Filed under: California, climate change, futurism, Uncategorized | Tags: California, climate change, earthquakes
Since Weather West’s latest blog post and paper in Nature Climate Change got a lot of media attention, why not feed him even more links? Anyway, the blog post is cool, the NCC paper is paywalled and I haven’t gotten around to asking him (Daniel Swain, the genius behind Weather West) for a copy yet. And I figured I’d get back to talking about climate change for a post or two.
Filed under: deep time, fantasy, science fiction, Speculation | Tags: black holes, science fiction, spring silliness
Hi, I’m avoiding writing yet another response to yet another badly conceived development. So I’m wasting time writing a blog post. This here dubious speculation is something I cooked up over on Antipope a little while ago, and just to make it easier to find the idea and mock it (or whatever), I figured I’d write it up here. This is my two-bit, I’m-not-even-good-at-physics-let-alone-a-cosmologist take on multiverse formation. Read it in that spirit.
As background, I’ve come to the conclusion that a rational society, especially an interstellar society, could do worse than to revere black holes. After all, without SgrA*, the giant black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way wouldn’t exist and neither would we, so that’s our creator, at least in the local sense. Since it appears that our ruling demon sultan SgrA* may be surrounded by a swarm of lesser black holes, I sometimes wonder if we should rename SgrA* “Azathoth.” Especially if it turns out that those lesser black holes are emitting either drum-like beats of gravitational waves and/or monotonous, radio-frequency fluting whines. Unfortunately, calling our creator and ultimate doom “Azathoth” would enshrine a rather nasty bit of islamophobia that Lovecraft emitted. But none of that’s the point here.
Putting the life back in science fiction 