Fermi's Paradox

The story goes like this: Enrico Fermi talked about the possibility of extra-terrestrial intelligence with his contemporary physicists. they were fascinated that our galaxy holds 100 billion stars, that life evolved quickly and progressively on earth, and that an intelligent species could colonize the galaxy in just a few million years. They reasoned that extra-terrestrial intelligence should be common by now. Fermi listened patiently, then asked, "So, where is everybody?". If extra terrestrial intelligence is common, why have the bright aliens not landed in our planet yet? This conundrum is became known as the Fermi's paradox.

The Horses (Edwin Muir)

Barely a twelvemonth after
The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
Late in the evening the strange horses came.
By then we had made our covenant with silence,
But in the first few days it was so still
We listened to our breathing and were afraid.
On the second day
The radios failed; we turned the knobs; no answer.
On the third day a warship passed us, heading north,
Dead bodies piled on the deck. On the sixth day
A plane plunged over us into the sea. Thereafter
Nothing. The radios dumb;
And still they stand in corners of our kitchens,
And stand, perhaps, turned on, in a million rooms
All over the world. But now if they should speak,
If on a sudden they should speak again,
If on the stroke of noon a voice should speak,
We would not listen, we would not let it bring
That old bad world that swallowed its children quick
At one great gulp. We would not have it again.
Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.
The tractors lie about our fields; at evening
They look like dank sea-monsters couched and waiting.
We leave them where they are and let them rust:
'They'll molder away and be like other loam.'
We make our oxen drag our rusty plows,
Long laid aside. We have gone back
Far past our fathers' land.
And then, that evening
Late in the summer the strange horses came.
We heard a distant tapping on the road,
A deepening drumming; it stopped, went on again
And at the corner changed to hollow thunder.
We saw the heads
Like a wild wave charging and were afraid.
We had sold our horses in our fathers' time
To buy new tractors. Now they were strange to us
As fabulous steeds set on an ancient shield.
Or illustrations in a book of knights.
We did not dare go near them. Yet they waited,
Stubborn and shy, as if they had been sent
By an old command to find our whereabouts
And that long-lost archaic companionship.
In the first moment we had never a thought
That they were creatures to be owned and used.
Among them were some half a dozen colts
Dropped in some wilderness of the broken world,
Yet new as if they had come from their own Eden.
Since then they have pulled our plows and borne our loads
But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts.
Our life is changed; their coming our beginning.

The next generation of cultural production

The tools for cultural production are in the pockets of 14 year old kids- web publishing, digital video production, social network service, instant messaging, online games, virtual worlds. Generations of kids, high school age and younger, are so fluent in every aspect of the technology moving from being participants to creators.

For life in the Universe

The Cosmos

All life that we know, as different as it may appear in size and shape, share a common heritage at the biochemical level- 1.) nucleic acids, 2.) proteins; and we are all products of a single life-startling event. The generation of life is written into the laws that govern the Universe. If a limited set of environmental requirements are satisfied- a supply of useful energy, fertile material to absorb and use the energy, and a fluid medium to support the transaction, then life will emerge.

A spacecraft have conducted preliminary surveys of Mars, Europa, Titan and Enceladus. Novel life forms might be found on other planets: Biologists have characterized host life forms, particularly at the microbial level. Many of the alternative life that has been looked upon were based upon microbial research techniques that were targeted at our own kind of life. Many diverse cell-like objects can be observed when samples taken from soil and water are examined under the microscope. Many of them thrive in the most hostile of environments; such environments found in Saturn. The probability of life lurking elsewhere in the Universe is high.

A Tale of Two Cities vs. Yu Yu Hakusho

Yu Yu Hakusho

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was an age of wisdom, it was an age of foolishness, it was an epoch of belief, it was an epoch of incredulity, it was a season of light, it was a season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

The 22nd Century

Virgin Galactic- the world's first space airline to be designed by Richard Baansoon and Maverick Burt Ruton.

Many Scientists and almost all of us have wondered what it would be like in the 22nd century and Rodney Brooks, Director of iRobot corporation is optimistic that the 22nd century would be a century of space flight. This success story will be enacted by the following suborbital and orbital space competitors: 1. Ricket plane Kistler, 2. Space Adventures, 3. Benson Space Company.

Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 also developed by Elon Musk Paypal principal of Space X would also go its way. For those who are dreaming of space adventures in the future, the 22nd century would be its golden age. There is availability of spaceflight at present and it would cost you 10 million dollars. The 21st Century would see the devlopment of space flight programs and one of us may be lcuky enough to see space on board the Virgin Galactic.