Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Wet-Fest at Spacefest 2003
Joy and I arrived at our campsite on a Thursday. Clouds were gathering, but there was still some sun. Temperatures were comfortable.We set up our tent, and were joined by other Spaceniques. We had dinner at the campsite, underneath a canopy. We had just finished cleaning up when it started to rain....and rain.
We spent the night in our tent. Multiple layers of clothes, and wrapped tight in sleeping bags. The next morning gave us a brief respite, mixed clouds and rain with very short periods of sun.
Joy and I had planned on having our unity ceremony under the Tree at the exact time of the Solstice on Saturday, but, the weather had other plans.
Another very cold and wet night in the tent. We had puddles and riverlets running around the tent by Saturday morning. Even dropping in extra quarters at the SLIF for more hot water failed to warm us up. More rain was forecast for the day, and cold temps.
As much as we wanted to have the ceremony under the Tree - the thought of trudging through the meadow in the cold and wet was enough to make a change of plans. And enough for us to see if there was a room available at the lodge.
Luck was with us - there was one room left. We took it.
Saturday afternoon we gathered in a Spacenique's cabin for our unity ceremony. With Spaceniques gathered we performed the ceremony at the exact time of the Solstice.
Joy cried, I flubbed my lines. We spent the night in a warm room.
We never made it to the Tree in 2003. Weather was cold and wet.
We gathered on Sunday morning in the Meadow, between breaks in the rain. Through the fog and light mist we sent the Story back.
And threw our coins to the West.
We spent the night in our tent. Multiple layers of clothes, and wrapped tight in sleeping bags. The next morning gave us a brief respite, mixed clouds and rain with very short periods of sun.
Joy and I had planned on having our unity ceremony under the Tree at the exact time of the Solstice on Saturday, but, the weather had other plans.
Another very cold and wet night in the tent. We had puddles and riverlets running around the tent by Saturday morning. Even dropping in extra quarters at the SLIF for more hot water failed to warm us up. More rain was forecast for the day, and cold temps.
As much as we wanted to have the ceremony under the Tree - the thought of trudging through the meadow in the cold and wet was enough to make a change of plans. And enough for us to see if there was a room available at the lodge.
Luck was with us - there was one room left. We took it.
Saturday afternoon we gathered in a Spacenique's cabin for our unity ceremony. With Spaceniques gathered we performed the ceremony at the exact time of the Solstice.Joy cried, I flubbed my lines. We spent the night in a warm room.
We never made it to the Tree in 2003. Weather was cold and wet.
We gathered on Sunday morning in the Meadow, between breaks in the rain. Through the fog and light mist we sent the Story back.
And threw our coins to the West.
The weather looking like it wouldn't break up that Sunday. Joy and I decided to break camp and head home. Packing up wet camping gear is not fun.
Fate has a twisted sense of humor at time. We no sooner finished packing the truck when the sun came out - BUT no way were we going to drag everything back to the campsite and reset everything up. By the time we got back home - it was clear skies and hot.
Here's to hoping this year's Spacefest weather is warm and dry!
Friday, May 29, 2009
TimeScan® 2OO9
“There is no difference between Time and any of the other three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.” H.G. Wells, today’s date, 1896.
We are taking a few small tentative steps toward time–travel. Perhaps it’s better to think of time–scan since we don’t actually travel anywhen. Our minds’ eyes are learning to scan (not just premember) past or future Times. When we imagine Space travel, we may think of Captain Picard saying “Set a course for Roklev-2 at warp-3. Engage.” A more appropriate image for our endeavor is the Wright brothers near Kitty Hawk, NC. They were airborne for less than 23 seconds. By the same tokin, we are finding ways to be timeborne for a few moments each year.
We found a place, and there we will meet to initiate the cycles of Time–scanning. We use a variety of temporal artifacts to facilitate TimeMagic. Mimicking an ancient ritual we toss quarters; we read the Story; we consult the ancient scroll; we chant all 23 verbs of the alphabet; we assemble 42 round metal objects...
We are creating a window in the SpaceTime continuum. We TimeScan® through this Window which, for unknown reasons, seems to follow 7 and 23 year cycles. We began to open the TimeWindow at the 23rd Festival. In 2OO3, Spaceniques sent the Story 30 years back in Time. In 2OO9, we scanned back through the TimeWindow, the 23rd Festival, and the 7th Festival to a gathering at Space head quarters in October 1973. Then we wend our way back to the “present”.
