Zen Pencils Comics: 33. EDGAR MITCHELL: A global consciousness
Posts tagged cosmos.
camerxn asked: I added the first question to my blog, something simple and broad to break the ice for my followers. Feel free to respond if you'd like :D
RE: Interstellar Travel before 2100?
Oh shit it’s so annoying how short the answer box is. What I was going to type:
Michio Kaku has something to say about this! Although, I forget what, exactly.
According to Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns, we’ll have AI soon enough. So, even if we don’t make it out within the century, there may be a chance that our created intelligences will. If we can somehow experience such an exodus through them, that’d be marvelous enough for me.
My entry for the Fluevog Creative contest. I’d really appreciate it if you’d { click through } to the Fluevog site and press the “Click here if you like this!” link!
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Even as We Float
Olena Shmahalo
An absurd sci-fi short:
Bodiless cosmic explorers must make an anatomical adjustment in order to keep their favorite shoes.
“Even as we floated away incorporeally,
hoping to know the universe…
We couldn’t bear to part
with our Fluevogs!”
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It’s not voting time yet, but if I make it to the final round I’d be really grateful if you’d help re-blog this and vote for me! I’ll be re-posting this, then.
Thank you.
realcleverscience asked: Just a comment: I think many people - including myself - know that the Greeks and others had primitive notions of evolution, but they never discussed probable causes for it. The Islamic quote is interesting precisely bc it seems to touch on natural selection. That said, yeah, the educational system is woefully inadequate.
Certainly, the intellectual prowess of the Greeks hasn’t gone unnoticed…
sort of:
My comment about the educational system… mostly a reaction to the canon of what is passed on — all mostly as singular stories sans connections. At least, that’s been my experience in schools.
This post reminded me that I didn’t even know about Eratosthenes (!) until watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos a few of years ago (well into college), and because Eastern contributions to science & maths, like Al Jahiz’s, are often (largely) ignored. Again, my experience, but also basing that off of similar complaints heard ‘round the web.
As for the Anaximander addition, it was mostly for my own archival/research purposes — I’m interested in abiogenesis and had no idea about him, prior.
re: { Struggle for Existence }, 800’s CE
Thank you, { Art Served }, for featuring the { Time Immersion Cubicle } today!
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The TIC is an immersive, wearable art work inspired by a Japanese koan, ephemerality, and theories about space-time.
Olena Shmahalo, 2009.
On Hugh Everett's "Many Worlds" theory: ›
“…his interpretation is often described in terms of ‘many worlds,’ whereas we believe that ‘many alternative histories of the universe’ is what is really meant. … the many worlds are described as being ‘all equally real,’ whereas we believe it is less confusing to speak of ‘many histories, all treated alike by the theory except for their different probabilities.’ To use [this recommended] language is to address the familiar notion that a given system can have different possible histories, each with its own probability; it is not necessary to become queasy trying to conceive of many ‘parallel universes,’ all equally real.”
Murray Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar, 138
Wright’s Celestial Map of the Universe, 1742
aka
A synopsis of the universe, or, the visible world epitomiz’d / by Thomas Wright of Durham.
{ this }, pieced together.
Also, if you want the ultra-high-res version that might crash/stall your shit (it’s 10k px tall, lossless jpg), that’s { here. } YW.
Pas notre lune.
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The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and its two satellites, M32 and NGC 205, sketched by Jeff Corder using a 6-inch reflector at 30x, July 7, 1973.
David J. Eicher library
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Life drawing.
Wright’s Celestial Map of the Universe, 1742
Thomas Wright was an 18th-Century English astronomer who was credited with being the first to describe the shape of our own Milky Way galaxy.
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OS:
{ high-res }, whole version.
(via scientificillustration)
Steve Gimbel discusses the idea that people love Albert Einstein because he represents the notion of intellectual cosmopolitanism; each of us has a perspective that has some access to insight.
Gimbel is chair of the philosophy department at Gettysburg College. His takes a special approach to teaching ethics, in a fashion designed to encourage open-minded, but rigorous discussion. Gimbel has published nineteen scholarly books, articles, and reviews, and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.TEDxGettysburgCollege - Steve Gimbel - Einstein’s Intellectual Cosmopolitanism (by TEDxTalks)
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
