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This message goes to the heart of the deep-time perspective. On the one hand, it serves to extend our imaginations from a short now to a longer now, where Homo sapiens are here for little more than an eyeblink of cosmic time. We are merely bit players appearing on stage for the briefest moment in a story stretching over aeons. On the other hand, it
... See moreRoman Krznaric • The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
In the cabin, Garanin said to him, “With me here, this aircraft is safe. Please tell me the location of the device you have connected to the dead-man’s switch.” “There’s no device. There’s nothing. It was just a trick to escape.” Rey Diaz took off his watch and handed it to Garanin. “This is just a simple transmitter converted from a Motorola phone
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Adrift on a hostile planet, the captain knew he would die. Collapsed on the deck, doomed, he looked up. He did not see the churning ice-sea of nature’s riot, lit by perpetual lightning and ecstatic aurora. Instead, he saw a girl with a owl on her shoulder. She pointed past him to a corner in the ship’s research lab. The owl rotated its head to look
... See morebuckhouse.medium.com • The Athena Incident
beginning of some unknown archaeology of the future.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
