Waiting for Eternity

[Lightning Rod]

Oh yes, I would like to think that my work will live after me

I would like to think that teams of graduate students will spend semesters

looking through age encrusted data bases and fossilized hard drives to decipher my wisdom.

Oh, yes I would love that.

Just the thought that my etchings on the wall might border on the immortal

gives me a supernatural thrill, it goes beyond history, beyond archeology all the way to geology.

Make me a fossil or an hieroglyphic or a mummy cased in gold

Let the cherished descendants or the alien investigators sift through the sediments to find me

all coded in digits and waiting for eternity.

[stilltrucking]

when I was a kid I loved to write my name in wet concrete, because I knew it was going to be there long after I was not. It cheers me up to think that the words of Richard Nixon written on chromium steel are hurtling out past our solar system into the galaxy with greetings from planet earth. I sometimes think about the thousands and thousands of cunieform tablets found in Mesopotamia. 99.99 percent records of commercial transactions, and one was the Epic Of Gilgamesh. What survives, I think Mark Twain is going to be around a long time. You to clay.

[WIREMAN]

ya ain't foolin me LRod
yer like all the rest of us
and ya want it now!

[Lightning Rod]

truck,

here is a link to my partner Barry Gremillion's treatment of Gilgamesh:

http://www.barrygremillion.com/gilgamesh.html

wired,
I don't just want it now. I want it ALL now.

[judih]

Ah, to be a fossil in my own time

[stilltrucking]

Our eyes are time machines they register the light of dead stars
they register the light of the birth of new life
and fossil man running his war machines on fossil fuels
while we all orbit a dieing star
and we are fruitful excellent multipliers
Darfur and Niger
starving babies and pregnant women
our Timex dooms day clock keeps on ticking
and we keep on fucking
"Deal with reality or it will deal with you"
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

[Zlatko Waterman]

There's a detail of M16, and one of the "elephant trunks" here:


http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/ent ... r2005012e/


The cluster is about 7,000 light years from us.

When the light we observe began its voyage, this was the situation here on earth:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4004_BC


Knowing the size ( and duration) of things in this proportion helps to quiet the nerves after a day on the freeway.

Either that, or it makes one realize he is a microbe on a cosmic scale.


Thanks, Still, for your pictures and insights.

Forget about "rogue states", DUB II, what about "rogue black holes", headed our way? ( only 6,000 light years away . . .)

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsde ... 1/29/text/




--Z

[mnaz]

today's wisdom,

tomorrow's fossils.


a timely reminder..

[stilltrucking]

Z
That is called the Eagle Nebula by some people. It is churning out new stars, new elements for the birth of life. I fear no black holes except the one within me.

It is hard to keep up with the latest scientific mythology for example this is no longer considered to be fact.

A black hole is a dense concentration of mass with a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape it. The research is reported in the September 13, 2001 issue of the scientific journal Nature.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsde ... 1/29/text/
The latest mythology says that the light escapes into another universe. Which makes one wonder about the word uni-verse, is it one verse or two or a multiverse, a two fold continous multiplicity?
M
there is nothing wrong with fosillized wisdom
maybe I mis understand you
what is writting except fosslilzed words
we learn much from fossils
we just need to not be fossilized men until we die
some people just become living fossils
they reach a stage in their life were the cease to change
then they have a lot to catch up on when they lie on their death beds.