I'm a philosophy student that tends to post about really serious things unseriously and about really unserious things seriously.
I was once described as a "beautiful, intelligent iguana".
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
My only commentary is that this looks like a giant space cock.How NASA might build its very first warp drive
A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His proposed design, an ingenious re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks — and all without violating Einstein’s law of relativity.
The top image, BTW, is a Vulcan ship first seen on Star Trek: Enterprise.
Hardt & Negri speak at length about how Empire - and by consequence, capital - has no outside anymore. Once capital engaged in the projects of imperialism and colonialism to open up new markets and solve the contradictions inherent in capitalism, avoiding what Marx called the immiserization of the working class. But now it no longer has any frontiers, at least insofar as they constitute a pre-capitalist society to exploit and sell commodities to.
YET WHAT ABOUT SPACE? SPACE! SPACE IS THE FRONTIER AND IF WE THINK CAPITAL DOESN’T HAVE AN OUTSIDE JUST REMEMBER THAT SPACE IS OUT THERE BEING SPACE AND CAPITAL HASN’T TOUCHED IT YET BUT CAPITAL HAS CERTAINLY DRAWN A LOT OF MAPS OF IT AND IT WILL DO EVERYTHING IT CAN TO GET THERE.
Recall this quote by the great imperialist Cecil Rhodes:
The world is nearly all parceled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered, and colonized. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, to seek out new life, and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.”
Yeah, but then I remember how a few months ago a bunch of billionaires were (are still?) thinking of creating businesses to mine for ore on asteroids. Like, were that to go through, it’d be the single largest space exploration enterprise in the history of human kind so far, and it’d be to mine precious minerals. Ugh.
^ There’s that too.
guydeboring replied to your post: guydeboring replied to your photo: The Portrait of…
youre losing it
Yeah, probably.
guydeboring replied to your photo: The Portrait of a Philosopher as a Disgruntled…
dawwwww
:D
‘dawwwww’ is a totally appropriate response to seeing my face. Not ‘dawwww’ or ‘dawwwwww’ though, and ‘Dawwwww’ is entirely out of the question.
guydeboring replied to your post: Of course I post that hand thing and it fails. I…
I was having anxiety that I was going to mess it up.
I’m having anxiety that I did mess it up.
guydeboring replied to your post: anagrammaton replied to your post: So…I just saw…
i just block them all
I don’t get many. And I usually do the same. That one just particularly stood out. So odd.
I’m checking through my followers now though, and there seem to be quite a few of them (it’s been a while since I’ve checked). Thank god, I thought all my followers were people actually paying attention to the nonsense I say about philosophy or whatever, and that just made me anxious.
Tumblr Crushes:
- nicoleviciousisdead
- guydeboring
- ravenclawtimelady
- we-demand-serious-games
- rhizombie
- shadows-preserve-us
- subreption
- mayacosby
- inautumn-inkashmir
Holy fuck. This is the first time that my ‘crushes’ have actually been mostly people I know/live near.
“Something I can’t get enough of.”
Oh god, lately it’s been fucking coffee. I’ve just been drowning myself in free refills of coffee lately. My heart’s going to explode.
I once had this really depressing day where I made two cups of coffee, and each time I spilled them. It was, like, 15 minutes apart from each other too. I nearly cried.
On a more sentimental level, though, really intense personal discussions. Lately I’ve had a lot of really intense, personal discussions with people - usually in the wee hours of the morning - and I don’t have them nearly enough, even if they often make me feel uncomfortable and stuff while having them.
Oh my goodness, Mouth, you’re the first person I’ve met that (1) agrees that Tuesday is by far the worst day of the week (2) and hates it for the exact same reasons I do.
I’m really excited to find out I wasn’t alone in my absolute hatred for Tuesdays.
guydeboring replied to your post: So….I jumped out of a plane today
OH MY GLOB WAS IT THE BEST!?
I really can’t describe it. Free-falling for 8000ft. and then parachuting into a field was totally amazing. And then I got to play with this girl’s pug for like an hour after while waiting for our next group of friends to jump. It was the best.
Seriously, though, I’m not even sure how to begin to describe it. All I can do is just play it over and over in my head.
guydeboring replied to your post: Some dude just walked into the office: Him: “I…
Oh my god you should have either punched him or told him you were a woman. Find his application or resume and shred it.
It was one of those situations where I couldn’t even think to do something like that. Like, that statement was just so out of place, and the conversation just so awkward before that, that all I could get out was, “Well, I guess not.”
Really, really odd.
