Tuesday, March 18, 2014

PSA: After-death avatar


It is being claimed that immortality should be possible for the "wealthy elite" by 2045. This should be achieved through fully functional holographic human avatars. Now you should ask yourself, is it human and normal to talk to a person who has passed away a long time ago? You are still alive and you can't hold on the past. Instead you have to keep all the good memories connected to the person you lost and let bad feelings go away. I mean would you want your brain to be "transplanted into an artificial body"? Give it a serious thought!

Monday, March 17, 2014

CAJ #1: First thoughts

Space Exploration


→ “the ongoing discovery and exploration of celestial structures in outer space”


I found a quite impressive website about exploring the universe online → http://htwins.net/scale2/ !!!!


“Earth is the cradle of humanity, but it is impossible to live forever in the cradle”
~ Tsiolkovski



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  • a waste of money?
  • new life?
  • new world? new civilization?
  • destinations

  • planetary science


HOW?
  • robotic probes
  • human spaceflight


Summer triangle
  • Lyra constellation
    • Vega
    • Altair
    • Deneb



Interesting facts:


Procyon
  • over next 10 mio years it will grow to 100 times bigger and turn red


→ If all the 7 billion humans stood on top of one another, the stack would approx. be 10 million kilometers tall.
  • 7 times bigger than the sun!




Links

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/







Friday, March 14, 2014

A day in life of Monika



It's a typical Monday morning. My alarm goes off at 4:45 and I am still in my cosy little land of dreams. To snooze it I know I simply have to tap the screen, so that's what I do automatically. I snooze the alarm to get at least another nine minutes of sleep.



Next I go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face. Then I prepare my beloved breakfast - a classical oatmeal with fruits. I really can't get enough of it so I literally eat it every single morning.



As I need to start working at 6 AM I leave the house around 5:30 AM. After a six-hour shift (or four-hour shift depends on how I have class that afternoon) I drive home to leave the car in the garage. At noon I sometimes have a quick meal before I head to university.


Usually I have three to four classes a day and am finished around three or five o'clock. When the weather is nice I like to walk home from university, otherwise I take the bus. When I arrive at home, my mother has prepared something delicious to eat. I am really thankful to have my family waiting for me at home and supporting me no matter what. In the evening I like to relax and do my homework (if there is some).