tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post2259826927721337104..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Arty Farty Friday ~ Going ApeTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-87065452717337469042016-10-21T13:24:15.439-05:002016-10-21T13:24:15.439-05:00mike (agains) ~ Our human brains are not capable ...mike (agains) ~ Our human brains are not capable of properly digesting much of what we're told about the cosmos/universe. Anyjazz always says he gets a nosebleed after $1000; I get a nosebleed after considering just a couple of solar systems! Two trillion though...YIKES!!<br /><br />And...re the "just in"...LOL! And sometimes a Republican Representative needs to be told when he's right. ;-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-22094582082502623792016-10-21T13:07:35.975-05:002016-10-21T13:07:35.975-05:00And this just in:
"A Republican congressman ...And this just in:<br /><br />"A Republican congressman said on Thursday that 'sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty.' Rep. Brian Babin of Texas made the remark on Fox News radio when host Alan Colmes asked if it was appropriate for Donald Trump to have called Hillary Clinton a "nasty woman" at Wednesday's debate."<br />http://www.aol.com/article/2016/10/21/gop-congressman-sometimes-a-lady-needs-to-be-told-when-shes-b/21589066/mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-58664008731999384962016-10-21T12:54:20.143-05:002016-10-21T12:54:20.143-05:00Here's a Neil deGrasse Tyson quote for that co...Here's a Neil deGrasse Tyson quote for that commenter:<br />“However, every advance in our knowledge of the cosmos has revealed that we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. The news of our cosmic unimportance triggers impressive defense mechanisms in the human psyche.” Neil deGrasse Tyson, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution<br /><br />The number of galaxies in the universe was recently increased by a factor of twenty from Tyson's above quote. The new estimate is at least 2 trillion galaxies! The number of total stars in the universe is almost infinite.<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/science/two-trillion-galaxies-at-the-very-least.htmlmike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-43889782117578291842016-10-21T10:54:02.207-05:002016-10-21T10:54:02.207-05:00mike ~ No signature on this one. I suspect that ...mike ~ No signature on this one. I suspect that in their early days Austin Prods mainly put out this kind of "homage" piece, then a little later around BMW time they allowed individual employees to work on designs. Maybe from designs/sketches provided by Austin Prods, and these were signed. Just guessing. The ape isn't huge - it's less than a foot high so doesn't take up the kind of space BMW does. :-)<br /><br />Thanks for the link to the Guardian article - it's a very good read! Some of the comments are disappointing though. I especially disliked these lines from one of the comments, one fairly well down the thread <i>The cosmos as a whole is as dumb as a bag full of rocks. Clouds of hydrogen and helium are not conscious. Some, because of chemical action turn into conscious things.</i> Dang cheek! The cosmos is ALL, and we are but teeny teeny teeny tiny almost sizeless particles of it. (Still, maybe we all ARE dumb as rocks ourselves, considering how we act.)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-46250095882050275512016-10-21T09:18:17.873-05:002016-10-21T09:18:17.873-05:00Wow...my comment posted!!! I forgot to provide th...Wow...my comment posted!!! I forgot to provide this link:<br />https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/12/nature-corporations-people-zuni-environment-mount-taylormike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-34291617663583760682016-10-21T09:16:51.012-05:002016-10-21T09:16:51.012-05:00Geeeeeeeez - lost my original comment...effin Goog...Geeeeeeeez - lost my original comment...effin Google! Is there a signature on "Ape with Skull"? Too bad Morfy never came clean as artist-in-residence for BMW, but there's enough evidence to incriminate her as the one, much to her chagrin. You and anyjazz will need to convert your garage to house your Austin Production acquisitions.<br /><br />Re Terry Pratchett quotation - It seems so very difficult for us humans to comprehend our inter-relatedness, that we all come from the same ancient, parental source. More difficult is the concept that all life shares the same core, biochemical reactions from millions of years' evolution that have produced all life on Earth. We in the USA have granted personhood to corporations, so I guess AT&T is my cousin! Personhood of nature (Earth or Gaia) is slowly integrating into our modern-human consciousness:<br />https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/12/nature-corporations-people-zuni-environment-mount-taylor<br />Native Americans (and many other cultures past and-or present) have always considered nature to be an integral part of each human, that there is no separation. Global warming is a critical symptom of our disconnect from nature.mikenoreply@blogger.com