carl Sagan on Wanderers, and we as Voyagers.
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Voyagers from Santiago Menghini on Vimeo.