Midnight Mania...
So, it is 3:20 in the morning and I am having trouble going to sleep.
I cannot shut off my mind.
Here is the bitter irony--I am completely exhausted. I am running on maybe two-three hours of sleep. It is part of the freelancer's life, when you are working on eight projects at once and what you had scheduled to happen one after another is now all overlapped because someone somewhere has dropped the proverbial ball (and for once it isn't completely my fault).
But this is the magic time, when Morse Road is quiet and the din of the city isn't ringing in my ears. And then my brain makes up for the lack of noise by trying to cram my mind with questions and ideas. This leads to tangents, which need exploration, which requires Google and Wikipedia.
So, now, instead of slumbering my way through some dreamscape I find myself pondering which planets in our solar system are most suited for Terraforming. This leads me to ask: Would they be enclosed small ecosystems or would you try to change the whole planet? How would one create all the oxygen and water needed for long spaceflights or for colonies? Would there begin to be a shortage on earth if you began exporting air? Are there extraterrestrials? Are they close to us in the galaxy? Are they hiding from us? Is it possible that they observe us? Is space rally so vast that travel between habitable star systems is virtually impossible? How smart was Einstein, really? If travel itself is impossible, can interstellar commerce happen by communication only? Using light, or theoretical faster than light (FTL) communication, can a sustaining interstellar or Galactic Internet be created and maintained? Would there be interstellar chat rooms and Youtube? What would cybersex with an alien be like? What would an alien species find attractive? Would it be keyed on sight, smell, intellect? Can you send smells through the internet? Isn't there a great old song about a guy who falls in love with an alien radio wave? Wasn't that a song form the early 1980's? How many great songs are there about science fiction subjects?
And so on and so forth.
Sigh. I need to get some sleep.
By the way, the song is "Poor Boy" by Split Enz.. 1980.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AcrRcUDAEYw
Night.
I cannot shut off my mind.
Here is the bitter irony--I am completely exhausted. I am running on maybe two-three hours of sleep. It is part of the freelancer's life, when you are working on eight projects at once and what you had scheduled to happen one after another is now all overlapped because someone somewhere has dropped the proverbial ball (and for once it isn't completely my fault).
But this is the magic time, when Morse Road is quiet and the din of the city isn't ringing in my ears. And then my brain makes up for the lack of noise by trying to cram my mind with questions and ideas. This leads to tangents, which need exploration, which requires Google and Wikipedia.
So, now, instead of slumbering my way through some dreamscape I find myself pondering which planets in our solar system are most suited for Terraforming. This leads me to ask: Would they be enclosed small ecosystems or would you try to change the whole planet? How would one create all the oxygen and water needed for long spaceflights or for colonies? Would there begin to be a shortage on earth if you began exporting air? Are there extraterrestrials? Are they close to us in the galaxy? Are they hiding from us? Is it possible that they observe us? Is space rally so vast that travel between habitable star systems is virtually impossible? How smart was Einstein, really? If travel itself is impossible, can interstellar commerce happen by communication only? Using light, or theoretical faster than light (FTL) communication, can a sustaining interstellar or Galactic Internet be created and maintained? Would there be interstellar chat rooms and Youtube? What would cybersex with an alien be like? What would an alien species find attractive? Would it be keyed on sight, smell, intellect? Can you send smells through the internet? Isn't there a great old song about a guy who falls in love with an alien radio wave? Wasn't that a song form the early 1980's? How many great songs are there about science fiction subjects?
And so on and so forth.
Sigh. I need to get some sleep.
By the way, the song is "Poor Boy" by Split Enz.. 1980.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AcrRcUDAEYw
Night.