On 03/04/15 23:23, Gravis wrote: >> So, basically we will be using mithology for names. > *** Although Homer was verbose on names, I doubt he ever reached 670,000. Once the astronomers depleted the stock of gods, semi-gods, muses, spirits, heroes and so forth, they ventured into baptizing space objects after actual people's names.
One day everyone will have their own star. That is, if the Mormons keep feeding their database, NSA keeps recording every digital fart ever made by humans, and we don't blow ourselves out into oblivion. When you think of it, long after the Internet is shutdown, future archeologists will rely on the gossip and mass-mediocrity of our times to figure out the civilization that made space travel possible; reconstructed issues from hundreds of salvaged copies of People magazine will still haunt the dreams of scientists trying to solve the mystery of our global failure. These people... were killing evolved carbon-oxygen converters to print blurry pictures of the underwear of insignificant members of their species. They were breeding heroes on glossy paper and cocaine, defining the future waving oil-based plastic flags in unison as their elected gods passing by in armored vehicles at a safe distance, showing their made-up smirking faces on giant displays, were deciding their fate inventing problems that did not exist before. How they could reach beyond their home planet's atmosphere remains a speculative and highly controversial research field. == hk -- _ _ We are free to share code and we code to share freedom (_X_)yne Foundation, Free Culture Foundry * https://www.dyne.org/donate/ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
