Looks like space is going to be more than McDonalds, borscht, and Dim Sum. We may only be a few years away from the first Persian in space:
Iranian Space Program
I am in Tokyo and it is a little past 5am. It's a little past 1pm in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles -8GMT
Tokyo +9GMT
5am in Tokyo is one hour brighter than 5am in Los Angeles at this time of the year. Regardless, we all more or less know what 5am and 1pm feel like, and 1pm in Tokyo can be as miserable as 1pm in Los Angeles. 5pm rush hour looks...
On Thursday, NASA held a press conference to announce that the recent TEGA experiment on board Phoenix had confirmed the presence of water in the Martian soil. Whist exciting, Phoenix scientists were expecting that result. However, behind the scenes, something else was being discussed and it had little to do with melting water…
via...
"Sync"
by Steven H. Strogatz
Topic: coupled oscillators, applied math
Tonight the Beijing Olympic games (um... 2008) have opened with a huge bass of square drums made of bronze and wood that covered the central stadium. Each drum would glow when hit by a dedicated person, a drummer, or artist standing next. The performance was...
The discovery of an organizational hyper-structure whose hierarchical contour defies our normal abstracting ability - (and yet can be detected by a colossal metaabstraction reported by Plato and surnamed by him Noesis) is a matter of unparalleled importance, for this hyper-structure seems able progressively more and more to subsume its...
A while ago I began to question everything that was emerging as common ground within our/my generation.
We are all special, unique, hypocrites and most importantly always right. We are the exception to every rule, powerful but helpless and insecure. The internet has created grounds for multi-faceted identity like never before and its ability...
Your average 'alternative' 'underground' 'cult' summer booklist will name conservative corkers like William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Hubert S. Selby or Brett Easton Ellis. A 'real' underground list might add snotty punk-fashionistas like Stewart Home or Henry Rollins. But if you have read...
Just my thoughts at the moment. I'll probable re-write this at a later date but for now here it is. My attempt at defining reality.
Man shapes his own reality, every man interprets what is real to him and what isn't. Similar to how some animals can only see certain colors, or have different eye physiologies. So the world is different from each...
On and on does the lattice grow, information flows, and our minds converge, into a single, fiercely independent, decidedly autonomous, highly intelligent, and self-propelling emergent metaverse, the infoverse.
The infoverse is where we will live. And we need a home. A mutually supportive habitat of sorts; A mind habitat, an infotat for our...
Surely many of you are familiar with this conspiracy. Tied in closely with The Bilderberg Group, skull and bones, the UN, trilateral commission, world wide governments and mass slavery. If you don't then you should probably get onto youtube right away...
While much of it is speculation; as any one lucky enough to get in doesn't seem stupid...