“Right now, you’re just browsing through Time.” PeggySue’s grandmother, 1960
Like all Spaceniques, past and future, we cast our coins to the West. Since we do this after noon, the Sun actually pulls the coins toward the heavens and we in turn give the Earth an extra little push as it rotates. From Colchis (now Gruzinskaja), tossing to the West means tossing into the Black Sea. Because they tossed their coins in the same place at the same Time each year for many years, the Colchins were able to scan forward and backward in Time.
The Scroll reefers to tossing round metal objects at Summer Soulstice. It was transported from Egypt to Minoa during the third millennium BCE. The first coins were minted in Lydia circus 623 BCE. Jason brought the Scroll from Lydia to Colchis. Reading the Scroll in 356 BCE, Thesben and Flaxseed thought they were supposed to toss coins on mid–summer's eve. It all connects in Space.
We are taking a few small tentative steps toward time–travel. Perhaps it’s better to think of time–scan since we don’t actually travel anywhen. Our minds’ eyes are learning to scan (not just premember) past or future Times. When we imagine Space travel, we may think of Captain Picard saying “Set a course for Roklev-2 at warp-3. Engage.” A more appropriate image for our endeavor is the Wright brothers near Kitty Hawk, NC. They were airborne for less than 23 seconds. By the same tokin, we are finding ways to be timeborne for a few moments each year.
We found a place, and there we will meet to initiate the cycles of Time–scanning. We use a variety of temporal artifacts to facilitate TimeMagic. Mimicking an ancient ritual we toss quarters; we read the Story; we consult the ancient scroll; we chant all 23 verbs of the alphabet; we assemble 42 round metal objects...
We are creating a window in the SpaceTime continuum. We TimeScan® through this Window which, for unknown reasons, seems to follow 7 and 23 year cycles. We began to open the TimeWindow at the 23rd Festival. In 2OO3, Spaceniques sent the Story 30 years back in Time. In 2OO9, we scanned back through the TimeWindow, the 23rd Festival, and the 7th Festival to a gathering at Space head quarters in October 1973. Then we wend our way back to the “present”.
“Right now, you’re just browsing through Time.” PeggySue’s grandmother, 1960
Like all Spaceniques, past and future, we cast our coins to the West. Since we do this after noon, the Sun actually pulls the coins toward the heavens and we in turn give the Earth an extra little push as it rotates. From Colchis (now Gruzinskaja), tossing to the West means tossing into the Black Sea. Because they tossed their coins in the same place at the same Time each year for many years, the Colchins were able to scan forward and backward in Time.
The Scroll reefers to tossing round metal objects at Summer Soulstice. It was transported from Egypt to Minoa during the third millennium BCE. The first coins were minted in Lydia circus 623 BCE. Jason brought the Scroll from Lydia to Colchis. Reading the Scroll in 356 BCE, Thesben and Flaxseed thought they were supposed to toss coins on mid–summer's eve. It all connects in Space.
Time-Space Travel
Time traveling through space is a constant. One always moves in a forward direction relative to the Time-Space plane.
As shown in the figures below - the Time-Space plane (blue bar) is a constant, whereas Time is a coil surrounding and outside of the plane.
Expansion of the Time Coil doesn't effect the relative distance if one is moving along the Time-Space Coil. The distance between the coils increases while maintaining a constant distance if one were to travel ALONG the coil.
The same holds true if the Time Coil were to be contracted. Distance between the coils decreases relative to the Time-Space plane, yet the constant distance ALONG the coil remains the same.
To Time Travel and enter a different point along the Time-Space Plane, one must step out of the Time-Space Place, move along the Time Coil and drop in at a new point on the Time-Space Plane. The point in which one would appear in the Time-Space Plane depends on the contraction or expansion of the coil and how far along the coil one would travel.
There are days where we feel the day is dragging, as if time as slowed down. We feel as if hours have passed, yet glancing at the clock it shows only minutes. How often have we told others around us "Gee, this day is just dragging." And they concur.
Conversely, we experience periods where we wonder where the day went, feeling as if we've been working for for only a short time, and checking the clock we find several hours have passed and ask "Whoa, where did the time go?"
This is caused by a time-traveler manipulating the time-coil - either by expanding or contracting it. This manipulation creates a temporal bubble which floats down to the Time-Space Plane. The size and duration of the bubble and how many people it effects depends on the length and speed of the expansion-contraction of the Time Coil.
