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“Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.” - Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It , Goodreads .  OddsnEnds -  Fascinating conversation via the Space Studies Institute. Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill and Dr. Isaac Asimov discuss Space colonies and how it is more practical, for multiple reasons, to house people on space vessels rather than a planetary surface - such as the moon.  Soundcloud . Asimov used the term “planetary chauvinism” to refer to the systematic bias of science fiction toward planetary exploration. O'Neill proposed an alternative vision in which human beings would not seek to colonize planets, but instead build their own enclosed cylindrical space habitats. Source . "We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the...

Programming the power to overcome. Start here: “To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalists, Transcendentalism OddsnEnds - Outta sight! Fireball capture from Space: Newsweek   AI Drones vs. Human Drones . AI Drone Pilots don't get tired. Racing UFO Sightings Triple? Yahoo   Interview with Cheryl Costa , UFO Sightings Desk Reference , December 10 KCMO Talk Radio 710, 8pm central time. UFO Stalker for the newest sightings. Animal Consciousness , Do Fish Suffer? LATimes Yes. Scientific American Researchers continue to try to debunk ghosts (And ALL UFOs according to this NASA source: Newsweek . Space Dandruff: Atlas Obscura. ) and other PSI experiences as delusional: Gizmodo. However, the stats show we are stubborn in our knowing and believing otherwise: According to Pew Resear...

“Mathematical truth is not determined arbitrarily by the rules of some 'man-made' formal system, but has an absolute nature , and lies beyond any such system of specifiable rules .” - Roger Penrose , Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness   Quantum Streaming Math and Theories - Issue 47. Nautilus. - Quantum Consciousness Theorist, " Penrose believes we must go beyond Neuroscience and into the mysterious world of Quantum Mechanics to explain our rich mental life." View his presentation, The Quantum Nature of Consciousness/YouTube. Of Roger Penrose , Physicist Lee Smolin/Time Reborn says, he's "one of the very few people I've met in my life who, without reservation, I call a genius." Smolin in S cientific American - Physics Must Evolve.  Eclectic and otherwise, Interesting Links - Perfect timing on this one: Astronomers report evidence of the Multiverse. Reported 5/2017, The Guardian Mad H...