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caraigThis image has got to be one of the most stunning space images I've seen in a while. (Click on the picture for an even larger image.) It's just incredible.
As Undertoad at the Cellar Image of the Day said: "So, to sum up, wrap your mind around this: the glow of white is millions of stars - so large that we can't fathom it. The brown part is made of grains of dust so small that we couldn't see an individual one with the human eye." It's really pretty spectacular.
Not much going on elsewhere in my life. Still looking for a job. Doing some web graphics work on the side. Seeing my character slowly drive himself insane in NWN. You know, little things like that. =) All in all I don't think I'm feeling terribly healthy these days. I think a big part of it is just being fairly directionless. So, I'm trying to put more direction in. I should, in the middle of jobhunting and graphics and modeling stuff, go back to work on that SF novel I have copious volumes of notes for but was never really happy with the draft of.
Political Insanity Department: NY City's own Mayor Bloomberg issued Executive Order 41 on September 17th. E.O. 41 forbids the asking of if you are a citizen or not. (I wonder if this means that a non-citizen can become a police officer....) Just this week I got a Juror's Questionnaire from New York State and one of the questions is, "Are you a US citizen?" Sooooo... who wins out in this case? And how much confusion is this going to cause? It's the State asking, but the court is at the County, i.e. below City, level.
Man, I've SO got to get out of this city. Here. Read the full text of Halfling Girl by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sharkcowsheep and laugh. Be happy.
As Undertoad at the Cellar Image of the Day said: "So, to sum up, wrap your mind around this: the glow of white is millions of stars - so large that we can't fathom it. The brown part is made of grains of dust so small that we couldn't see an individual one with the human eye." It's really pretty spectacular.
Not much going on elsewhere in my life. Still looking for a job. Doing some web graphics work on the side. Seeing my character slowly drive himself insane in NWN. You know, little things like that. =) All in all I don't think I'm feeling terribly healthy these days. I think a big part of it is just being fairly directionless. So, I'm trying to put more direction in. I should, in the middle of jobhunting and graphics and modeling stuff, go back to work on that SF novel I have copious volumes of notes for but was never really happy with the draft of.
Political Insanity Department: NY City's own Mayor Bloomberg issued Executive Order 41 on September 17th. E.O. 41 forbids the asking of if you are a citizen or not. (I wonder if this means that a non-citizen can become a police officer....) Just this week I got a Juror's Questionnaire from New York State and one of the questions is, "Are you a US citizen?" Sooooo... who wins out in this case? And how much confusion is this going to cause? It's the State asking, but the court is at the County, i.e. below City, level.
Man, I've SO got to get out of this city. Here. Read the full text of Halfling Girl by
sharkcowsheep and laugh. Be happy.
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Date: 2003-10-09 03:38 pm (UTC)It also reminded me of something, visually... a neat occurrance, sort of like seeing the Mordor orc hordes and having the "guess we're fucked" realization, but nicer. This was instead a case of digging up higher and higher resolution starscapes, sitting back staring at the sheer countless numbers of what's out there SO MUCH BIGGER THAN US and realizing that I absolutely, truly and without room for doubt believe Sagan. There HAS to be someone else out there with that much space and recurring pattern. Not necessarily close enough we'll ever meet them, or they even know each other... but they're definitely there. In force.
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Date: 2003-10-09 09:04 pm (UTC)And it's very humbling yet at the same time oddly comforting in a way. With trillions and trillions of stars out there, the chances are that SOME developed the one-in-a-trillion chance meeting of amino acids. And that of those, some few or many, might have developed multicellular life. And some of THOSE developed intelligent life. And even counting those infinitesmal chances of each happening, that's still trillions of star systems out of the multitude.