Primordial Ooze

One night, we found ourselves at this Jazz club constructed from a geodesic dome covered with a tarp. One of my campmates got up and hit the drums. It was classic.

Lots of people have asked me what my experience was like at Burning Man in 2008. I find that it’s hard to explain. Really. Really, it’s HARD to explain! I volunteered at Burning Man and learned a lot as a result. I met lots of interesting people. Then, in one of the “Burner” mailing lists, [...]

The Dyson sphere (or Dyson shell) was originally proposed in 1959 by the astronomer Freeman Dyson in “Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation” in Science as a way for an advanced civilisation to utilise all of the energy radiated by their sun. (Link) Dyson spheres have always fascinated me. I read Larry Niven’s [...]

Google “Chaiten lightning” and be amazed at some crazy photographs of lightning interacting with a pyroclastic cloud. I had a few of these photos mailed to me with this EXIF data: The Chaiten volcano erupts during storms in the middle of the night on May 3, 2008 in Chaiten, Chile. The Chaiten volcano, located some [...]

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