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lataan vaan
lataan niin vitusti!
" He brooded in darkness and there was no one else. Not a voice, not a whisper. Not the
touch of a hand. Not the warmth of another heart.
Darkness.
Solitude.
Eternal confinement where all was black and silent and nothing stirred. Imprisonment
without prior condemnation. Punishment without sin. The unbearable that had to be
borne unless some mode of escape could be devised.
No hope of rescue from elsewhere. No sorrow or sympathy or pity in another soul, another mind. No doors to be opened, no locks to be turned, no bars to be sawn apart. Only the thick, deep sable night in which to fumble and find nothing.
Circle a hand to the right and there is nought. Sweep an arm to the left and discover emptiness utter and complete. Walk forward through the darkness like a blind man lost in a vast, forgotten hall and there is no floor, no echo of footsteps, nothing to bar one’s path.
He could touch and sense one thing only. And that was self.
Therefore the only available resources with which to overcome his predicament were those secreted within himself. He must be the instrument of his own salvation.
How?
No problem is beyond solution. By that thesis science lives. Without it, science dies. He was the ultimate scientist. As such, he could not refuse this challenge to his capabilities.
His torments were those of boredom, loneliness, mental and physical sterility. They were not to be endured. The easiest escape is via the imagination. One hangs in a strait-jacket and flees the corporeal trap by adventuring in a dreamland of one’s own.
But dreams are not enough. They are unreal and all too brief. The freedom to be gained must be genuine and of long duration. That meant he must make a stern reality of dreams, a reality so contrived that it would persist for all time. It must be self-perpetuating. Nothing less would make escape complete.
So he sat in the great dark and battled the problem. There was no clock, no calendar to mark the length of thought. There were no external data upon which to compute. There was nothing, nothing except the workings within his agile mind.
And one thesis: no problem is beyond solution.
He found it eventually. It meant escape from everlasting night. It would provide experience, companionship, adventure, mental exercise, entertainment, warmth, love, the sound of voices, the touch of hands.
The plan was anything but rudimentary. On the contrary it was complicated enough to defy untangling for endless aeons. It had to be like that to have permanence. The unwanted alternative was swift return to silence and the bitter dark.
It took a deal of working out. A million and one aspects had to be considered along with all their diverse effects upon each other. And when that was done he had to cope with the next million. And so on ... on ... on.
He created a mighty dream of his own, a place of infinite complexity schemed in every detail to the last dot and comma. Within this he would live anew. But not as himself. He was going to dissipate his person into numberless parts, a great multitude of variegated shapes and forms each of which would have to battle its own peculiar environment.
And he would toughen the struggle to the limit of endurance by unthinking himself, handicapping his parts with appalling ignorance and forcing them to learn afresh. He would seed enmity between them by dictating the basic rules of the game. Those who observed the rules would be called good. Those who did not would be called bad. Thus there would be endless delaying conflicts within the one great conflict.
When all was ready and prepared he intended to disrupt and become no longer one, but an enormous concourse of entities. Then his parts must fight back to unity and himself.
But first he must make reality of the dream. Ah, that was the test!
The time was now. The experiment must begin.
Leaning forward, he gazed into the dark and said, ‘Let there be light.’
And there was light. "
I liked the movie much - theatrically it's a no go, but its themes of mortality and fengshui are cool as ice.
THERE'S A STARMAAAAN WAITING IN THE SKY.
So what to do? Present you with completely useless scientific information, of course.
So where we go.
Today's subject is about all the evidence of our presence here, as mankind - that we've sent out of this globe to the outer space or tried to preserve for the people still to come. While it is true that the most obvious evidence of anything we'll ever accomplish is the shit that's left lying around the surface of earth, there's still couple of funny, yet melancholic pieces of information purposefully left waiting to be found.
Let's kick off with the terrestial stuff. ( This shit so reminds me of Wall-E. )
There's time capsules and then there's time capsules
Let's see what wikipedia says about the definition;" A time capsule is a historic cache of goods and/or information, usually intended as a method of communication with people in the future. Time capsules are sometimes created and buried during celebrations such as a World Fair, cornerstone laying for a building or other event. They can also be unintended caches such as at Pompeii. The phrase "time capsule" has been in use since about 1937, but the idea is as old as the earliest human civilizations in Mesopotamia. "
So there are basicly intentional ones and unintentional.
First category consists of something man-made and the other of something formed in an accident. You could say that in whatever time it takes for us to overheat this place intoSo there are basicly intentional ones and uninentional. " The world is engaged in burying our civilization forever, and here in this crypt we leave it to you. "
6000 years and some to go.
First category consists of something man-made and the other of something formed in an accident. You could say that in whatever time it takes for us to overheat this place into a lump of shit - in the end we'll have one huge Pompeii left of our civilization for insectoids to scavenge!
Nevertheless, we've had plenty of time capsules laid in the 20th century; in world fair events, the USSR did it to supply knowledge to future communist citizens and even the latest seed bank in Spitsbergen could be considered one. Many of them fade from memory, but we've had couple of pretty epic ones to preserve stuff that's actually useful to future anthropologists.
