Arthur C. Clarke died...aged ninety...I was reminded of 2001...I had read all his science fiction books as a kid....Childhood's End was the story the movie was based on...it had a different ending than the movie...brb...
Frontline is on...with the story of Powell's UN speech...and the ramp to Iraq....and this..."future ages" speech on MSN...
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WASHINGTON - President Bush pledged Monday to ensure “an outcome that will merit the sacrifice” of those who have died in Iraq, offering both sympathy and resolve as the U.S. death toll in the five-year war hit 4,000.
“One day, people will look back at this moment in history and say, ‘Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve because they laid the foundation for peace for generations to come,’ “ Bush said at the State Department after a two-hour briefing on U.S. diplomatic strategy around the world. “I vow so long as I am president to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain.”
“One day, people will look back at this moment in history and say, ‘Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve because they laid the foundation for peace for generations to come,’ “ Bush said at the State Department after a two-hour briefing on U.S. diplomatic strategy around the world. “I vow so long as I am president to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain.”
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Future Ages I was thinking of was the dreams of the science fiction writers!...back to Arthur's story...brb...Pournelle's page has a little obit...brb...
well...wiki has it that Clarke was irreligious...though I think scientific evolution probably was his religion!....and here's an interesting quote from wiki's page...nice thing about wiki's pages is that they are updated...kindalike that "library"...kinda like Clarke's prediction of a world wide library!...
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This idea of transcendence through evolution seems to have been influenced by Olaf Stapledon, who wrote a number of books dealing with this theme. Clarke has said of Stapledon's 1930 book Last and First Men that "No other book had a greater influence on my life ... [It] and its successor Star Maker (1937) are the twin summits of [Stapledon's] literary career".[49]
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institute of forest genetics...and apollo 14...Huel is on!...
but let me go see that last and first men...brb
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Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive.
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That tree place will have how that flower was in the log!...have to go there sometime...it's nearby...Placerville...
Well...Olaf is grim...and all about "men" evolving...maybe daffodils will grow legs...and push us aside!
Surely the most remarkable thing about Nature is that there are so many species...each has the potential to evolve and push aside...Koala needn't just eat Eucalyptus leaves...or Pandas bamboo...or Cows grasses...and there are carniverous plants...wasn't that The Day of the Traffids!?...brb...
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Triffids are plants capable of animal-like behaviour: they feed on rotting meat, are able to uproot themselves and move about on their three "legs", possess a deadly whip-like poisonous sting, and appear to communicate with each other
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or The Little Shop of Horrors...brb..
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Little Shop of Horrors is a musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood
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apollo 14 moon trees...brb...
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Moon trees are trees grown from hundreds of seeds taken into orbit around the moon by Stuart Roosa during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. They were used as a way to help connect the American public with the endeavours of their astronauts.
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lost in time..fallen throught the cracks....there's no record?..secret trees...to protect them...Huel's right...wiki needs to be updated!!
A butterfly landed on my tripod...the black foam sleeves attracted it...and another landed on the head...and then another landed on my shirt sleeve!...I had been desperately trying to take pictures of them...but around noon they fly about mostly...morning and evening are good times as the sit still then!...so I was taken with Butterflies today..this at Hite Cove with friend...the Daffodil was planted there by homes at the road...and on the way back...well...it was like the opening of Men in Black when the Dragonfly goes smack against the windshield...and...I was reminded of the insignifigant end of Earth...hardly an apocolypte grand finale!....in the Hithhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...brb..
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According to the series, far back in prehistory, when the first primeval Vogons crawled out of the sea, the forces of evolution were so disgusted with them that they never allowed them to evolve again
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The Earth of course was in the path of an interstellar roadway...and the Vogon's 'road building equipment' brb...
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Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.
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Charlie Rose has a black eye!...brb...
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Rose had a choice to make when he tripped on a 59th street pothole in New York City: protect his newly purchased MacBook Air, or his face — he chose the former. According to his producers, "The Macbook Air is fine, he showed us the blood stains on it this morning."
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Peter Otoole on now with the story of his Tin Hip...and now Charlie's tale of trip..and a lament that it all was no more grand than...smacked into a windshield I'd say!...Otoole says he's a retired Christain...some people admire their visage in a mirror...Otoole listens to tapes...
a visit to the Restaurant at the End...brb...
oh..wait...Otoole's talking about Lawrence of Arabia...imposing a western culture on an ancient people in the middle east is the road to folly...Otoole quoting T.E.Lawrence...
Lawrence was a good friend of Robert Graves...which is how I came first to reading that tale...
but the Restaurant...
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Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Chapter 1
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Many races believe that it was created by some sort of God, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Chapter 1
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Many races believe that it was created by some sort of God, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.
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Have you written things for posterity?....Rose.
Statues of snow...Otoole.
Butterflies on the radiator grill, I'd say!...DavidDavid
search: "I wandered lonely as a cloud" on Youtube...and be sure to wear restraints to prevent self mutilation!
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