There are some people who are unconsciously able to manipulate time to a certain extent, although they do not actually move through time. This is evident by their inability to wear watches. The watches speed up, slow down, or otherwise fail to keep proper time. Although never attempted, it's been theorized that if sufficient number of time-manipulating people were to gather in one place that they would be able to speed up, slow down or stop time.
For instance - you have to file your tax return by midnight on April 15. Gather a group of time-manipulators, who are able to slow down time, around the IRS office. A temporal bubble is created around the IRS office, time is slowed down sufficiently to enable you to fill out the income tax return, hop into your car, drive to the IRS office and deliver your return "on time".
OR
You have ordered your SPACE GEAR t-shirts and hats. Not wanting to pay extra for "overnight delivery", gather a group of time-manipulators who are able to speed up time. The package which would normally take 3-5 days for delivery would now show up on your door step almost instantaneously.
As shown in the figures below - the Time-Space plane (blue bar) is a constant, whereas Time is a coil surrounding and outside of the plane.
Expansion of the Time Coil doesn't effect the relative distance if one is moving along the Time-Space Coil. The distance between the coils increases while maintaining a constant distance if one were to travel ALONG the coil.
The same holds true if the Time Coil were to be contracted. Distance between the coils decreases relative to the Time-Space plane, yet the constant distance ALONG the coil remains the same.
To Time Travel and enter a different point along the Time-Space Plane, one must step out of the Time-Space Place, move along the Time Coil and drop in at a new point on the Time-Space Plane. The point in which one would appear in the Time-Space Plane depends on the contraction or expansion of the coil and how far along the coil one would travel.
There are days where we feel the day is dragging, as if time as slowed down. We feel as if hours have passed, yet glancing at the clock it shows only minutes. How often have we told others around us "Gee, this day is just dragging." And they concur.
Conversely, we experience periods where we wonder where the day went, feeling as if we've been working for for only a short time, and checking the clock we find several hours have passed and ask "Whoa, where did the time go?"
This is caused by a time-traveler manipulating the time-coil - either by expanding or contracting it. This manipulation creates a temporal bubble which floats down to the Time-Space Plane. The size and duration of the bubble and how many people it effects depends on the length and speed of the expansion-contraction of the Time Coil.
There are some people who are unconsciously able to manipulate time to a certain extent, although they do not actually move through time. This is evident by their inability to wear watches. The watches speed up, slow down, or otherwise fail to keep proper time. Although never attempted, it's been theorized that if sufficient number of time-manipulating people were to gather in one place that they would be able to speed up, slow down or stop time.
For instance - you have to file your tax return by midnight on April 15. Gather a group of time-manipulators, who are able to slow down time, around the IRS office. A temporal bubble is created around the IRS office, time is slowed down sufficiently to enable you to fill out the income tax return, hop into your car, drive to the IRS office and deliver your return "on time".
OR
You have ordered your SPACE GEAR t-shirts and hats. Not wanting to pay extra for "overnight delivery", gather a group of time-manipulators who are able to speed up time. The package which would normally take 3-5 days for delivery would now show up on your door step almost instantaneously.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
"The Babel fish"
"The Babel fish," said The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them.
The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish."
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this:
'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
'But,' says Man, 'The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best- selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
---Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg.
It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken.
Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday.
You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while.
--Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Monday, May 25, 2009
The Origins of Stuff
Conventional theory holds the universe began with a BIG BANG. 
The universe is anything but conventional and therefore ignores the theory.
If we accept the BIG BANG, we also have to accept the origin of the Big Bang is the center of the Universe, while avoiding asking what was there before it "banged". It's assumed there was "stuff". Where did that stuff come from? What was there before "stuff"?
Readers are cautioned from contemplating on this notion for prolonged periods.
A scrap of parchment (circa 289,000 b.c.) mentioned one Guido d'Forenzia in the villiage of Ralliana devoted his life to the "Origins of Stuff". Other records suggest the villiage was rudely awoken one morning by a very loud explosion, rushing to investigate the source of the noise, they found d'Forenzia's head had exploded.
On a table, authorities found hundreds of scrolls where d'Forenzia had written "It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on....", over and over and over again.
In light of the d'Forenzia exploding head incident, we will refrain from further discussions on "the Origins of Stuff".
The universe is anything but conventional and therefore ignores the theory. If we accept the BIG BANG, we also have to accept the origin of the Big Bang is the center of the Universe, while avoiding asking what was there before it "banged". It's assumed there was "stuff". Where did that stuff come from? What was there before "stuff"?
