An ex-girlfriend and I once discussed the idea of life on other planets. I, of course, told her that I was rather certain life had developed all over the universe, but that the universe is such a dangerous place that probably most of it gets routinely wiped out by Mass Extinction Events (more, more, more, more, more, more) before it has a chance to get offworld, develop tech powerful enough to sustain it after a MEE, and that would be why we never see any evidence of anyone else out there. I was flabbergasted to hear her thoughts on the …

Yeah. You just knew it, didn’t you? Damn Microsoft. This comes to you courtesy of Dan Hon’s ext|circ. And yes, today seems to be trackback day. I’ll stop after this and go watch a movie and get to bed. I swear. I won’t even reinstall my aggregator. I can do that tomorrow. Really!

I’ve heard of celestial music, but I’ve never heard of the music of black hole. And of course none of us will ever heard it, since it’s way too deep for any of us to hear… 53-odd octaves below middle C. But it’s there, and it’s a B-flat. Then again, apparently the Earth has it’s own music, too. And Myoung says that some Russian Symphony orchestra’s gonna make music in Jeonju next Wednesday. Smetana and Dvorak and all… so even Jeonju has celestial music of a sort.

Sure, everyone’s heard about the Chinese Space Program and the Manned Missions they’re planning, right? And the Moon Base they want to build? Whether as the butt of jokes around the world, or the subject of excitement (mainly on the part of the Chinese), it’s hardly escaped notice. But I hadn’t heard about India’s program until today. Indian Prime Minister Announces Mission to Moon Bangalore – Aug 20, 2003 The Chandrayan-1 mission, announced by the Prime Minister yesterday (August 15, 2003) during his Independence Day address to the nation, represents India’s foray into a planetary exploration era in the coming …

WELCOME TO EARTHSTATION 5!! Here we go. I’ve been expecting this for a while, though I guess I was imagining it would be in Turkish Cyprus or maybe Uzbekistan. Where’s the best place to run a P2P system from? To launch the updates and administrate the whole thing? Why, from somewhere where the lawyers and suits daren’t go. Napster had reappeared as a for-pay network? Pbbbbbbt. No, no no, they have it all wrong. See Earthstation5: We’re in Palestine, in a refugee camp,” said Ras Kabir, the service’s co-founder. “There aren’t too many process servers that are going to be …