The genius innovator died and his wastrel nephew inherited a bunch of boring meaningless tomes and weird mechanical gadgets that he sold off for wine and whore money. The project ended and everyone knew nobody would ever want to do such a thing again. Most of the amazing stories and beautiful art and subtle philosophical reasoning and clever bits of technology didn't get saved.
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Stuff like the Antikythera mechanism gives a hint of this-one instance of what was probably some really impressive technology, built a couple thousand years ago and more advanced in some ways than anything we know about for another thousand plus years. This kind of thing always makes me think of all the technology and genius that must have been lost through history. But they could have, as far as I know, and I love that. I don't think the Dogon looked at the sky through high-powered golden telescopes. So there'd be no archaeological evidence of its existence. A golden bowl, if you will.Īnd if the observatory got sacked, you KNOW the looters would destroy the telescope and take the gold. And I realized probably the best material - easy to work, low melting point, metallurgically simple, very reflective - was gold. One large mirror to focus, one small one to reflect the image over to the eye. Then I thought about parabolic reflectors. Ground glass lenses would be even more difficult. Clear glass is difficult and, like clay, would leave evidence for centuries. I thought "Well, what would it take for a relatively low-tech tribe, or a fallen empire, to find that out? A good telescope?" The parabola doesn't require much pre-existing math. And the "I'm not saying it was aliens, but." people seized upon this to say it was aliens. The claim is that upon contact with Europeans, the Dogon tribe already knew that Sirius was a double star. I recently discovered the Sirius Mystery. I don't know where to put it- it's lovely theoretical backstory but I don't know how you'd get it into a story or an RPG. You can get canned artichoke bottoms, which are big enough to hold the yolk of a fried egg, and sturdy enough to stay up on a tripod of toothpicks, couple of tobasco sauce eyes, looking slightly like War of the World Martians I forget what the landscape under them was, probably Cheetos or canned nopales or something dubious-looking. As with many dishes that have lots of ingredients, all needing to be hot at the same time, the last minute of throwing all the parts together was a bit hectic, but it worked pretty well.Ī few years ago, this dish inspired my contribution to one of the local SF folks' Alien Food party. It turns out you can get frozen artichoke bottoms in the local Persian grocery, which aren't quite as good as starting with a fresh artichoke, but are close enough and far easier and better than canned, and having acquired a stick blender for Christmas I've been experimenting with hollandaise (reasonably successful) and aioli (failed badly :-) And I'd gotten a big bag of spinach at the store, so it was time to make this. (I'd never had artichokes growing up we were neither Italian nor Californian nor New Yorkers, so they were alien thistles or else canned things, but she introduced me to her family recipe for them.) My wife and I first encountered it on our honeymoon, and I've made it a few times over the years with varying success. It's a Louisiana Creole variant on Eggs Benedict, with spinach, artichoke bottom, poached eggs, hollandaise. Tonight's cooking adventure: Eggs Sardou. I guess what I'm saying is you should watch Ze Frank. (You'll probably realize quickly that this is a non-standard definition of "true".) Musings on trust, set to a slow contact pas de deux. You'll be fine, just breathe."Īnother ZeFrank, "Invocation for Beginnings". Gorgeous ad releases millions of superballs down a San Francisco street. Imogen Heap performing "Just for Now" live. Multitracked cover of Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek". (More videos in the rest of the channel.) (No cats were harmed in the making of this video.)īaby bear and baby wolf get up to mischief in the zoo gift shop after hours. It just gets better every time you watch it. (Check out the rest of the channel for more.) I have some more "when everything sucks" links for you all:Ĭhris Hadfield sings "Space Oddity", in space. TNH&PNH: Sorry about the local spike in entropy.
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