A great Sci-Fi moment that I’ll never forget is finishing Isaac Asimov’s Foundation just as NASA announces finding 461 NEW EXOPLANET CANDIDATES!
This is huge! Since the turn of millenium, we’ve gone from zero viable confirmed exoplanets to five, with hundreds of new candidates!
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“I still don’t grok ‘jealousy’ in fullness, it seems an insanity to me, a terrible wrongness. When I first learned what this ecstasy was, my first thought was that I wanted to share it, share it at once with all my water brothers - directly with those female, indirectly by inviting more sharing with those male. This notion of trying to keep this never-failing fountain to myself would have horrified me, had I thought of it. But I was incapable of thinking of it. And in perfect corollary I had not the slightest wish to attempt this miracle with anyone I did not already love and trust…”
- From Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. 1961.
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Godard (by Jeffrey Blankfort)
The picture and quote are taken from a conversation between Godard, Juris Svendsen, Tom Luddy, and David Mairowitz which was published in San Francisco Express Times, March 1968.
Here’s the full quote:
I’d like to continue speaking about Art. But maybe we shouldn’t, because now it’s reactionaries who only talk about Art. Art is a normal everyday activity. It’s not an extraordinary one. What must be done is to show art as an everyday activity, like sports. It’s precisely the reactionaries who try to say that art is something out of the ordinary, something special. So they pay well and try to give artists a luxurious life.
(Source: babylonfalling, via monsieur-antichrist)
