Stress does strange and wonderful things

[azekeil]

At the moment I'm stressed. I have a lot to do at work (although I've found made a lull in which to post this) and I'm fighting off some illness as well. I'm not sure my responses to things are in the 'normal' range either, so for now I'm going to sit on them until I work things out for myself a bit more.

At any rate, kweilo provided a nice reminder/distraction/escape for something I've seen before, and I browsed the site with the page on giant spacecraft (the 'BIG' tab) to see the Dyson sphere - the concept of a giant hollow sphere engulfing a star, with people living on the inside. A link from that page goes into lots more detail about the theory behind it and works of science fiction that have used this and other similar concepts as the basis of their stories, which is (to me) absolutely fascinating.

kissycat1000, in one of her rather mysteriously timely ways, sent me a link of news of a discovery of a near-by earth-like planet.

In my state of escapism, it made me nostalgic for an era of space travel and colonisation I'll never see - which quite frankly is nuts, but it's bittersweet to think about.

Last night we watched Event Horizon. It's a good film, but I remember being very disappointed the first time I watched it because it promised to be all spacey and then turned out to be a horror film which happened to be set in space.

I think I need to see Sunshine as a matter of urgency.

Comments

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

kissycat1000, in one of her rather mysteriously timely ways, sent me a link of news of a discovery of a near-by earth-like planet.
Fear my mysterious powers! Or, I saw it and thought of you... ;)

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

Do you not think of me as well with such things?
I had found and read the story already of course...

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

Yes, I thought of you too, but you're not on IMs. Then of course I thought about emailing you, realised that you check that site and would certainly have already seen it, so didn't bother. :)

DO YOU SEE!

[nemy.livejournal.com]

Yeah Sunshines quite cool. Various haomages to 2001 and Event Horizon in it which kept me happy and I'll agree that the directing was excellent. Howver there is at least one plot item that I nthought was abit of a cop out. But yes go.

Strangely I liked Event Horizon _because_ I was expecting something in the vein of 2001 and _got_ instead a surprise "mind-rape". I did take san loss from that film.

Have you taken the time to freeze farme through all the subliminal imagery......thats an extra special treat!

Re: DO YOU SEE!

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

No, not yet. I did see there was some interesting stuff in there...

[zoedoll.livejournal.com]

If at any point an expedition to see Sunshine is required - count me in! Danny Boyle, Cillian Murphy, tis all good ;)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Heh, OK, will try to let you know when we do :)

[theeighth.livejournal.com]

Dyson spheres are retarded.
Even at like 1m thick, they would take more than a couple of solar systems worth of mass as-iron to make.

Rings are much betterer