Like the Crypt of Civilization, forgotten for almost thirty years by nearly everyone else than the people who maintained it.
It's a special sealed airtight chamber in Oglethorpe University, Atlanta. The items preserved within are for the people of the year 8813 Jkr. It contains microfilms of several important literature works like Koran, The Bible, Homer's Illiad and Dante's Inferno. Voice recordings were included of Frank Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Weird choice if you ask me. There's also many mundane items from can openers to a bottle of martini with an olive inside. Last items ever placed inside it were newspapers that contained reports out of World War II. It was sealed in 1940.
Words reflecting the spirit of the days on the chamber door are written as; " The world is engaged in burying our civilization forever, and here in this crypt we leave it to you. "
( Time Capsule in Amarillo, Texas )
Then to the extraterrestial part.
Everyone knows about the Arecibo Broadcast. If you don't - google it. It was a message to the possible starcraft voyagers out there that was beamed in the 70's and contained " basic stuff " about humans and our solar system encoded in binary digits. The plan is that in 25000 years it will hand over the coordinates of our solar system and planet to some militaristic aliens that in return will beam back fart sounds.
Actually, to be honest - the scientists didn't do their homework properly, once it reaches it's actual destination, the M13 cluster targeted won't even be there anymore. But hey, it warranted a very funny reply in the form of crop circles on some field next to SETI research center in 2001!
( CHECK IT OUT! )
Next up;
( Image of the records )
The final word.
Lageos 2 is a lonely geological probe that scans the planet from the void constantly, trying to fulfill one of its primary goals; determining the exact shape of earth as a planetoid. In 8.4 million years it will return to earth atmosphere, the ultimate Wall-E.
Long after we're gone...
- 8,400,000: LAGEOS 2 satellite time capsule re-enters Earth's atmospher
- 600,000,000 to 3,500,000,000 (estimates vary): Slow but steady increase in solar luminosity will cause Earth's oceans to evaporate, leaving it inhospitable to life.
- 1,000,000,000: The last total solar eclipse on Earth will occur, due to the Moon's orbit gradually becoming larger and spreading away from the earth
- 3,000,000,000: The Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way Galaxy are predicted to collide.
- 5,000,000,000: The Sun becomes a red giant and any remaining life on Earth, and possibly Earth itself, is destroyed.
- 7,000,000,000: The Sun becomes a white dwarf about the size of the Earth.
- 17,000,000,000: The Sun will become a black dwarf.
- 100,000,000,000: The Virgo Supercluster merges into one super galaxy, millions of light-years across, filled of Red Dwarfs and small amounts of White Dwarfs. Other superclusters have also merged, yet have been separated from each other by distances of more than a billion light-years due to the acceleration of Dark Matter and Energy.
- 100,000,000,000,000 to 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion): The Big Freeze according to many cosmologists. Intelligent life existing then may flee to other universes, as suggested by the physicist Michio Kaku. Beginning of the Degenerate Era of our universe. End of normal star formation and normal stars in the Milky Way/M31 super-galaxy. New stars formed only via brown dwarf collisions every hundred billion years or so.
- 100,000,000,000,000 to 10,000,000,000,000,000 (ten quadrillion): The Universe ends in a Big Crunch according to Frank Tipler's Omega Point Theory, but its inhabitants experience an infinite subjective lifetime.
- 10,000,000,000,000,000,000: The Galaxy relaxes gravitationally. Ninety percent of stars escape into intergalactic space while the rest merge with the central Black Hole.
- 1040: Beginning of the Black Hole Era of our universe.
- 10100 (one googol): If the theory of black hole evaporation is correct, it is predicted by many astronomers that all the black holes in our universe will have evaporated by around this year, the beginning of the dark era of our universe.
- 20874: An Islamic calendar year will be entirely within a Gregorian calendar year of the same number.
- 48900: The Julian calendar and Gregorian calendar will be one year apart.
- 428899: The last year of the Kali Yuga, the current and last of four Hindu Yugas (eras).
- May 28, 60,056: Date range for NTFS expires (264 x 100 nanoseconds since 1601-01-01).
- December 4, 292,277,026,596: 64-bit Unix time resets to zero.
- December 31, 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,8
84,105,727: 128-bit Unix time resets to zero.
So. They turned my baby on today and shot the first rays of particles into the collision tunnel.
It's a carefully planned, slow and a weak start for the greatest machine mankind has ever built.
Everyone knows what I'm talking about; CERN's LHC.
No need to mention all the scifi stories of doomsday, as always - real science is much more interesting than a theoretical microscopic black hole that's able to suck in three iron atoms per day.
But what about the cool stuff!
Quoted from Wikipedia; "When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson. The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared with the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized particles, models and states might be produced, and for some searches are planned, including supersymmetric particles, compositeness, extra dimensions, strangelets, miniature black holes and magnetic monopoles."
