Questions about your space...

1. How would you communicate with other planets?

I would board an airplane and when over 30,000 ft., simultaneously turn on my cell, a radio, a personal dvd player, my bluetooth headphones, and begin transmitting my message, OR>>>

Find a way to turn the earth's oceans into the largest transmitter ever known to man or alien - by conducting a high power electrical audio signal into the ocean.

2. Who would you vitrify?

King Tut - to reaveal the secrets of the pyramids and if they were built by intergalactic creatures.

3. Your message from earth -

HELP US! We are on Earth, the 3rd planet closest to the sun (star w/ 16 known pulsars). We are destroying our world and need a galactic intervention. I am from the USA - the largest power on earth who does the most to destroy it. I am a man. I have lived for 28 years (earth has traveled around the sun 28 times in my life).

The people of the earth live beautiful, fucked-up lives. You can find a number of our brains perfectly preserved at sub-zero temperature in Scottsdale, AZ. Brains are electrical organs that spark, simulate, & store all of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, & hopes.

Jerry's space journey

I see myself traveling far away & soon I can't even see myself anymore. To think of our galaxy - The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto - this enormous idea in my brain; as inconsequential in the grand space of the universe.

Pull back to where the sun is a tiny star in the sky & our planet, our people, myself, my eyes all disappear into tiny molecules making up the fabric of the cosmos.

Collage of "profound" language #1 : Erich Von Daniken

“Let us get used to the idea that the world of ideas which has grown up over the millennia is going to collapse. Priests who seek the truth must again begin to doubt everything that is established. Laymen will withdraw into the snail shell of their familiar world when faced with the probability that finding out about our past will be even more mysterious and adventurous than finding out about the future. A strange sight to greet our astronauts! Research (= knowledge) does not become possible until the thing that is to be investigated has actually been found! What other purpose could they have served? The stimulating question still has to be answered: Why did they do all this if they had no idea that flying beings actually existed? Now the second fascinating adventure in human history begins with man’s moving into the cosmos. It is not our fault that there are millions of other planets in the universe. Man has a magnificent future ahead of him, a future which will far surpass his magnificent past. How often the pillars of our wisdom have crumbled into dust!"

What I saw in my space journey:

...as directed by Erin:

I was so tiny looking up at the stars, and I shot like a rocket up and suddenly it was daytime and I was skimming the clouds, then the air was thin and I emerged from the bubble of earth's atmosphere and I was traveling around it, looking in like at a fishbowl, down down down to the tiny spot where I'd been standing. Then I was off through the darkness of space -- going going -- lost -- traveling at my own rate so I wasn't close to any planets or stars, it was all black. Then suddenly I could see the line of planets from the earth -- um -- Venus, Mercury (?) then the Sun.

Liz Questions: Faith Answers

1. I would build a device to communicate throughout the universe using an open suitcase, tin foil, forks and chopsticks. If you put this out during a windstorm, it captures the wind current and creates a wind tunnel and then you can hear the alien voices.

2. If I could vitrify someone, it would be Charlie Chaplin.

3. My message to aliens / future earth:

Hello! I live on a planet that is beautiful. Where I live, it is green and there is lots of water around. I love to walk in the forests and smell the trees. There is also a lot of concrete and technology because humans like to improve everything but in the process we may be wrecking everything.

This makes me sad, but I do it too. I love to walk but I mostly drive a car on roads and highways. The car needs gas to run, and so I smell this more than I do trees. I buy food from supermarkets. Anyway, so I say I’d love to live in nature but I’m a big ol’ dumbass like the rest of them.

NeurologicaBlog

Wow, check out this blog:

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog

It's about neorological matters, and coincidentally enough the most recent post is about Jeanette Winterson's recent editorial in the Guardian in defense of homeopathy.

But the way I found it was through this optical illusion posted on the Slog. Check it out: if you see the girl as spinning clockwise, your right brain is in charge. If she's spinning counterclockwise, your left brain is leading. I see her mostly counterclockwise, but every once in a while she switches to clockwise.

Trippy!

UPDATE: for some reason she doesn't spin at all in the photo I uploaded. Go to the website to check it out!

- La Foi

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