Category: mystery
Some people think there is a future
some people think there is a past
they are wrong
there is no “past”
there is no “future”
there is only the eternal NOW!!!!!
- Labels: delusion, enlightenment, mystery, now, perspective
“Venus disarming Cupid”
François Boucher
1751
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900â01 from the Antikythera wreck, but its complexity and significance were not understood until decades later. It is now thought to have been built about 150â100 BC. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks appeared in Europe.
Professor Michael Edmunds of Cardiff University who led the most recent study of the mechanism said: “This device is just extraordinary, the only thing of its kind. The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly right. The way the mechanics are designed just makes your jaw drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely carefully…in terms of historic and scarcity value, I have to regard this mechanism as being more valuable than the Mona Lisa.” (read more)
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. While none of the stories has a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people.
The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of “the Illustrated Man”, a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. The man’s tattoos, allegedly created by a woman from the future, are animated and each tell a different tale.
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I can fly
I can make a machine
I can make it fly
I can leave the earth
I can soar above the clouds
I can reach the heavens
I learned to fly when I was 6 years old
I can fly
For the second time this month, Google is causing an immense amount of speculation.
Google has this time surprised its users with this crop circles logo.
Todayâs logo shows a flying saucer above a series of crop circles that spell Google. Well, almost â the L has been abducted. That’s similar to the last Google flying saucer logo from ten days ago, where an O was taken.
If you look at todayâs logoâs file name, itâs âgoog_e.gifâ The URL of the logo is âhttp://www.google.com/logos/goog_e.gifâ (there is a missing L). The last logo was go_gle.gif â reflecting the missing O. So thatâs O and now L. What next?