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The building was dark and extremely dusty when we first started constructing our quarters. The front doors were hanging loosely, but were chained shut and padlocked through the broken panes. Only street vagrants, entering via the dangling fire escapes, had used the upstairs during the prior decades. There was no electricity and no running water either. The building stood as a relic from a time when gas lighting was still in use in Seattle. The second and third floors upstairs in the building, consisted of generously large abandoned apartments which had been occupied after World War II. Wallpaper was peeling everywhere from the walls, and pigeons roosted on the burned rafters of a blackened corner apartment which fire had claimed sometime in the past. Everywhere there was thick dust and detritus, rubble and junk. Many of the exterior windows had long since been smashed out by sheer exposure to weather and the vandalism of the international district.

I wonder why there's such a preoccupation with conceptually developing faster than light travel. It seems pretty evident to me that the daily flux of light and darkness as witnessed in proximity to the sun, clearly enough depicts a dynamic relationship. One star shines, then others shine. Brightness can be blinding. The oscillation should make clear that the visible world is vastly moving. If I can see the night stars, then why would I believe in the need to travel bodily to them. Bodily motion, after all, is a concept of a type of physical existence which is at odds with personal consciousness. The vast connectedness of the sky of stars is instantly perceivable as a whole by the naked eye. To transport oneself to the stars may not be a matter of building bodily transporters. The optical perceptions are but a single aspect of a greater world, both neurologically and I think fundamentally physically. So, the visible structure of the sky is just part of what's available to see and evaluate. At best , it provides perspective, a macroscope from which to see our own midst. It may indeed be possible to reach a distant star, but perhaps not by following a direct mathematically predicted path.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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