Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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^wow...sorry. I hope things look up soon.
Thank you. This mass just needs to finish moving through me.
On my mind this morning is a horrible dream. The old naked at work chestnut. But it just went on and on. And when I’d resolved my pants issue, I’d immediately be without pants again, not that anyone seemed to care. And my pants always seemed to be back in the middle of a very crowded place, a maddening impenetrable crowd.
Had this dream before, but this time a colleague appeared to be having the same issue. Wonder if they had the same dream?
Had this dream before, but this time a colleague appeared to be having the same issue. Wonder if they had the same dream?
^ did it fall in with a bad crowd?
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Inside the Nose of an Elephant
(NY Times Science series is pretty neat--lots of interesting short videos).
(NY Times Science series is pretty neat--lots of interesting short videos).
Prog is great. Not so sure about the jazzy French stuff.
Did you know Ian Anderson released a new album back in 2014 (Homo Erraticus), and has one coming out next year?
Good doco done by the guy who does Rock Family Trees
Prog at the BBC:
Plus on YT there's a 9 part doco called Prog Rock Britannia (abt 90 min long) which I think's pretty good.
And Rick Wakeman presented a doco called 'The Day Pop Went Epic', about concelpt albums. Very cool, and out there somewhere.
I just noticed something about DSC awhile back:
Every computer display on the USS Discovery has a toggle for day / night mode. So far we've only ever seen night mode.
(Apparently the whole ship is also set to BLUE mode.
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Every computer display on the USS Discovery has a toggle for day / night mode. So far we've only ever seen night mode.
(Apparently the whole ship is also set to BLUE mode.
)
(Apparently the whole ship is also set to BLUE mode.
#SciFiTropes
I can’t wait to see how DSC depicts the interior of the Enterprise.
Pretty sure I've just solved the time travel "Paradox".
Suppose backward time travel were possible (which all known evidence points against), if you combine it with the "Infinite Universes" theory that says that each decision you (or anyone or anything) creates a new, parallel universe, the idea that going back in time and killing your own grandmother before you were born or stepping on a bug millions of years ago therefore wiping humanity from existence no longer creates a paradox. The moment you committed one of those acts you've created a new, parallel universe. You still exist in the universe you left, the one in which these things did not happen, you just now also exist in a universe that you would not have existed in. You've created and traveled to a universe that would not have existed without you.
No more paradox.
Suppose backward time travel were possible (which all known evidence points against), if you combine it with the "Infinite Universes" theory that says that each decision you (or anyone or anything) creates a new, parallel universe, the idea that going back in time and killing your own grandmother before you were born or stepping on a bug millions of years ago therefore wiping humanity from existence no longer creates a paradox. The moment you committed one of those acts you've created a new, parallel universe. You still exist in the universe you left, the one in which these things did not happen, you just now also exist in a universe that you would not have existed in. You've created and traveled to a universe that would not have existed without you.
No more paradox.
It's been pointed out to me that this has been brought up somewhere in the more recent Planet of the Apes movies (which I have not seen) and someone also said something to the effect of that this is exactly how it was explained in Back to the Future (which I don't remember), so I apologize. I've solved nothing.
I’ve seen the ‘You go back in time into another universe’ used really well (If you have read the webcomic Faans) but it doesn’t work for most sci-fi. Most sci-fi has people disappearing if the past changes.
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