Sometimes you can be in the world feeling all, like, INDIVIDUAL and shit, like you're all complicated and unique and unknowable. And then you stumble on something written by someone else, sometimes by someone you have never and will never even MEET, and it seems like they have plucked the thoughts RIGHT STRAIGHT OUT OF YOUR FUCKING HEAD. And that ( Read more... )

I am kind of fascinated with the simulated Mars trip that "left" today, because it seems so bizarre to me that they are actually taking a FAKE TRIP TO MARS. I can't quite wrap my brain around the idea of all these astronauts spending the next 18 months PRETENDING TO BE IN SPACE, when they are actually living in an "isolation chamber" in Russia. It ( Read more... )