Readers are cautioned from contemplating on this notion for prolonged periods.
A scrap of parchment (circa 289,000 b.c.) mentioned one Guido d'Forenzia in the villiage of Ralliana devoted his life to the "Origins of Stuff". Other records suggest the villiage was rudely awoken one morning by a very loud explosion, rushing to investigate the source of the noise, they found d'Forenzia's head had exploded.
On a table, authorities found hundreds of scrolls where d'Forenzia had written "It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on....", over and over and over again.In light of the d'Forenzia exploding head incident, we will refrain from further discussions on "the Origins of Stuff".
Sunday, May 24, 2009
23 days till the Forest Awakens!
23 days til the Forest Awakens
“The Time has Come” the Walrus said “to send the Story back”.
Papyrus: “But you and I we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate.”
“No, No, No.” the Walrus said “You know the Prophesy: ‘The Story was received in 1973 from 30 years in the Future’. Sending the Story back happens in the Future.”
Papyrus: "30 years after 1973 is 2OO3 -- that’s when we sent the Story back. So let us not speak falsely now -- the hour is getting late.”
“So if” the Walrus said “we TimeScan® forward to 2OO3, then back to 1973, we end up when we began?”
Papyrus: “Yes, and with luck we will have seen or found the Story back in 1973."
" The Time has Come” the Walrus said “to sound the Story back”.
As the Watcher waxed: “The present now will later be past. The order is rapidly fading.”
Saturday, May 23, 2009
New WIDGETS
We've added a few new "widgets"!
Look and scroll down on the right ----------->
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Look and scroll down on the right ----------->
SPACEFEST COUNT DOWN CLOCK: No need to ask When is Spacefest?
WEATHER Widget: Sun? Rain? Cold? Hot? Be prepared for Spacefest.
SPACE DOWNLOADS: PDF FILES of Space are just a click away
and don't forget to get your SPACEGEAR! Click here for tee's, hats, sweats and more!
Connect with SPACENIQUES in the FORUM: Let us know what's up with you. Chat with other Spaceniques. It only takes a minute to register.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Order of the Quarter
The ORDER of the QUARTER 
(The Entire Order of the Quarter file is available for download. This posting is only a partial publication. See below for download link and instructions. Download link is also listed in "IT ALL CONNECTS" menu on the right hand side of this blog.)
ORDER:
1) a sequence or arrangement of objects or events
2) a state of peace and serenity
3) a sacrament or rite of ordination
4) any of the nine ranks or grades of angels
5) a level of consciousness or plane of existence
6) a condition in which everything is in its right place and functioning properly
7) an association of people formed for some special purpose.
QUARTER:
1) a coin valued at one fourth of a dollar
2) one of the four phases of the Moon
3) lodging or place of residence
4) any of four equal parts
5) a particular group or place serving as a source or origin
6) two bits or pieces of eight (crowns or dollars divided into eight parts)
7) a day regarded as terminating a fourth of the year, e.g., Midsummer Day.
For many years, we have used bicentennial quarters (Washington head/ revolutionary tale)in our annual ritual.
“It couldn’t have happened before 1976 now could it?”
“Not with bicentennial quarters.”
“In the car.”
This temporal anomaly will be resolved at the 23rd Festival.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ORDER OF THE QUARTER FILE (PDF)
Instructions for downloading:
1. Click on the link above
2. Click on file "SPACE QUARTERS.pdf"
3. Click on "click here to start downloading"
(The Entire Order of the Quarter file is available for download. This posting is only a partial publication. See below for download link and instructions. Download link is also listed in "IT ALL CONNECTS" menu on the right hand side of this blog.)
ORDER:
1) a sequence or arrangement of objects or events
2) a state of peace and serenity
3) a sacrament or rite of ordination
4) any of the nine ranks or grades of angels
5) a level of consciousness or plane of existence
6) a condition in which everything is in its right place and functioning properly
7) an association of people formed for some special purpose.
QUARTER:
1) a coin valued at one fourth of a dollar
2) one of the four phases of the Moon
3) lodging or place of residence
4) any of four equal parts
5) a particular group or place serving as a source or origin
6) two bits or pieces of eight (crowns or dollars divided into eight parts)
7) a day regarded as terminating a fourth of the year, e.g., Midsummer Day.
