Space: The Commercial Frontier

I recently got the chance to contribute to The3Six5 Project, a daily online diary written by 365 different people. May 26 was my day. This is what I wrote. (The original is here; support the project by perusing other entries, sharing and Liking items. You can also become an author.)

Humans are constantly constructing stories out of random data: seeing faces in electrical outlets, or omens in dark animals. It's in our nature to stab at the context of the universe, even if we lack details. This quest for deeper meaning makes it hard to justify getting up in the morning for something so much smaller than profundity. At least it's that way for me, sometimes.

Today I met Stephen Attenborough of Virgin Galactic. My pupils must've dilated to twice the size of my head because he asked if I'm one of those people who dreamt about space as kids. (He's not.)

I think about space a lot.

Humor me ››

Space: An Armchair Viewer's Next Frontier

With "Space Chair Project" for the Regza SV, Grey London aspired to bring Toshiba's "Leading innovation" tagline to the next level: stratospheric.

This is an amazing thing to watch, in part because it's something we've never seen before, but also because it represents the penetration of something utterly banal -- in this case, a chair -- into a sphere most of us can't even imagine crossing into ourselves.

IT'S (the edge of) SPACE, BITCHES!

Also, footage was taken with Toshiba cameras. More plus for the brand.

Reason #420984309 to Love Sci-Fi Fans.

It's a fact that aliens have been visiting Earth for last several thousand years. Many of our technologies are gifts from them.

It is a different matter that our Governments and some our scientists are in constant denial. Maybe this is their policy or perhaps the aliens have asked them to keep their identity secret in lieu of technical inputs given.

-- Commenter Shailendra Singh on article,
"Number of alien worlds quantified."