Comments on: In the midst of black seas of infinity http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2007/11/25/in-the-midst-of-black-seas-of-infinity/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:41:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Pommer http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2007/11/25/in-the-midst-of-black-seas-of-infinity/comment-page-1/#comment-1494 Pommer Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:41:22 +0000 http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2007/11/25/in-the-midst-of-black-seas-of-infinity/#comment-1494 "There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be..." --Douglas Adams' speech at Digital Biota 2 Cambridge U.K., September 1998 Source: http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/ On a somewhat related note, we all hear stories of people who survive extraordinary circumstances, being adrift in a liferaft for months on end, etc. At some point the survivors will opine, "I never thought something like THAT would happen to me." Of course not. No-one ever thinks, "Today an old lady three blocks away is going to forget to shut her back screendoor and her cat is going to make an escape for some R&R. Said cat is going to run across my street and a gruff but kindly truck driver will swerve to avoid hitting the cat. The truck will veer into opposing traffic and cause a 38 year-old pizza delivery guy to also swerve to miss hitting the truck, he will,instead, hit a telephone pole, killing him. The telephone pole, which had been due to be replaced because of its age will break in half and fall on my car, just as I'm pulling out of the driveway to go to work. I'm calling in sick (again) today. No-one (seriously) thinks such save for fleeting moments of wandering brain activity. Nothing would ever get done for fear of what MAY happen. RP “There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be…” –Douglas Adams’ speech at Digital Biota 2 Cambridge U.K., September 1998

Source: http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/

On a somewhat related note, we all hear stories of people who survive extraordinary circumstances, being adrift in a liferaft for months on end, etc. At some point the survivors will opine, “I never thought something like THAT would happen to me.”

Of course not. No-one ever thinks, “Today an old lady three blocks away is going to forget to shut her back screendoor and her cat is going to make an escape for some R&R. Said cat is going to run across my street and a gruff but kindly truck driver will swerve to avoid hitting the cat. The truck will veer into opposing traffic and cause a 38 year-old pizza delivery guy to also swerve to miss hitting the truck, he will,instead, hit a telephone pole, killing him. The telephone pole, which had been due to be replaced because of its age will break in half and fall on my car, just as I’m pulling out of the driveway to go to work.
I’m calling in sick (again) today.

No-one (seriously) thinks such save for fleeting moments of wandering brain activity. Nothing would ever get done for fear of what MAY happen.

RP

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