A few decades ago, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) tied up with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) to help intercept cosmic radiations of a particular frequency that scientists hoped would contain valuable information about the beginning of the universe. The project was named NASA-SETI ET Transmission Search Co-operation. After almost twenty-five years of fruitless …
Category: Philosophy
Silence Must Be Heard
Shoptomi It’s 7:25, oh, sorry, 26 now. Today’s sort of a big day. I have an outing with her. I thought Life of Pi was a book on math. Turns out it isn’t. You know, sometimes the brain becomes so blank and stupid and you can’t extract anything from it and the more you try …
Missing
I had trusted Reason. Turned out there isn’t anybody by that name, and yet everyone else seems to know him. I swear I had all his contacts right here — his phone number on the directory, his address, his photograph, everything, before I set out for him. They told me to go to the End …
A Tale of Two Strings
Once upon a time there were two strings. They sprouted like fresh spring flowers from two holes in an old mucky wooden plank lying on the ground next to an overgrown mountain trail. Neither of them knew what lay under the plank, and neither did they care, so maybe that is not worth mentioning. What …
Tell me something…
I stared at the busy crossing. There was a red light, and the line of cars was whining to get going. The afternoon sun was beating down on the city and the traffic policeman who stood on the stand was visibly tired and in a bad mood. I stood on the pavement with her and …
One Life 