Let me gather a few thoughts, based on a recent rereading of Arthur C. Clarke’s Songs of Distant Earth (1985). This is proper science-fiction i.e. no woo-woo involved, based on hard science, which...
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Let me gather a few thoughts, based on a recent rereading of Arthur C. Clarke’s Songs of Distant Earth (1985). This is proper science-fiction i.e. no woo-woo involved, based on hard science, which...
This practice is not restricted to the UK. The rationale seems to be stability plus celebrity. Over a hundred years ago, the philosopher Henri Bergson noted progressive states of aphasia as being...
Thank you Orph. Obviously I am not condoning any sadistic behaviour of the kind you are suggesting. But take a sports champion or a virtuoso musician: what you see is the perfection of many hours and...
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I know this is off topic (namely the climber), but let me tell you what is wrong with this video. I have driven the same ordinary road hundreds of times and have got into...
Yes, E sounds about right. I’d always put it down to smoggy airwaves...
Let me disagree with Wittgenstein, if I may. The French word ‘peine’ means both grief/pain and effort. The closest English has is ‘bother’: you bother yourself, it causes bother. So why bother?...
Sure Mashika, but there is another side to all this. Eating with a knife and fork is one example of social etiquette which the upper classes take very seriously; it is their way of conforming to...
Turmoil in the turmoil : a collective brainstorm
Turmoil in China, Turmoil in the UK, Turmoil here, there and everywhere: there is great deal of possibly involuntary rubbernecking going on on this...
It is good to see you affirm this positive attitude, Onawah, something that is perhaps not always clear from your diligent repostings in this field. Why this is important is because we are obviously...
Well, my post clearly suggests that it would be against their will. But for many except the most hardened cases, it would be rather ‘without their prior consent’, meaning, to quote an earlier phrase,...
I have been reflecting further on how a simple treatment of individuals with a ‘heart-wall’ might be scaled up to the global population. But before coming to that, I want to insist on the way these...
Sorry, Onawah, my mistake: ‘conquistadors’ would be exactly wrong. If we are talking about ‘reptilians’ (and I suppose we are), then the man-eaters on that occasion were the Aztec gods greedy for...
DNA expresses the need for antidepressants after reading post 1552; I shall leave that to Dr Ryan. However, my post 1557 ought to provide at least a little relief, because it suggests a way forward,...
Lots of questions yes. And a dearth of answers: let’s find some. The beauty of Kim Stanley Robinson’s blockbuster novel (‘It'd make a great movie.’) is that he takes the myriad things generally known...
While I have by no means read all the material on this subject, here are my two cents. Breakaway civilizations are all well and good, but they pose a huge logistical problem which I do not see being...
Interesting – these alignments viewed from multiple perspectives sound like a solar system-based astrology. I wonder what conventional earthbased astrology has to say.
Thank you Doug for this thread and for regularly drawing attention to the elephant of ambiguity in the room ; and thanks to Bill, you brought up a post I’d totally forgotten I’d made. I have been...
Reds are Republicans in the US, everywhere else they are Socialo-Communists! And the blues are the conservatives/royalists. Upside down sounds about right.
John Dee was pretty smart in adjusting to the way the wind was blowing. One day the queen was Catholic, the next she wasn’t, and he survived martyrdom twice over because he knew whose side he was on...
I hear you Spiral, thanks for that. Let’s see where I can take this.
What this forum is about, unless I’m mistaken is action from ‘the earnest & honest’ ‘who understand the game’. I know, I have...