For many years, we have used bicentennial quarters (Washington head/ revolutionary tale)in our annual ritual.
“It couldn’t have happened before 1976 now could it?”
“Not with bicentennial quarters.”
“In the car.”
This temporal anomaly will be resolved at the 23rd Festival.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ORDER OF THE QUARTER FILE (PDF)
Instructions for downloading:
1. Click on the link above
2. Click on file "SPACE QUARTERS.pdf"
3. Click on "click here to start downloading"
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Space Connections Forum
Instruction on posting in the Space Connection Forum have been completed.
They will be sent to you either after you've registered in the forum, or upon request (send me an email) .
Really Quick-Dirty Directions for Registering:
Upon your FIRST visit to the Forum a pop-up will ask you to LOG-IN or REGISTER.
Click Register. Read Terms of Service and Click I Agree to continue.
Create an USERNAME and PASSWORD. Follow the directions on the screen. Click SAVE.
Congradulations! You are now a member of the Space Connections Forum and are free to post.
I check the forum periodically for new registrations, and if you've left a contact email in your profile - I'll send you the PDF file with Forum Posting Instructions.
They will be sent to you either after you've registered in the forum, or upon request (send me an email) .
Really Quick-Dirty Directions for Registering:
Upon your FIRST visit to the Forum a pop-up will ask you to LOG-IN or REGISTER.
Click Register. Read Terms of Service and Click I Agree to continue.
Create an USERNAME and PASSWORD. Follow the directions on the screen. Click SAVE.
Congradulations! You are now a member of the Space Connections Forum and are free to post.
I check the forum periodically for new registrations, and if you've left a contact email in your profile - I'll send you the PDF file with Forum Posting Instructions.
Monday, May 18, 2009
SPACENIQUE BLOGGING
Spaceniques who have recently accepted invitations to blog: Your blogging permissions have been cleared, and you are free to blog.
Spaceniques who wish to blog: I sent invitations about a week ago. If you recieved an invitation - you need to respond to it. Once I have your acceptance, I can release the permissions.
If you did not receive an invitation or have lost it (and check your spam-mail) - send me an email and I will send/resend the invitation out to you ASAP.
Spaceniques who wish to blog: I sent invitations about a week ago. If you recieved an invitation - you need to respond to it. Once I have your acceptance, I can release the permissions.
If you did not receive an invitation or have lost it (and check your spam-mail) - send me an email and I will send/resend the invitation out to you ASAP.
HOW DO I BLOG? I have created pdf file with instructions for blogging. Once you have accepted the invitation to blog, I will send it along to you.
Quick and dirty way to respond: Below each post is a COMMENTS link. Click on it and enter your comment.
Advantage: easy to do, no registration etc needed
Disadvantage: Only people clicking on comments will be able to read it.
Contact me: Click on the envelope Icon below the post for emailing me. My email address is also listed in the right hand column under: HOW BIG IS SPACE?
I am also working on a quick and dirty pdf file with instructions on how to post in the Space Connections Forum - these will be emailed in the next day or so.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Waiting for Sunset at Blackrock 2003
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
COUNT DOWN TO SPACEFEST
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Old Timers and New Comers
23rd Spacefest. Click Photo for larger view
for old-timers...
if you’ve often been to SPACE…
You may be wondering why some people doubt the Truth about tossing quarters,time–travel, etc. They think it’s all just a harmless giggle. Maybe it’s because they haven’t been to enough Festivals to feel the continuity: same place, same time, same spirit, mainely the same people. It’s that timeless interweaving of Festivals that makes timescanning possible.
Sure, 97.7% of the Festival we just hang out, commune with Nature, eat, drink and bee here now. But we also Timescan® back to 1973... Thus we unravel the Mystery as we create it.
Everybody knows that time-travel, or at least timescan, is possible. It doesn’t require massive high-tech equipment. We have all we need to transcend the boundaries of Space and Time. Mimicking the ancient ritual we toss quarters, we read the Story, we assemble 42 round metal objects. Obviously...
Thirty years ago, we had the 7th Festival. It was a very special Festival. We had 7th Festival T-shirts and everything. We gathered in the Meadow, tossed quarters and read the Story for the first time. Obviously, we were opening a pathway so that some day future Spaceniques could timescan back through that pathway to 1973. The future is now.
