Random jibber jabber

[spectastic]

Whats on your mind?

I think there may be an ulterior motive for going to Mars. The publically stated reason is to jumpstart the desire to expand the human consciousness as a multiplanetary species. It's a noble pursuit. But if you visualize this colonization, it makes little sense to leave a perfectly good working planet to try to inhabit somewhere uninhabitable. In addition, the ability for people to colonize other planets, even with cheaper rockets, will be restricted to the elites. If the world were to experience a massive extinction event, and you were to put your best people on Noah's ark, where everyone serves a purpose, this would be it. In turn, you end up with a small yet efficient society that is enormously higher in value contribution per capita than what currently exists. Everything that anybody complains about, like inefficient political system, poor education, corporate exploitation, crony capitalism, ignorance, corruption, overpopulation, all the cancer that hinders us as a species, would be trimmed out. Instead of people being hypnotized by daytime tv, each individual serves a purpose in advancing that society, without government, corporate interest, ancient traditions standing in the way of this advancement. What starts with addressing the basic needs like food and shelter soon flourishes, because on earth, we take for granted our god given resources, whereas in space, the need for adaptation is much higher, and this mentality should carry forward to future generations. Earth becomes a human infested dump, and human evolution carries forward in space. 

 

In other thoughts, I really hope this new motorcycle engine works, and that I don't fuck it up putting it in.

And Bernie lost. 

[spectastic]

When I was a small child, my legs were short, so when I sat on the bowl, only my toes touched the ground. Somehow, it stayed that way, even though my legs are now long enough 

[Solio]

I've forgotten how to read for school and I'm psyching myself out about it.  

How the hell do you take notes on books?  I'm sure I knew how to do this when I was in undergrad a decade ago, where has that knowledge gone?  What the hell is an SQ3R chart?  Why are peanut butter M&Ms so delicious?  I'm dealing with the big questions today.  

And I totally wouldn't make it on to Matt Damon's Noah's Ark to Mars with the elites.  I bet they don't know what an SQ3R chart is either.  Bastards.  

[spectastic]

 m&m's color and sweetness are appealing because they're colorful, and we are evolutionarily (that a word?) Inclined to pick colorful foods because thousands of years of trial and error has taught us that colorful foods fulfill a wide variety of our nutrition needs, and the sweetness appeals to us because sweet = nutrition, for the same aforementioned reason. So now food manufacturers use our biological inclinations to fuck us and our children, in order to make more money. 

Cant help you with s3qr. I imagine it's a primitive version of c3po

Edited June 14, 2016 by spectastic

[spectastic]

roommate's gf invited me to 420 this weekend on the patio. i respectfully declined, even though I know it's not bad for me. something about introducing chemicals to my body that's not chemicals that I produce with my own body creeps me out. That goes for everything except for maybe cough drops.

[Mattie Roh]

I think the same thing sometimes but then I realize how much Coca-Cola and coffee I consume so to each his own, I guess. I just don't like stuff that messes with my head.

[spectastic]

I need to start keeping snacks around my desk. don't know if the brain uses up more glucose when it's being worked, but I noticed that I've been getting hungrier since I've had an office.