And because otherwise this wouldn't be epic enough of an physics article, I'll toss over the formula for determining the Schwarzschild radius of an object:
where
- rs is the Schwarzschild radius,
- G is the gravitational constant.
- m is the mass of the gravitating object, and
- c is the speed of light.
Puzzling.
Earth would have to fit into a size of a peanut...
I've had an excellent summer overall; including fascinating festivals, good food, excellent company in the presence of old and new friends, adventures on foreign soil, facing a lot of issues and putting them behind me. I drank a lot, yes - but while enpowered by liquid courage, I was able to commit myself to such crazy shit that some of it... well, this world will never see again.
Thanks have to be given to all the warm and sweet-ass people who chilled out there with me on those cool summer nights.
Now let's all get back to work and school by september and engage the traditional finnish fall with reloaded batteries.
Hasta la victoria siempre.
manly stuff.
The District of Myyrmäki, eleven bars and nightclubs, twelve hours of time, 100 euros, shit loads of booze.
Man, I'm hammered.
For the full load of pictures, check out my facebook @ Aleksi Ilpala.
,
it has been so fucking amazing that it is killing me to return home tomorrow.
there are no words to describe the cultural shock even after such a short time when i return to finland.
this country has in various aspects dazzled, puzzled and inspired me. my feng-shui is strong.
i will miss the possibility of fetching a beer at any given hour of the day,
and the chance to drink whisky and dine in a bar at 6am in the morning.
miss it how you can sleep in parks, or on the sidewalk, or in the train - and absolutely no one is going to disturb you.
miss the people. ( yes, the lolitas, the hoes, the bros, the korean mobsters, yakuzas, chinese triads, host-boys and girls of shinjuku, the noise musicians, the salarymen, the homeless, the rave kids, the harajuku koopas and god whatever you can think of. )
but embrace the letter " r "
arigato, japan. sayonara.
ps. heading home tomorrow, i will write a long story shorter, but still too long with pictures included.
all thanks to tatu for his excellent purchase of a powerful enough of a camera to capture all the powerful moments.
mahoton kirjottaa tal paskal
mut
tumpun sarjakuvat on vitun rokrok
suimasen, i must puke on vitun rokrok
me hostman on vitun rokrok
rooftoppu on vitun rokrok
se et taa mesta ei nuku on vitun rokrok
yatta!
hard to type but
yakuza + " mi kokusha"＋im a snitch = win
and what about ME?
Well, for starters;
I'll be getting right the fuck out of here tomorrow.
Japan, here I come. All you Harajuku lolitas, cover your asses.
See you when the sun sets.
Bye.
chaos warlord, tiukkaa skedeilyy, tuska ja extreme hypyt kaskisaaren sillalta.
kiitos osaanottajille <3
peace and out, brothers.
jatko-aika
yksi tupakka
WIIIZIWAMBAWEEEEEEEEEE-E
Ihan vitun helmi keissi että lähdin mukaan - oli vitun kivaa ja näin ihan sairaan kasan porukkaa vihdistä pitkästä aikaa. Paikalla oli porukkaa lähemmäs sata ja pojat olivat panostaneet meininkiin täydellisiä soittokamoja myöten saunaan. Yötä myöten väännettiin ja rankkaa oli.
Ensimmäinen yö meni keiton merkeissä juhlien loputtua grillikatoksella kuunnellessa kun Eero ja Turun kakkoskitaristi soittelivat skebaa.
Tuli saavutettua sellainen myönteinen juhannusmeininki aamuun mennessä kun heräsin umpikännissä autosta ja lähdin vetää "rotuminkin" ja "äärimmäinen totuus"-laurin kanssa aurinkoa rannalle ja vittu kävin vielä uimassakin.
Yöllä vedettiin hirveet metsäreivit ja pääsin soittamaan Lion Sleeps Tonightin jolleki ziljoonalle tyypille ja kundit miksas sen highly eeppisesti läpi. Sitten istuinkin saunassa monta tuntia ja selitin äärimmäisissä tuhopoltoissa jälleen kerran myoneista.
Sitten oltiinkin kujalla. Niin vitun kujalla.
Ja ensi vuonna uusiksi.
For a dude who spent four nights sitting on a sofa and drinking beer at Provissirock 08-festival - I feel pretty alright.
Sure, had our hassles and crap, but overall I am profoundly happy I went through it.
We had an awesome group of people at 6AM in the morning singing Lion King and at those very moments, clouded by shitloads of alcohol;
I felt pretty much best in a loong time and there was absolutelu no anxiety in the air, only jamaican love.
Made lotsa new great friends, from lieutenants to potheads and I'd be super-happy to see these people again in the future <3
I told so many stupid jokes during the weekend that there is really no counting them.
But some, some of them did include:
JAMAICA'S ALRIGHT.
KULLI-RAIVO.
DICK-BUTT.
MINNE KATOSIVAT TAIKA-OLENNOT!?
LION SLEEPS TONIGHT.
REPALEMUNA.
yes, i accidentally wrecked off my prince albert piercing very brutally.
lotsa fun.
now for the vids.
i love you.
