Uncategorized

Celebrating Art’s 1,000,051st Birthday. The Moon Bounce Serenade

In 1963, Robert Filiou declared that art was born on January 17, 1 million years ago. Filiou explained that, inexplicably, on that day, someone dropped a dry sponge into bucket of water. Before then, there was no art. Then, there was.

Unexpectedly, Filiou’s declaration has lived on, and today we celebrate art’s 1,000,051st birthday.

The European Broadcasting Union is commemorating this event with a massive radio project in which twenty-one national radio stations are airing live shows from their studios.

In Estonia, they’re teaming up with world leading Moon-Earth-Moon amateur-radio enthusiasts, no less than the largest music delay block is created out of the … Moon itself.

Celebrating Art’s 1,000,051st Birthday. The Moon Bounce Serenade

Read more "Celebrating Art’s 1,000,051st Birthday. The Moon Bounce Serenade"

I dream of what it would be like in a solar system where two planets/moons had intelligent life. Actually being able to ping one another. — Ariel Waldman (@arielwaldman) January 18, 2014 I get sad about the universe being littered with civilizations, all unable to reach out to each other, stuck within their own radio […]

Read more

Here’s where to look in the sky for star Y1194, twin to our sun, found to have at least one planet.

From The Apocalypse Trialogue, Pt2 (via Psychedelic Salon podcast)

Rupert Sheldrake: “Interplanetary Morphic Resonance… planets of the species Gaia will be in resonance with ours. And planets of the species Venus will resonate with those, and so on…

If there is indeed morphic resonance between the planets, so that when a new form appears on Earth, it’s vastly more likely to appear on other planets, ‘til others caught up.”

Ralpha Abrahams: “A Cosmic Synchronization Principle.

…A spatial version of the God Whistle. A Cosmic Synchronization of God Whistles.”

Read more

From The Apocalypse Trialogue, Pt1 (via Psychedelic Salon podcast)

Terence McKenna riffs off Nick Herbert:

“time travel is possible… once it’s discovered you’ll be able to travel into the future… when you’re in the future, you’ll be able to travel into the past… but no further than the discovery of the first time machine.

…

"millions of people arrive…” “millions of time machines arrive, from all possible parts of the future. To see the moment, this historic moment.”

Read more

Enceladus seems to have liquid water under its icy surface. Cryovolcanoes at the south pole shoot large jets of water vapor, other volatiles and some solid particles (ice crystal, NaCl etc) into space (total approximately 200 kg per second).[14] Some of this water falls back onto the moon as “snow”, some of it adds to Saturn’s rings, and some of it reaches Saturn. The whole of Saturn’s E Ring is believed to have been made from these ice particles. Because of the apparent water at or near the surface, Enceladus may be one of the best places for humans to look for extraterrestrial life.

Read more

Ed Lu interviewed the other day on NPR about the Near Earth Asteroid Defense system his B612 Foundation are constructing, in partnership with NASA. I went into detail on that in a post on Grinding last year, after his Long Now talk. And the Overview Effect Enforcement Agency may have been mentioned. He also talks […]

Read more