[b]Randall Munroe
I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express.[/b]
So, what do you think of that, Kid?
The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.
Any of you here?
Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they’re frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
Let’s note some.
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
We could be next.
If humans escape the solar system and outlive the Sun, our descendants may someday live on one of these planets. Atoms from Times Square, cycled through the heart of the Sun, will form our new bodies. One day, either we will all be dead, or we will all be New Yorkers.
How crazy is this? No, really.
Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.
Never done that before.