If you like physics… that alone is enough to start The Expanse. I’m in my little pandemic bubble and echo chamber, so I’ve been watching this show with jaw-dropped amazement, and isolated such that I (more…)
When is it cheating, and when do we transcend humanity?
I was just saying to someone that the internet has made us Matrix-like superheroes with the ability to have ESP and real time upload of information. I appreciate Kurzweil’s optimism (Singularity is (more…)
The way time ends for our human perspective in this universe. We have 2 ways out of here… which do you prefer?
How does time end for humanity? Let’s assume the best case scenario, right? Â We are able to continue our legacy as wanderers, hopping from planet to planet, solar system to system…. and I won’t even (more…)
Spoiler* – Visual metaphors and allegorical subtext within Gravity, with a smattering of science questions!
I felt the story was more about the earth, & this human moment in time, more than just the astronauts’ experience. More about our collective human condition – doomed in peril in space, doomed to die on earth, and coping with that in a way that compels us to survive.
Suffering vs Self Esteem – Aristotle vs Epicurean delights.
I haven’t dug deep on this yet, but, my initial thoughts: a) Aristotle was working out inane philosophical questions that are, literally, being asked by 10 year kids, nowadays. I never thought of him (more…)
A tone to the opposite….
slipping moments, streaming tears an incomprehensible flash of time for our human condition to equate. its difficult to be in the eye of the storm of time, bestill this hardened face as it makes (more…)
Mortality as a rudder to the ship of living
I have had a recurring dream my entire life since a very young age that begs and pulls at my underlying pre-occupation with mortality. It was my job to fly all over the world, part of a legion of samaritans, (more…)