P.S. It’s probably best not to share this with any of the new-comers. Some of them actually believe that timescanning is impossible. If they ask, just say “It’s just a harmless giggle.”
for new-comers...
if you’re somewhat new to SPACE…
You may be wondering about all this stuff about tossing quarters, time-travel, etc. It’s just a harmless giggle. 97.7% of the SPACE Festival we hang out, commune with Nature, eat, drink and bee here now... perhaps a hike to the falls, potluck at the campsite, sunset at Blackrock...just folks, having a good time.
Nobody really believes the Story, that Space is a million years old, that we’ve been tossing coins for 2300 years, that we Timescan® back to 1973...nobody believes any of it. Everyone knows that time–travel, or even time-scan, is impossible.
Even if it were possible, it would require massive high-tech equipment. (Some scientists believe that time-travel may be possible if they could get a black hole to spin backwards.) Even if it didn’t require equipment, even if it could be accomplished by some form of mental gymnastics, certainly it would be something more somber than tossing quarters, reading the Story and assembling 42 round metal objects. Obviously...
Thirteen years ago, we had the 23rd Festival. It was a very special Festival. We had 23rd Festival T-shirts and everything. We gathered in the Meadow, joined hands, and formed a large circle. The old-timers believe we were opening a “window in time” so that some day future Spaceniques could timescan back through that window to 1973. The future is now.
P.S. It’s probably best not to share this with any of the old-timers. Some of them actually believe that timescanning is possible. So if they ask, just say “Anything’s possible.”
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Space Connections FORUM glitch: UPDATE
it looks like it's back up and running again.
From what I've been able to glean from the host website - they did some tinkering a week or so ago and it's been causing periodic problems with loading forums.
They are working on the problem - so if you get a blank page or can't connect error message - IT'S NOT YOU. Try clicking reload. If that doesn't work, wait a bit and then try going to the forum again.
From what I've been able to glean from the host website - they did some tinkering a week or so ago and it's been causing periodic problems with loading forums.
They are working on the problem - so if you get a blank page or can't connect error message - IT'S NOT YOU. Try clicking reload. If that doesn't work, wait a bit and then try going to the forum again.
Space Connections FORUM glitch
The hosting site is having some technical difficulties this morning (5/12)
Give some time and try again. Meanwhile, I'll keep trying it, and post an update when the glitch is resolved.
Give some time and try again. Meanwhile, I'll keep trying it, and post an update when the glitch is resolved.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Looking Forward to the 42nd SPACE Festival
As the 2009 Summer Solstice approaches, I look forward (or is it backward?) to the annual SPACE Festival in the Big Meadow of Shenandoah National Park. This will be the 42nd gathering under THE TREE and I must say that Dory has a huge surprise for all of you. While nothing should surprise any of us who have lived this long, it could very well be a "knock your socks off" situation. That being said, may I suggest that you bring a pair of sandals to prevent foot chaffing at the very moment in time that Dory unveils her surprise. Remember....it all connects......in SPACE.
SPACE CONNECTIONS FORUM
Space Connections Forum is up and running.
Yes, you will need to REGISTER, create a USER NAME and a password. Next you will receive an email. Click on the link and it will activate your account, and you can begin posting.
Read the ANNOUNCEMENTS under the COMMAND CONTROL section for general information.
Yes, you will need to REGISTER, create a USER NAME and a password. Next you will receive an email. Click on the link and it will activate your account, and you can begin posting.
Read the ANNOUNCEMENTS under the COMMAND CONTROL section for general information.
Cosmic Information
Just a few notes on using the blog.
Blogovlution
Space Connections blog is an evolving format. While we are constrained by the tools and features of a blog, this is still room to expand. I may have st up the blog, but by no means does it mean I'm controlling it's direction. This is for all spaceniques and we all determine it's direction.
Being an "AUTHOR"
You may or may not have received an "official invite" to be an "author" or poster on this blog. If you have been "invited", you will need to respond so I can set the "permissions" levels. Unfortunately, it's not an automatic "enrollment'.
If you have not received an invite, and wish to post - contact me at the address listed on the right hand column of the blog.
Photos and videos:
The blog will allow you to upload directly to the blog - however, in blogworld - space is limited. To prevent the blog from going "nova" - it would be best to upload your photos and videos to a photo hosting site such as FLICKR, Photobucket or youtube (for videos), and use the blog tools for "embedding". Whatever photo hosting you use - be sure to check the terms/features for allowing embedding or cross posting of photos to other sites. SEE: FREE PHOTO WEBSITES
NAVAGATION
Adding a comment is easy. Click on the "comment" button below the blog entry you wish to comment on and follow directions on the screen.
