The future is now

Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen, 2022)  

Children in the library. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Buryat ASSR, 1959).

Hey! Let me tell you a little about my day, Mr. Jolly Olly Man. The brown-out shut down my air conditioner, my bag of ice melted before I could get it home, I couldn’t get into the movie theater, or the city pool. And now when I finally found a little relief from the heat, a little ice cream, you snatched it away. You better sell me some ice cream at a fair price, or face the consequences. Heat | Hey Arnold! | Air date November 4, 1996

Credit: O.J. Loukola et al., Science (2017)

And, I should point out, we are no closer to being able to spot the extra-dimensional stick “people” who move unobserved among us.

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“The man he faced was everything Obi-Wan had devoted his life to destroying: Murderer. Traitor. Fallen Jedi. Lord of the Sith. And here, and now, despite it all…Obi-Wan still loved him.           Yoda had said it, flat-out: Allow such attachments to pass out of one’s life, a Jedi must, but Obi-Wan had never let himself understand. He had argued for Anakin, made excuses, covered for him again and again and again; all the while this attachment he denied even feeling had blinded him to the dark path his best friend walked.”  — Matthew Stover, Revenge of the Sith