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The Future of Humanity, part 2: what went wrong?
Let’s face it: Today we don’t live in the future we (or our parents) envisioned. Civilization was not eliminated or at least decimated by a nuclear war – at least not yet. TV hasn’t dumbed down all of society as predicted. But we also didn’t get our flying cars and there is definitely no big…
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Solar Power update (part 8)
(continued from part 7) So here we are. February 2010. We had our solar array online for close to a year now.What are the first year impressions of our life with a 1.2kw solar array in our front yard? First, if you read the initial installment of my solar power posts you will notice that…
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The Future of Humanity, part 1: so last century
When in the 1960s and 70s technology seemed to jump forward with new inventions and discoveries practically every week, with the crown of course being the first manned landing on the Moon by Apollo 11, it looked like it would only be a short two decades until we would have humans live in a permanent…
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Why Shouldn’t We All Get Along (with the aliens)?
If you read some of the posts here you might have guessed that I try to be a rational, skeptical, scientifically minded individual. Somebody who has never been to college but realized he probably should have been. This ‘rational’ streak of my life isn’t very old, though. Up until about ten years ago I was…
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Auto psycho analysis of a guitar player
This is going to be a very personal item. That doesn’t mean it will contain juicy details or revelations of secret information. It just means it might not interest anybody else but myself – hence the ‘Auto psycho….’. In my professional life I pretend to be a guitar player – for the past 35 years…
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Rebooting Reality, part 1
I have often wondered what would happen if we could start over with something. For example language. Let’s say we wind back time to the beginning of the development of language – assuming, for the moment, there is such a thing as a starting point. If we let it run again from that moment how…
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Legoland – which part don’t you understand?
When I grew up in Germany during the 1960s and early 70s there was hardly any programming on TV. Computers? Internet? Yeah, right! But there were LEGOs. Practically every kid I knew had a box full. I had a big box. And every day after coming home from school and finishing my homework I just…
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UFOs have landed – and they are….WTF?
After listening to the 11/23/2008 episode of Tim Harold’s Paranormal Podcast featuring an interview with Stanton T. Friedman I had some more thoughts about the relationship of the UFO phenomenon with Science. I want to say upfront that while I more often than not highly disagree with Tim Harold’s guests he is an excellent interviewer…
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An un-american speed limit?
Recently, as I was pedaling to town on my bike I had an interesting thought. Having just passed a ‘Speed Limit 40 mph’ sign I quietly chuckled thinking to myself that at that moment I would not have to pay attention to any speed limits because, unless I strapped a rocket to my back, I would…