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News Briefs 12-01-2011

Due to Brisbane’s floods, Greg will be wearing this to see Tool.

Thanks Miguel, Kat, & Live.

Quote of the Day:

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

  1. Ayahuasca
    [quote=Rick MG]

  2. Ayahuasca: a plant for healing the soul.[/quote]

    I got my copy of DMT: The Spirit Molecule documentary a little while ago, I must say that it is a very good watch. Highly recommended!

    Ayahuasca… can’t wait to try it! eye-uh-woz-ka

  3. Concert Duckie
    I don’t wanna jinx it, but maybe Greg should prepare for the disappointment that the band might postpone the concert, or cancel it altogether. I hope I’m wrong though.

  4. 1975 NASA film (temporarily down)
    To all of you guys receiving the same “the account has been suspended” message with that link, it seems that the Mysterious Universe page is temporarily down —let’s hope it’s not due to the recent floods in Australia 🙁

    [PS] Here’s the movie, directly from the National Archive’s Youtube channel:

    1. nucular
      I saw that go by a few days ago too. Lightning in ordinary thunderstorms produces conditions that are extreme enough to create antimatter.

      And they say that nuclear fusion can’t be created controlled on a small dynamic scale?

      It even suggests that cold fusion could be more viable than the hot fusion establishment says 🙂

  5. Aldous my pal
    > After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

    In the wonderful documentary, “The Revenge of the Dead Indians” a poem by John Cage is quoted saying:

    “What we require /silence/ but what silence requires /is/ that I go on talking”

    1. Personal history
      The tale reminded me of something Castañeda wrote about erasing “personal history”, and that it’s the people we know the ones who won’t allow us to change our habits or personality —I don’t think I I agree with that, although it’s true that we have little or no control about the projections of ourselves that “live” inside other people’s minds.

      BTW that story was mentioned in the article Cyberspace When You’re Dead, that centered around Mac Tonnie’s digital perpetuation.

  6. Re: 1975 NASA Film
    It has been a long, long time since I saw that. Orson Wells’ narration and the commentary by those including the late Carl Sagan make it unforgettable in the terms of memory… but more than that, this was the beginning of the age of Close Encounters, Viking and the Star Wars saga.

    It was also riding the coattails of the 1973 UFO flap and the close of Vietnam.

    Our outlook, even in the midst of the Nixon years, that horrid war in southeast Asia and the Cold War, was far less paranoid than it is today. The concept was of contact, not disclosure.

    We did not fear the great unknown. We did not fall back into our caves to stoke small fires cringing against what might be out there.

    For a moment in time, we were able to conceptualize that other life forms did not have to be like us… they did not have to have a hidden agenda or warlike ambitions. They might in fact, be happy to just stop in and say ‘hello’.

    How we have devolved…

    1. dangerous
      Yes if you look objectively, those days were considerably more dangerous than today. There really were deadly weapons ready to go off and devastate civilization on 20 minutes notice. Yes we were far less timid than today.

      What are the imminent dangers of today that everyone is to scared of?

      The sea level in Amsterdam will rise by one meter, 100 years from now?

      Terrorists want to blow up one or two airplanes with a few thousand casualties, certainly that is bad, but its not the end of human life on the planet.

      Today every little problem is treated like the end of all days. Every politician just a centimeter to the left of a pundit is a communist, a quarter inch to the right is a nazi.

      People don’t give an all out effort, they give 200%.

      And if you don’t believe all this crap, you are insensitive.

      No I’m not insensitive, I’m just not all that gullible.

      Can’t people be half way reasonable any more ?

  7. A Prophecy about the Bird Deaths?
    “In addition, no one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface had originated in no country and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it. First, strangely, the owls had died. At the time it had seemed almost funny, the fat, fluffy white birds lying here and there, in yards and on streets; coming out no earlier than twilight as they had while alive the owls escaped notice. Medieval plagues had manifested themselves in a similar way, in the form of many dead rats. This plague, however, had descended from above.

    After the owls, of course, the other birds followed, but by then the mystery had been grasped and understood. A meager colonization program had been underway before the war but now that the sun had ceased to shine on Earth the colonization entered an entirely new phase.
    ~Philip K. Dick ~ “Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?”

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