After decades of taking seriously hyperbolic futurological promises and threats about a world around the corner more weird than anybody could possibly imagine, surely their readers and listeners and so on are finding it at least a little bit weird how really not weird the world actually keeps on being, comparatively.
Dale wrote:
ReplyDelete> [S]urely their readers and listeners and so on are finding
> it at least a little bit weird how really not weird the world
> actually keeps on being. . .
Ah, but. . . What is the Matrix? ;->
Speaking of which -- "The era of flesh is over"
http://www.2bmovie.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/06/lhc_dimensional_portals/
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A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that
the titanic machine may possibly create or discover
previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or
"unknown unknowns" - for instance "an extra dimension".
"Out of this door might come something, or we might send
something through it," said Sergio Bertolucci, who is
Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN. . .
Various eccentric nutballs have claimed that this
would doom humanity in one fashion or another; perhaps
converting the entire Earth, everything on it and
possibly the rest of the universe too into "strangelet
soup", monopole mulligatawny or some other sort of
frightful sub-particulate blancmange or custard. . .
It's certainly to be hoped that the button marked
"Call Black Hole Into Being" on the control board has
some kind of flip-down cover over it. . .
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I'm sure Dale doesn't remember the original _Outer Limits_ episode
"The Production and Decay of Strange Particles"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_and_Decay_of_Strange_Particles
(written by series creator Leslie Stevens, who was no
Joseph Stefano, I'm afraid).
Leonard Nimoy is in this one (briefly, before he becomes
a lightning-filled radiation suit), as well as veteran
actress Signe Hasso.
"Marrrshall! Marrrshall! You have powers, powers of
the mind! Use them!"
"Can you drive, Arndis? **Can** you **Drive** the **Car**?"
;->
Production and Decay of Strange Particles 1/6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1eW_vW3nqs