Adding your own post will require you to SIGN IN or LOG IN first. Click the ADD POST link at the top of the blog window. There are two options - COMPOSE and EDIT HTML. Both will allow you to enter and format the post. Use whichever is most comfortable.
At the top of the screen, near your log-in name is a HELP screen. If you are having difficulty, try HELP first. If it doesn't "HELP" - you may email me with your question and I'll see what I can do.
COMING SOON
I am in the process of setting up a FORUM (message board) for Space Connections. This will allow all Spaceniques to talk in somewhat real time, and have more features/tools than a blog format allows.
As with the Blog, I'm setting it up as a tool for all spaceniques. I may be listed as the "administrator" but in reality I'll just be working in "engineering" to keep things running, fine-tuning the Infinite Improbability Drive and possible upgrade to a Bistromathic drive. Keep checking back for more information on this. SEE TECHNOLOGY
Blogovlution
Space Connections blog is an evolving format. While we are constrained by the tools and features of a blog, this is still room to expand. I may have st up the blog, but by no means does it mean I'm controlling it's direction. This is for all spaceniques and we all determine it's direction.
Being an "AUTHOR"
You may or may not have received an "official invite" to be an "author" or poster on this blog. If you have been "invited", you will need to respond so I can set the "permissions" levels. Unfortunately, it's not an automatic "enrollment'.
If you have not received an invite, and wish to post - contact me at the address listed on the right hand column of the blog.
Photos and videos:
The blog will allow you to upload directly to the blog - however, in blogworld - space is limited. To prevent the blog from going "nova" - it would be best to upload your photos and videos to a photo hosting site such as FLICKR, Photobucket or youtube (for videos), and use the blog tools for "embedding". Whatever photo hosting you use - be sure to check the terms/features for allowing embedding or cross posting of photos to other sites. SEE: FREE PHOTO WEBSITES
NAVAGATION
Adding a comment is easy. Click on the "comment" button below the blog entry you wish to comment on and follow directions on the screen.
Adding your own post will require you to SIGN IN or LOG IN first. Click the ADD POST link at the top of the blog window. There are two options - COMPOSE and EDIT HTML. Both will allow you to enter and format the post. Use whichever is most comfortable.
At the top of the screen, near your log-in name is a HELP screen. If you are having difficulty, try HELP first. If it doesn't "HELP" - you may email me with your question and I'll see what I can do.
COMING SOON
I am in the process of setting up a FORUM (message board) for Space Connections. This will allow all Spaceniques to talk in somewhat real time, and have more features/tools than a blog format allows.
As with the Blog, I'm setting it up as a tool for all spaceniques. I may be listed as the "administrator" but in reality I'll just be working in "engineering" to keep things running, fine-tuning the Infinite Improbability Drive and possible upgrade to a Bistromathic drive. Keep checking back for more information on this. SEE TECHNOLOGY
Friday, May 8, 2009
Welcome to Space
All Spaceniques are welcome to contribute, comment and post! See you all "in space - where it all connects"
The Ancient Origins
The Ancient Origins of the
Bicentennial Underwater Quarter Toss
SPACE is big, really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind–bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to SPACE.
Listen. SPACE is not merely an intellectual concept in the variation in relatedness of universe objects… but the SPACE potential is truly ultimate only on the absolute level.
SPACE is more than 800,000 years old.
Relatively, the underwater quarter-toss is a recent innovation.
The modern version of the quarter-toss began almost inadvertently, but first some background.
SPACE began early in human history; the year was roughly 933,156 BC.
Under the lush palms of Ma´tan Bishãrah, three beings entered into an unprecedented agreement.
One was Eieio, the Cyclops, who watched over many men near the western edge of civilization.
Also present was Lilith, who was said to share powers with the Ancients of Days.
Finally there was Gern, a wandering Badonan.
For reasons quite their own, each desired the answers to certain ultimate questions.
Knowing full well what lay beneath the ground on which they were standing, the three took a solemn oath to unearth the answer to life, the universe and everything, no matter how many incarnations it might take.
The next crucial incident occurred in 35,915 BC in Macias Nguema Biyogo.
Little is known about this singularly significant event; nearly all records were lost, buried forever under the sea.
We do know that three prominent citizens, Kerapht, Ingel-rild and Velkor, devised a plan by which they, or those who came after, would be able to decode the answer when it appeared, and that they left behind forty–two round metal objects glistening in the garden mist.
