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"The sun is roughly halfway through its life, and in about 5 billion years' time will swell into a red giant The swelling sun is expected to swallow the innermost planets Mercury and Venus, and possibly the Earth too...
Perhaps our home will play host to the most beautiful nebula of all. It's a shame we won't be around to see it."

- Hazel Muir, "The Last Blast"
New Scientist 9 July 2005

(photo: Eskimo Nebula, Hubble)

Waking Life

If you haven't seen this yet, now is the time. I first saw it a few years ago, I guess when it was released. I'm not a big fan of Richard Linklater but he did something with "Waking Life". They all did something, all the characters, even (God forbid!) Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. I watched it twice several years ago. I watched it everyday this week. I'm going to watch it again tonight. I wish I could just remember everything, alas my capacity to retain information is extremely limited. Memories, on the other hand, I hold too long and too vividly. I would very much like to hold information and lose memories. Yes, that would be very nice. Yes, indeed.