in the time it takes you to read this sentence, your meatsack of a body has been hurtled approximately 54 miles through space

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that is, if you read at about the same speed I do.

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:06 (eighteen years ago)

and this is disincluding any consideration of universal expansion rates.

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

You neglected to mention drunkeness.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

question: what are the odds of ever being in the same place twice? how eccentric is the earth's orbit? how close can i ever get to being right here, again?

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:10 (eighteen years ago)

not drunk! just spent a long time staring at the full moon, going slightly werewolfy... elliptic + solipsistic

http://www.nwlink.com/~erick/silentera/Melies/GM-02-A.GIF

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr130/im/moon-phases-lrg-cidadao-sm.jpg

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

full moon was last night chumpo

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

question: what are the odds of ever being in the same place twice? how eccentric is the earth's orbit? how close can i ever get to being right here, again?

If you take into account solar movement in the Milky Way, and the galaxy's outward movement in the universe, you'll never be here again. Or here. Or...here.

― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

54 miles in relation to what?

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:18 (eighteen years ago)

full moon was last night chumpo

-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...), February 2nd, 2007 9:17 PM.

not where I live. it was at 5.47 today.

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

well, the 54 miles / 3 seconds takes into account both a rough figuring of the speed of planetary rotation and an approximation of earth's velocity in a perfectly circular orbit: I guess the 'in relation' would be between two positions in space fixed at a 3 second interval?

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'm drunk, not you! So it takes me a lot longer to read the sentence!
I kept on having to go back and read the first part again. So maybe I am travelling in my meatsack a bit slower?
That would be good, because I love Amtrak.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/images/aphelion/orbits.gif

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

"In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time."
-- Somerset Maugham

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

"With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it."
-- Henry Beston, The Outermost House - 1933

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

"The heavens themselves run continually round, the sun riseth and sets, the moon increaseth, stars and planets keep their constant motions, the air is tossed by the winds, the waters ebb and flow, to their conservation no doubt, to teach us that we should ever be in motion."
-- Robert Burton

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

"It is He Who maketh the stars (as beacons) for you, that ye may guide yourselves, with their help, through the dark spaces of land and sea: We detail Our signs for people who know."

-- The Holy Qur'an 006:097 Al-An'am

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:33 (eighteen years ago)

thread made me think of herzogs wild blue yonder 's nice rant about space travel :turning everything in sight into fuel including sun etc at top speed we can achieve of today it would take like 500 generations to get to the closest lethal star that is at 4.5 light years, the closest non lethal he says is at 200 000 light years yea

― SÆbästìên (immortalist), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/8/87/Gemini_constellation_map_visualization.PNG

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ufrsd.net/staffwww/stefanl/myths/gemini.jpg

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

starmap according to the BBC, though less accurate for us close to the equator

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:42 (eighteen years ago)

"It is like a monstrous meatsack that hovers, biding its time."

There we are.

Thinking about the cosmos's empty depths = you are either H. P. Lovecraft or Michael Gira.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

One night I slept in H.P. Lovecraft's old room. True story! Possibly he inhabited my body? His wandering shade? Infiltrated, subtly?

The night I spent in Lovecraft's room I had a memorable dream. Over ten years ago and I remember every detail. In the dream I was invited to a minstrel show. But the minstrels didn't show. Actually, the theater wasn't even real. I bought my ticket and entered a room full of scaffolding, all of it left over from the stuff used to refurbish the Statue of liberty. A a number of 8" x 8" blank canvases hung high on the scaffolding. I climbed up to view one, which took some time + considerable effort. The canvas seemed blank, except when tilted a certain which-way. When tilted, it beamed directly into my brain a piece of special knowledge:

True dogs are not trainable. The animals we call dogs (domesticated dogs, house dogs, pets) are actually only simulacra of dogs, and are all the 3-dimensional protrusions of a 4th dimensional being that feeds on affection, that subsists on primal love. These dog simulacra - housepets - which seem too needy, too sweet, to be true are basically just the intake tubes of a big complex beast that lives in some suprauniverse. The begrudging respect accorded by house'dogs' (glorified tentacles) to their owners is part of a complex symbiotic relationship intended to keep us psychically dependent on 'dogs' and unaware of their true purpose.

I was so startled I fell off the scaffolding. The dream ended shortly thereafter. I lay in Lovecraft's old bedroom, thinking at some length of the possibility of my observation. I decided that 'real' dogs such as wolves, foxes, dingos bore no relation to the happy-puppy simulacra humans take care of, save that they provided the basic shape for the 4th dimensional being's corporealization of the primal-love receptors.

