This is Mars: Ever since I was little, I've wanted to go into space. Most of the science fiction I grew up with was all about how awesome it is to explore space. I read space books and I watched the Star Trek and I fed my imagination on final frontiers and strange new worlds. … Continue reading I Want to Go to There
Category: Thinking and Pondering: Science, History, Analysis and Over-Think
Tell Me Why, Amendment One
I normally don't talk about politics. I think it ends up being a preaching to the choir situation, where your enjoyment of the entry comes from whether or not you agree with me already. I don't think I'm going to change any minds and I think, at best, I can just get people to understand … Continue reading Tell Me Why, Amendment One
And then I Found Five Dollars
I saw five dollars on the floor of a Dunkin Donuts today and I spent a good couple of minutes deciding if I should pick it up or not. On the one hand, I just found twenty dollars the other day, which seems like I've found my fair share of money for this month already. … Continue reading And then I Found Five Dollars
Parallels
There is something powerful about the idea of parallel worlds; the notion that there is a universe for every potential outcome. For every particle that either decays or stays, for every time you turn left or right, for every sun that goes nova or expands; there is a Universe. Every choice you made or didn't make, … Continue reading Parallels
Superstitious
I consider myself a skeptic. I don't believe in things that I can't verify through either my own experience or through the scientific research of people who get paid for that kind of thing. If I can't touch it, taste it, smell it or see it, or if it hasn't been verified in a lab … Continue reading Superstitious
Confronting Confrontation Confrontationally
I've never been a very confrontational person. I prefer sulking and passive-aggressive snarking to out and out telling someone off. Any attempt to "get up in someone's grill" usually leads to a mild sputtering and a red face on my part. Even just thinking about it makes me want to throw up. It took me a … Continue reading Confronting Confrontation Confrontationally
Ten Percent
Last week, my computer was out of commission for about four days. It wasn't a very long time and I was able to access everything I needed using either Emily's computer (Thanks El!) or my iPod. So there was no real first world hardship involved and I was able to do pretty much everything that … Continue reading Ten Percent
Blood-Tinted Lenses
If I see a man by the road, I'll assume that he's homeless and alone, that he's on the verge of starvation, that this is one of the last moments he'll experience before he succumbs. If I see a couple arguing in the store, I'll assume that they're both near the end of their tether, … Continue reading Blood-Tinted Lenses
An Angry God in the Hands of the Sinners
It's telling that, in our fiction, our creations are constantly and continuously trying to kill us. Look at Frankenstein's monster, and see something that becomes driven mad by its creator's lack of love. All it wants, at the start, is to be accepted as what it is; a thinking living being. Instead, it's shunned by … Continue reading An Angry God in the Hands of the Sinners
The Illusion of No Free Will
The debate over our free will has been around for far longer than I care to research. As creatures who posses a fair abundance of intelligence, we would like to think that we are completely in control of what we do. Unlike the savage ape or hedgehog, we have the cognitive capacity to decide, to make choices, … Continue reading The Illusion of No Free Will
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