An often recurring discussion on SpaceCollective concerns the limitations of language, typically...

Frantically importing new information and ideas; editing, categorizing, and organizing for...

If we recognize that every society is a petri-dish with a particular set of parameters around which...

If there is one thing I have enjoyed about Space Collective since its inception, it is the polymath...

"We do not really know what the human being truly is today, although our awareness and...

After watching Space Collective from the sideline, I decided to make a post about something that is...

First post in the Space Collective. I hope I don't disappoint as posting some thoughts in this community next to some brilliant people makes one feel very humble. For those not aware of what the Aesthetics of Failure means, and using my own words, I'd describe it as the end result of a failed attempt to produce a desired outcome from a...

How's that "Freedom from Imperialism" thing working out for you?

The Aesthetics of Failure's 10 basic principles: 1. Failure is a shade of beauty born from imperfection - yet is a portrayal of perfection 2. Failure is an involuntary consciousness - as well as a manner of comprehending and apprehending reality 3. Failure is organic - never a deliberate mechanical process or a technical effect alone 4....

Imagine the person you love, someone you have known for decades, someone who has become the very meaning of your life, suddenly, and unexpectedly has a stroke. Their body is crippled to near uselessness, relinquishing them of their dignity. And, having lost the ability to communicate with them, you’re not even sure if their mind is as it was, if...

A list of quotes from many nobel prize winners who hated school, and one quote from one who liked the educational establishment (But he diddled kids). My family line goes back on one branch of teachers. My dad recently became one without knowing that our family in Chile has teachers, teachers, teachers going way back - Teaching is in our blood....

Some interesting books were recently brought to my attention by Carel. In one of them, Barry...

Wubbo Ockels' speech about time and gravity TEDxAmsterdam: Wubbo Ockels from TEDxAmsterdam on...

There are two things which have deeply terrified me in recent science news. The first, as you may have heard, is that a bumper crop of some 32 "new" planets was discovered by a team of European researchers armed with a spectrograph called HARPS, or High Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Searcher. The second is that Israeli scientists...

Last night I asked google, "is the internet over?" This was the response (be warned if...

The Zeitgeist Movement Until last week I’ve never heard about (or didn’t registered) this...

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As provocatively beautiful and fascinating generative art can be (and challenging to any...

In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's...

When I look for things that I find beautiful, it seems that I find myself looking for things that...

The time it takes for sensory input to travel along nerves and get processed by the brains means...

take that mcmansion!

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Every molecule, atom, in our body... is self-interested... is self-aware, and determined as...

I was looking at a map today and an other one of those odd sixth grade questions suddenly hit me:...

I'd just like to quickly apologize for the high concentration of Daft Punk references on this page, for now. I just saw them live last night and am doubly obsessed, if that's even possible. I'm only human, after all. Aside from my musical preferences though, I've been thinking quite a bit about something lately. The show was outdoors....

Dr. Ron Paul, Texas congressman, practicing OB/GYN, and contender for the 2008 GOP nomination, is...

Teleportation will change everything... Most likely it will destroy us. First, energy companies will assassinate the inventor, and keep the schematics under wraps. Second, the government will find a way to get their hands on the blueprints and fund the research of the teleportation usage in combat. Etc... Or we will become the citizens of the...

My fascination with the space beyond began at an early age. I was born and raised in New Mexico, a...

Aeroscraft ML866

"...One of the most intriguing aspects of there being one dimension stacked on another, is...

When deciding what first to post here, there were only a few moments of mental debate before the...

It would be far easier and would require less energy to build new, efficient cities than to attempt to update and solve the problems of the old ones. Future By Design proposes a city that would use the most sophisticated available resources and construction techniques. Its geometrically elegant and efficient circular arrangement will be surrounded...

Bear with me as I ramble through some general thoughts on the upcoming development of us humans... The topic of this project is an interesting one, as it's something we'll probably actually have to deal with within our lifetimes. Something bothers me about the project description from the first line though. What will happen when for the...

Without meaning to enter too far into the realm of religeous discussion I'd like to share this...

Fifty light years away is a GIANT DIAMOND, supposedly the largest in the galaxy, weighing five...

Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book. I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list, and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page of my first recommendation. It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Many people, when they see an immense...

is it beastiality? is it 'love' making if the other sentient being does not have the same...

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Ah yes, the soul. One of the most difficult aspects of the human being to be defined, and thus confined, into wording understandable by even the most prodigious scientists and philosophers. And yet, millions of people firmly believe in its existence, though there has been little proof in recorded history of empirical evidence suggesting its...

[UPDATE: Part II has now been posted.] I have some ideas in need of coalescence, in need of the...

Zero Emissions No Noise...and you can fit 12 cases of beer in the back. I'm proud to be a...

The problem of course “is” the word “IS” If “is” “is not” then what...

In this article, space colonization visionary Gerard O'Neil, describes Solar Power Satellites in a...

In my growing fascination in outer space I've decided I want to visit a lot of observatories...