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Four Legs (by atduskgreg)

Four Legs (by atduskgreg)

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Sat 28 Jan ∞ Permalink

I realize there’s a narrative that America is all done, and doesn’t make stuff any more, and it’s midnight for the American experiment and all that, but that ignores the basic mathematics of a country with three hundred million people in it. For every bunch of dubiously photogenic fetal-alcohol-syndrome cases from New Jersey who get on the TV for ten minutes, there are ten times as many people at MIT inventing the future.End quote.

—Warren Ellis, Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America | Motherboard
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fcb: Filming Godzilla

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Filming Godzilla

Mon 23 Jan ∞ Permalink

10 meter dive dry-run (by GreenDot Project)

This is what I spent this past Saturday doing. It’s for science. And the Olympics.

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Mon 23 Jan ∞ Permalink

There were more students in his course from Lithuania alone than there are students at Stanford altogether.End quote.

—Udacity and the future of online universities. After having 160,000 students in his free online course on AI, Stanford prof Sebastian Thrun resigned his tenured professorship to start a free online university. He’s hoping for 500,000 people in his first class.
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Sun 22 Jan ∞ Permalink

To any informed contemporary child, a robot is simply a computer being carried around by its peripherals.End quote.

—William Gibson, “Googling the Cyborg”
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Sun 22 Jan ∞ Permalink

If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth removed from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought
I must attend time’s leisure with my moan,
Receiving nought by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either’s woe.End quote.

—The only mention of “space” in Shakespeare,
Shakespeare Sonnet 44. Courtesy of John Powers.
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(3D printed Hudson Valley Terrain Map by hirmes)

(3D printed Hudson Valley Terrain Map by hirmes)