You must log in or # to comment.
You wanna get together later and rub our dust together?
Excellent band, by the way.
First band I ever saw live.
Still have the smarties they threw to the crowd after the last song.
Toronto… 07ish
What a great first concert, good for you!
yess, I’ve seen them live twice and I still hope they’ll tour again
I’ve got tix to see them in Seattle on Sept 30!
Amazing band, and lovely people too. I saw them in Bristol about 5-6 years ago, and met them after their show. I told them that I owe them my Computer Science degree since they’re basically my study playlist, and apparently they get that from fans often.
Absolutely. I saw them back in the day. A+ performance.
I’ve got tix at the end of the month!
Is there a word for this type of hypersimplification to evoke wonder? If not, can we coin one?
A few simple words that just turned my reality upside down? I’m sure Germans have one
Numberwang
This is definitely Numberwang!
abgefickt?
Vorshtein?
Verwunderung?
My suggestion: Simplificatio Adstupefaciendi - A simplification with the purpose to astonish.
On top of sounding cool it is already astonishing to remember and to be able to spell it!
Releasing the kraken
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan.
I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.
You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It’s more like that.
The buddha explained this 2500 years ago
deleted by creator
But it wasn’t really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume and thinning out via regular ol’ relativistic expansion.
EDIT: looking a little bit closer, there’s the thing about zapping all over itself after Inflation, it was almost perfectly half-and-half matter/antimatter, which then proceeded to join and annihilate into pure energy, but for some reason probably related to the Weak Force, just a little bit more matter was created than antimatter.
And that’s what we are and see today, 1 part out of every 8 million-and-one. For every 4,000,000 parts antimatter, there were 4,000,001 parts matter, only that 1 left over particle of matter, multiplied a bazillion times.
That’s just a whole other level of amazing than just saying “an explosion”.
Mind that textbook we did in school?
I’m still tripping
Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
What is “sensing” or “growing” or “respiring” or “excreting” or “eating”?
I would define those terms, but you would just ask me to define the terms I used to define them, wouldn’t you? Eventually, language is known by other people without being defined in terms of language.
Not really, i left out the term reproduce because i think it has some reality. But others like sensing — does an atom changing the electron cloud due to an electric feild or nearby atom count as sensing because it senses the presence of nearby atoms or whatever?
Won’t growing constitute of some large mass body collecting more mass due to its gravitation?
