science
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ET Calls Collect
This essay is in response to the open letter recently published by several luminaries in many diverse fields regarding active attempts at communication with ETIs . You can read the open letter here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/meti_statement_0.html First contact. This two word sentence can birth evocations broad and diverse: horror, fear, hope. The meetings between one society less advanced than another have…
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An Appeal
We are standing on the edge of a rapidly eroding sea-cliff. Battered by pounding waves it crashes into the ocean piece by piece, chunk by chunk. The danger of us falling into the churning water is there but it dimly registers in our minds…we think “all we need to do is take a step back”…
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Apollo Guidance Computer
This is a pen and ink illustration for my History of Computers book for the chapter on early miniaturization. One of my cats took a swipe at it so I have to do some restoration work:
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Australopithecus
My wife and I visited with this little creature when she came to Seattle in 2009. Our kinship extends across time and space, where the exploding supernovas of billions of years ago provided the raw materials to allow our creation. Evolution gives us insight into what we are and how we came to be. It…
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Ignaz Semmelweis
There was a kick into your ribs and the crack of those bones was an echo from memory, breaking open rib cages performing autopsies for knowledge gained-you recall as you spit up your vivid red blood the learned and the wise who challenged your discovery and denied reality. Your sickness is default stress from…
The Numinous Cosmos 