You’re tuned to Radio Sunclipse, first on your RSS dial. It’s Monday morning in our local reference frame, and it’s time for a golden oldie: here’s Uncle Carl himself explaining how we can do geometry in different numbers of dimensions:
You know, his voice does sound a little like Agent Smith.
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“I’d like to share a revelation I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. You are made of star stuff.”
And also:
“Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions and billions of stars just living out their life-cycles, oblivious”
A classic piece of video, always a pleasure. The Smith/Sagan mashup is truly inspired too.
Joshua:
OK, OK, I guess you win the Internet for today.
Incidentally, the Google Ad on my sidebar right now is offering “Discount Cosmos Tours” — are people really brash about selling drugs these days, or did somebody invent FTL travel while I wasn’t looking?
I’m looking at a Google ad for “Zombie Lawmen”. And you better believe I’m going to follow that link in just a second.
Ok, don’t bother. There’s nothing on the site but links to parked spam-domains.
Bastards.
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