Thanks, guys, for provoking me into thinking. I didn't even realize I thought quite this until I found myself trying to explain it.

for being too dim to make the lj cut work. It was supposed to say "rant on credibility".

to conversations in progress, on topics they are only partly informed on

and occasionally get lovely surprises thereby.

Um, I can only answer for myself... personally I am inclined to accord Crowley more legitimacy than... well, anyone I've ever heard of on at least the subject of social architecture. I never even recognized the existence of ( Read more... )

Wow. www.warisaracket.com. No, I haven't looked at it, I'm just laughing that I'm surprised to see it. I knew I couldn't have been the only one in on that secret. Yes, "www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net" is an interesting rant, and though I'm disinclined to look to religious text for answers, he's got a point or three ( Read more... )

Tardigrades. Tardigrades built us. They are the hands with which awareness builds the vehicles to move and do as it would. They survive everything, even vaccum. When they land on a virgin planet and wake up, the resident awareness learns how to use them to build nanotech, molecular machines like our own bodies, which now it is using to build ( Read more... )

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but anyone else is welcome to play too. Remember, I'm not easily offended, I'd have a lot more rough edges than I do if a few good friends hadn't told me how I was a time or three along the way. It's a lot gharder to fix things you are unaware of ;> So go ahead, enlighten me ( Read more... )

I woke up a 7:30 this mroning, well rested and ready to get up. It's kind of like when I was a small child and would wake up before mom and dad in the morning, and I could put all the sugar on my cereal I wanted to, and watch cartoons. (And this may well be the first time since then I've woken up at this hour because I just felt like it ( Read more... )

(by bringing up GW and Mars ( Read more... )

One of my favorite science geek things was the guy at UMont whose previous job had been about using potato factory waste, which is a water pollution problem, to make plastics, by the use of a particular strain of... I think it was a fungus but I'm not sure. A vat culture, basically, same as wine or beer or bread or cheese or miso. Bio-remediation ( Read more... )