Some point to this as the beginning of the coin–toss ritual, but that argument is fellatious.
We don’t known what those objects signified, but they were not coins.
This incident predates the use of money by nearly 13,000 years.
The coin-toss actually dates back to 356 BC and the village of Poti, in what is now the Republic of Gruzinskaja.
Thesben, an absurdist, and Flaxseed, a sentry, were examining an ancient scroll that Figlett, an early carpetbagger, had brought from distant lands.
In a strange and nearly forgotten tongue, it described the search for the answer to life, the universe and everything.
As far as they could determine, some sort of underground mechanism had been working on the problem for some time.
Based on an unfortunate misreading of a particularly subtle idiom, Thesben and Flaxseed thought they were supposed to toss forty-two sheckels on mid–summer’s eve in order to find out the answer.
Without dwelling too much on tedious details, suffice it to say that this ritual was repeated on the banks of the Black Sea for hundreds of years.
On June 21, 1974, exactly seven years after the most recent inception of SPACE, three Spaceniques gathered in the big meadow of Shenandoah National Park.
It was raining like crazy, a dreary reminder of times past.
Amid the rain and smoke it was decided that flowers should be planted here, as well as fruit trees, hemp, dogwood and sequoia.
We searched our pockets, and finding not the proper seeds, we decided to substitute some other commodity “just this once.”
And so, dripping wet but not discouraged, mumbling something about rendering unto Caesar, we cast our commemorative coins toward the overcast heavens, mimicking the ancient ritual!
.
Bicentennial Underwater Quarter Toss
SPACE is big, really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind–bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to SPACE.
Listen. SPACE is not merely an intellectual concept in the variation in relatedness of universe objects… but the SPACE potential is truly ultimate only on the absolute level.
SPACE is more than 800,000 years old.
Relatively, the underwater quarter-toss is a recent innovation.
The modern version of the quarter-toss began almost inadvertently, but first some background.
SPACE began early in human history; the year was roughly 933,156 BC.
Under the lush palms of Ma´tan Bishãrah, three beings entered into an unprecedented agreement.
One was Eieio, the Cyclops, who watched over many men near the western edge of civilization.
Also present was Lilith, who was said to share powers with the Ancients of Days.
Finally there was Gern, a wandering Badonan.
For reasons quite their own, each desired the answers to certain ultimate questions.
Knowing full well what lay beneath the ground on which they were standing, the three took a solemn oath to unearth the answer to life, the universe and everything, no matter how many incarnations it might take.
The next crucial incident occurred in 35,915 BC in Macias Nguema Biyogo.
Little is known about this singularly significant event; nearly all records were lost, buried forever under the sea.
We do know that three prominent citizens, Kerapht, Ingel-rild and Velkor, devised a plan by which they, or those who came after, would be able to decode the answer when it appeared, and that they left behind forty–two round metal objects glistening in the garden mist.
Some point to this as the beginning of the coin–toss ritual, but that argument is fellatious.
We don’t known what those objects signified, but they were not coins.
This incident predates the use of money by nearly 13,000 years.
The coin-toss actually dates back to 356 BC and the village of Poti, in what is now the Republic of Gruzinskaja.
Thesben, an absurdist, and Flaxseed, a sentry, were examining an ancient scroll that Figlett, an early carpetbagger, had brought from distant lands.
In a strange and nearly forgotten tongue, it described the search for the answer to life, the universe and everything.
As far as they could determine, some sort of underground mechanism had been working on the problem for some time.
Based on an unfortunate misreading of a particularly subtle idiom, Thesben and Flaxseed thought they were supposed to toss forty-two sheckels on mid–summer’s eve in order to find out the answer.
Without dwelling too much on tedious details, suffice it to say that this ritual was repeated on the banks of the Black Sea for hundreds of years.
On June 21, 1974, exactly seven years after the most recent inception of SPACE, three Spaceniques gathered in the big meadow of Shenandoah National Park.
It was raining like crazy, a dreary reminder of times past.
Amid the rain and smoke it was decided that flowers should be planted here, as well as fruit trees, hemp, dogwood and sequoia.
We searched our pockets, and finding not the proper seeds, we decided to substitute some other commodity “just this once.”
And so, dripping wet but not discouraged, mumbling something about rendering unto Caesar, we cast our commemorative coins toward the overcast heavens, mimicking the ancient ritual!
.
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