Showing posts with label futurism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label futurism. Show all posts
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future
A love story for the ages! Beautiful! From Crave. Excerpts:
A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.
The LHC successfully collided particles at record force earlier this week, a milestone Mr Cole was attempting to disrupt by stopping supplies of Mountain Dew to the experiment's vending machines. He also claimed responsibility for the infamous baguette sabotage in November last year.
Mr Cole was seized by Swiss police after CERN security guards spotted him rooting around in bins. He explained that he was looking for fuel for his 'time machine power unit', a device that resembled a kitchen blender.
Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."
And OOhh! Twilight Zone/Outer Limits twist..
Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.
After a brief consultation with John Titor, Cole will return again to finish the job, clothed this time in either 100% cotton or some kind of poly cotton blends.. Good luck and Godspeed, Mr. Cole. I too, hate fucking Kit Kats..
A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.
The LHC successfully collided particles at record force earlier this week, a milestone Mr Cole was attempting to disrupt by stopping supplies of Mountain Dew to the experiment's vending machines. He also claimed responsibility for the infamous baguette sabotage in November last year.
Mr Cole was seized by Swiss police after CERN security guards spotted him rooting around in bins. He explained that he was looking for fuel for his 'time machine power unit', a device that resembled a kitchen blender.
Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."
And OOhh! Twilight Zone/Outer Limits twist..
Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.
After a brief consultation with John Titor, Cole will return again to finish the job, clothed this time in either 100% cotton or some kind of poly cotton blends.. Good luck and Godspeed, Mr. Cole. I too, hate fucking Kit Kats..
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
A Starfaring University?
Taken from George Ure's essential Urban Survival Site.
"If we're ever going to be a starfaring world, we need a university that will teach people a different way of being....that's what we want you to consider." A heady challenge if there was one, rebuilding higher ed with an avowed 'get off Earth bent', but that was the gauntlet thrown down by a prospective consulting client I spoke with this week. "Let me mull it around in a Peoplenomics report, because it's a big topic and I don't want to see your business plan details," I told the caller. As the week wore on, the topic came clearly into focus as one that humans could be working on, but because of our preoccupation with the ruling money paradigm, we aren't pursuing. Nor is it likely we're about to. The good news? Our old paradigms die, or we do...and that watershed event might be a good time to reinvent how humans purpose themselves and learn.
Now that we're knee-deep in about twelve different flavors of shit, it becomes obvious that we-as-global-society should have spent our time more constructively. Just two recent-history examples here: 1. One billion dollars towards Research and Development in 1975 for Solar, Water, and Wind would have completely changed our future direction(s). 2, Better than half-assed Nuclear Emergency Response plans from TEPCO, GE, The IAEA, anyone.. would have also been appreciated, as it might have kept the planet from a horrifying, irradiating catastrophe, you know, like the one unfolding now..
Now that it's down to the wire on so many societal fronts, it's cool to see at least some people are still capable of Forward Thinking, and taking some action regarding those thoughts and ideas. Focused thought toward future goals and timelines SHOULD be our first priority, although it never has, and will never be a majority opinion, without some paradigm smashing Event..
If.. IF we don't spectacularly off ourselves, we stand at the brink of a massive leap in human consciousness, effecting all aspects of this present form of reality. Implications from The Best Possible Choice are as spectacular as The Worst Case Scenario. The visible differences between the choices of directions we face become clearer, but the way forward, and our ultimate fate remain unseen and uncertain.
What's next ?
"If we're ever going to be a starfaring world, we need a university that will teach people a different way of being....that's what we want you to consider." A heady challenge if there was one, rebuilding higher ed with an avowed 'get off Earth bent', but that was the gauntlet thrown down by a prospective consulting client I spoke with this week. "Let me mull it around in a Peoplenomics report, because it's a big topic and I don't want to see your business plan details," I told the caller. As the week wore on, the topic came clearly into focus as one that humans could be working on, but because of our preoccupation with the ruling money paradigm, we aren't pursuing. Nor is it likely we're about to. The good news? Our old paradigms die, or we do...and that watershed event might be a good time to reinvent how humans purpose themselves and learn.
Now that we're knee-deep in about twelve different flavors of shit, it becomes obvious that we-as-global-society should have spent our time more constructively. Just two recent-history examples here: 1. One billion dollars towards Research and Development in 1975 for Solar, Water, and Wind would have completely changed our future direction(s). 2, Better than half-assed Nuclear Emergency Response plans from TEPCO, GE, The IAEA, anyone.. would have also been appreciated, as it might have kept the planet from a horrifying, irradiating catastrophe, you know, like the one unfolding now..
Now that it's down to the wire on so many societal fronts, it's cool to see at least some people are still capable of Forward Thinking, and taking some action regarding those thoughts and ideas. Focused thought toward future goals and timelines SHOULD be our first priority, although it never has, and will never be a majority opinion, without some paradigm smashing Event..
If.. IF we don't spectacularly off ourselves, we stand at the brink of a massive leap in human consciousness, effecting all aspects of this present form of reality. Implications from The Best Possible Choice are as spectacular as The Worst Case Scenario. The visible differences between the choices of directions we face become clearer, but the way forward, and our ultimate fate remain unseen and uncertain.
What's next ?
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