Reading an article in the Economist, about more work done on the fermi paradox (that the galaxy should be teeming with civilisations so why isn’t it), and i got musing again about interstellar travel. If we view the galaxy as being innately fertile, as i do, then the flowering of intelligence would be as necessary … Read more
Attended a really interesting talk last week, the ANU’s Jager Hales lecture which this year was given by Professor Edouard Bard (Collège de France & CEREGE Univ. Aix-Marseille, France) about the end of the last ice age, where from about 18,000 to 10,000 years ago the Earth slowly thawed out. It wasn’t a process that … Read more
Having a coffee before my first Earth sciences lecture, I watch some workman cutting up bike racks with a battery powered angle grinder and hacksaw. The sulphry burnt smell of the blade cutting through steel reminds me of dad’s workshop and the pipe saw, a strangely pleasant smoke I have inhaled since earliest memory, awash … Read more
it’s taken me a few days to get to the point where i feel i can get all this down. you know i used to often think ‘nobody knows what’s going on’. it’s a conceited idea, i admit, but i do still believe it, in a way. i suppose what has changed since then is … Read more
In recent posts I have mused on new mental techniques like ‘pistons’ in the mind, and also on the mind experiencing time as dimension(s) beyond the three of the material world. I’m going to work these ideas together here a little more. Lets conduct an experiment. We are sealed in a room, without windows or … Read more
I came across this sweet little southern gem, designated X-TrA last night when fooling around in the vicinity. Held my son, Rowan, up to the eyepiece to have a look too. It’s 1500 light years away but the perfect clear dark sky and very high elevation brought it closer to us last night. Nearly the … Read more
i have in mind a new kind of religion that explains everything. i’m certain that i will get it all right this time. there is an opening salvo on my wardrobe blog. the eternal play of light and dark, matter and spirit, is just the interaction of the finite and the infinite. i call finite … Read more
I have had lots of ideas flowing freely through my head of late but I haven’t had time to get them all down. Time is the limiter, flattening the peaks of our imagination. I have also been music processing lately, and had an insight into how compression is the bowl to the porridge of sound recording. … Read more
Good to read the article in the telegraph about the prohibition of pot coming to an end. I do hope that pot becomes legal, it is such an peaceful drug. Update: and coming from the other side, today I read an article in the Conversation calling for a ban on tobacco in Australia. Two smokable … Read more
St valentines day, how exciting. A new mood for the planet for a day. We are all lovers with each other. A skipping rope fillip from google. Except, some of us are picky. I wonder what soulmates are, perhaps just an illusion, collusion, allusion, alluria. I write about lovers but i have never had any. … Read more
