Sunday, July 31, 2016
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Thursday, July 21, 2016
How Not to Choose an Occupation
Ray Bradbury’s Illustrated Man has many interesting stories into
which you can sink your teeth and rile your imagination. The Long Rain strands astronauts
on Venus and the persistent rains that drove you mad. The Veldt has murderous children kill their parents
with virtual reality lions, and The Rocket Man, which prompted the desire in me
to become an astronaut traveling the solar system.
The imagery did it to this ten year old who loved to
daydream. In the story, dad read stereo-newspapers, the family rushed to town
in a helicopter, and they had mechanical book readers. (He wrote it in 1951.) As
I read I could feel the astronaut’s compulsion to go back into space. It made
me feel as if that would be my career path. I craved an occupation that didn’t
exist.
There was a cautionary line, “Don't ever be a Rocket Man… Don't
let it get hold of you.” Nevertheless, the story created a yearning in me. Even
when the astronaut’s ship fell into the sun, I felt that Rocket Man was the job
for me.
One day I discovered that it just doesn’t happen as the
story portrays. There are no Martian sunflowers. Rocket men just don’t get into
spacecraft and return three months later. Alas, my dream fell to pieces.
What remained was my love of science fiction.
NASA IMAGE OF SATURN'S RINGS
Monday, July 18, 2016
Makes You Wonder
Social media shows that too many people are wrapped too
tightly, have no sense of humor, and don’t know how to have fun. They make
judgments that boggle the mind. It makes you wonder what type of pathetic lives
they lead.
Did they grow up in
deprived environments?
Did they learn
intolerance early or late in their lives?
Why do they lack the
ability to express their thoughts in a reasonable manner with normal, non-offensive
language?
Do they lack
intelligence?
What if the entire
world were like them?
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Monday, July 11, 2016
Robots with Human Cells?
What are the implications of this tidbit? Will we implant
human cells into robots?
What could possibly go wrong with this? Rotfl.
#sciencefiction
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