Extraterrestrial
19-SEP
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05-JUL
Havoc
Arthur Dent & Ford Prefect flee from the destruction of the Earth by escaping onto an enemy spaceship:
“This is your captain speaking, so stop whatever you’re doing and pay attention.
“First of all I see from our instruments that we have a couple of hitchhikers aboard. Hello, wherever you are.
“I just want to make it totally clear that you are not at all welcome. I worked hard to get where I am today, and I didn’t become captain of a Vogon constructor ship simply so I could turn it into a taxi service for a load of degenerate freeloaders. I have sent out a search party, and as soon that they find you I will put you off the ship.
“If you’re very lucky I might read you some of my poetry first.”
Chapter 5 – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Putty. Putty. Putty.
Green Putty – Grutty Peen.
Grarmpitutty – Morning!
Pridsummer – Grorning Utty!
Discovery….. Oh.
Putty?….. Armpit?
Armpit….. Putty.
Not even a particularly
Nice shade of green.
As I lick my armpit and shall agree,
That this putty is very well green.
02-JUL
Interplay
Thoughts grow and change over time in the same way that a planted seed forms roots, appears above ground, grows, and changes.
Consciousness is born of uncertainty.
In a completely predictable world, we wouldn’t need it, and the light of consciousness would probably blink out.
Yet although it is uncertainty that awakened us, we find living with it difficult, so we reach for theories that promise an explanation.
By one recent count, there are no fewer than 22 of them in the field of cognitive science.
A World Appears (2026) by Michael Pollan
29-APR
Far Out
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy – 1979
- The Restaurant
at the End of the Universe – 1980
- Life, the Universe
and Everything – 1982
- So Long, and Thanks
for All the Fish – 1984
- Mostly Harmless – 1992
The Hitchhiker series by Douglas Adams follows the adventures of the last surviving man, Arthur Dent, after the demolition of the Earth by a Vogon constructor fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
Arthur Dent is rescued from destruction on Earth by escaping, ironically, on a passing Vogon spacecraft with Ford Prefect, a human-like alien writer for the namesake electronic travel guide.
He explores the galaxy with Prefect and eventually encounters another human, Trillian, a beautiful woman who had also escaped Earth in the nick of time.
Other characters include the two-headed President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and a depressed and paranoid android robot, Marvin.
MOSTLY HARMLESS
Update April 22, 2023: Back to Bizarro Land, again. I had been told to exercise (not walk in dark until I dropped); more precisely: do yoga. continue
28-HOME
Creation
Besides being mostly void and bereft of matter, the universe at large is cruel and unfriendly.
If the aliens are here, it’s for the conviviality of this one planet.