We Live in Tumbled Times

May 17 2012 ∞
wildcat2030: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the Enterprise complete with 1G of gravity on board, and says it could be done with current technology, within 20 years. “We have the technological reach to build the first generation of the spaceship known as the USS Enterprise – so let’s do it,” writes the curator of the Build The Enterprise website, who goes by the name of BTE Dan. This “Gen1” Enterprise could get to Mars in ninety days, to the Moon in three, and “could hop from planet to planet dropping off robotic probes of all sorts en masse – rovers, special-built planes, and satellites.” (via Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years)

wildcat2030:

Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years

In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the Enterprise complete with 1G of gravity on board, and says it could be done with current technology, within 20 years. “We have the technological reach to build the first generation of the spaceship known as the USS Enterprise – so let’s do it,” writes the curator of the Build The Enterprise website, who goes by the name of BTE Dan. This “Gen1” Enterprise could get to Mars in ninety days, to the Moon in three, and “could hop from planet to planet dropping off robotic probes of all sorts en masse – rovers, special-built planes, and satellites.” (via Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years)

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May 06 2012 ∞
walkwhilereading: Dr. Seuss Alphabet

walkwhilereading:

Dr. Seuss Alphabet

(via libraryland)

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Apr 22 2012 ∞
xaoss: Tsunami of Compassion (4) by J.D Doria 2012

xaoss:

Tsunami of Compassion (4) by J.D Doria 2012

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Mar 24 2012 ∞
xixidu:   Stunning Jupiter and Io picture: here’s the scoop

xixidu:

  Stunning Jupiter and Io picture: here’s the scoop

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“ You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it. You get ideas when you ask yourself simple questions. The most important of the questions is just, What if…?
— Neil Gaiman  (via writingadvice)

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“ Happiness is a how, not a what. A talent, not an object.
— Hermann Hesse (via jeoblivion)

(Source: journalofanobody, via jeoblivion)

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Mar 19 2012 ∞
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Now more than ever, 33 Himmel Street was a place of silence, and it did not go unnoticed that the Duden Dictionary was completely and utterly mistaken, especially with its related words.

Silence was not quiet or calm, and it was not peace.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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iamjapanese: TAWARA Yūsaku（Japanese, 1932-2004） Kyo (“虚” Emptiness), 9.29-1, from Boh Boh (Vastness) series, 1993 Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yūsaku at The Indianapolis Museum of Art Until June 10, 2012

iamjapanese:

TAWARA Yūsaku（Japanese, 1932-2004）

Kyo (“虚” Emptiness), 9.29-1, from Boh Boh (Vastness) series, 1993

Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yūsaku at The Indianapolis Museum of Art

Until June 10, 2012

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Mar 18 2012 ∞
“ I always say that I am able to use the interstices. There is a lot of space between atom and atom and electron and electron, and if we reduced the matter of the universe by eliminating all the space in between, the entire universe would be compressed into a ball. Our lives are full of interstices. This morning you rang, but then you had to wait for the elevator, and several seconds elapsed before you showed up at the door. During those sECOnds, waiting for you, I was thinking of this new piece I’m writing. I can work in the water closet, in the train. While swimming I produce a lot of things, especially in the sea. Less so in the bathtub, but there too.
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Umberto Eco - From Paris Review Interview: 

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5856/the-art-of-fiction-no-197-umberto-eco

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“ I have a suspicion that it is linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die. The other animals don’t know it. They understand it only on the spot, in the moment that they die. They are unable to articulate anything like the statement: All men are mortal. We are able to do it, and that is probably why there are religions, rituals, and what have you. I think that comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death.
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Umberto Eco - From Paris Review Interview: 

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5856/the-art-of-fiction-no-197-umberto-eco

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