To this day I am vaguely unsettled by the suspicion that I may have received a piece of temporally mismarked oneiric postage intended for HP Lovecraft, and even more unsettled by the suspicion that he may have received some of my nightmail.

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 06:14 (eighteen years ago)

Remy I love yr threads. I really hope you start making films some day.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 3 February 2007 06:40 (eighteen years ago)

thanks, yo!

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 07:21 (eighteen years ago)

I guess the 'in relation' would be between two positions in space fixed at a 3 second interval?

I'm guessing it's just total travel distance, along two different arcs -- a straight-line distance would get really mathematically complicated. (The only complication to the 54 miles verdict is, like, what if you were near one of the Earth's poles.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 3 February 2007 07:48 (eighteen years ago)

that's why equatorial people take such long siestas, nabisco. because they're tuckered out out from zipping around the universe.

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thetruevinerecordshop.com/moondog%20image.jpg

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/b4/250px-Futurama_ep52.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 3 February 2007 08:30 (eighteen years ago)

Logarithmic map of the universe:

http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe/pocketmap.gif

It breaks my heart that even if I am exceedingly lucky I will never get more than 1AU away from this earth.

― ledge (ledge), Saturday, 3 February 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

(click for bigger version)

― ledge (ledge), Saturday, 3 February 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

There is pretty close to a zero % chance that you will ever achieve a distance of 25 miles away from the earth.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 3 February 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

every time i hear some tantalizing thing like that, austin, a one-way psychedelic trip into to the ethnogenic hinterlands sounds more compelling. seriously, why pour all NASA money into rocket fuel + plastics research, when powerful mind-edifying drugs (with potentials toward astral projection, etc.,) could be funded to a much more receptive public's benefit?

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://blogs.salon.com/0003379/images/2004/05/17/rozztoxshirt.jpg

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

thanks for quoting the Koran, now we can't delete this thred.

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

/joek

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

you should read "how to get everything you want by being a complete asshole" by l. ron asshat.

― viborg (viborg), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

from what perspective are we talking about? I'm sorry, but so-called facts have never even bought me a beer.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

WOW.

that is one of the coolest things I have ever read on ILX.

remy, have you ever read Rudy Rucker's book on the 4th dimension? it allows for exactly that kind of posibility. I always thought about this whole 3-D manifestaton of 4-D beings but never heard anybody else talk about it (except Rucker).

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

question: what are the odds of ever being in the same place twice? how eccentric is the earth's orbit? how close can i ever get to being right here, again?

Does that not depend on where you more or less arbitrarily choose to fix the spatial origin of everything?

Also,

http://www.complex.unifi.it/twiki/pub/Education/DomandeERisposteDiFisicaElementare/melies_moon.jpg

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

I think he means from a heliocentric grid.

― UART variations (ex machina), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ah. Yes. The centre would then be fixed, but the spatial angles? I ask merely from ignorance.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 3 February 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

There is pretty close to a zero % chance that you will ever achieve a distance of 25 miles away from the earth.

My heart was already broken, no need to crush its fragments under your heel.

― ledge (ledge), Sunday, 4 February 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't know they used dodgy MSPaint effects in 1902! How forward thinking the French were!

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 4 February 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

We travel at a million miles an hour, just sitting on a bus, stuck in traffic. That might cure some road rage...

― Fire and Worms (kate), Sunday, 4 February 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

REMY, "DOG" IS "GOD" SPELLED BACKWARDS!!!! OMG!!!!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

grow a soul, daddino

― 冷明, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 07:25 (eighteen years ago)

oh wate, that wasn't sarcastic.

― 冷明, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 07:25 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i liked this thread

― remy bean, Friday, 12 September 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

stop hurtling my meatsack!

― Dan I., Friday, 12 September 2008 01:07 (seventeen years ago)

Hm, its funny re-reading your dogs are tentacles dream, its sort of the plot of the latest Futurama film -only those tentacles didnt diguise themselves, they just glued themselves to everyone and loved them. It was quite ... odd.

― Trayce, Friday, 12 September 2008 01:09 (seventeen years ago)

nothing but void, this space

― Vas Djifrens, Friday, 12 September 2008 02:02 (seventeen years ago)

This space available. Contact ILX.

― Aimless, Friday, 12 September 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

bump

― they call him (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 00:33 (fourteen years ago)

(since i posted this, i've traveled more than 183,791,462,400 miles. how about you, chump?)

― they call him (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 00:51 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

95.

oh wate, that wasn't sarcastic.

This has bothered for some time: no, it definitely was not sarcastic.

― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 5 August 2012 16:51 (thirteen years ago)

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