Inanimate Objects

The very best of luck to The Tigers, you get some good memories and I hope they playoff with The Cardinals and win.

T60p and lamps etc, what is the word to describe ascribing human emotions to inanimate objects? Ah yes, Pathetic Fallacy -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy

David Hume once wrote this is why we create Gods, unexplained things happen and we have tendencies to attribute them to dieties, and the more that probability plays a role in our lives the more that we are inclinded to invent dieties. Everyone has an opinion!

Still, nice machines the T60p's.

I hope that "your other half" is home safely and not too scarred from her whipping.

I trust that your cat is getting fat and remaining happy also.

Things are good here, both girls are in the house, well outside in the street at the moment and playing happily, which is how it should be in my book :-)

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I am wondering whether we will colonize the entire Universe one day and I think we will. I was wondering about the vastness of it all, looking at pictures from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (http://www.sdss.org/) every inch of the sky seems to be covered by galaxies, you can see the bright stars in our galaxy in the foreground, but look deeper past them, behind then is just, well, more galaxies. It's a big Universe.

Still, as I showed in an earlier post, travelling at just 1 gee of acceleration you can get to the edge of the known Universe in just 25 Earth years ship travel time, due to the effect on time from travelling at relativistic speeds.

Imagine though if you or I could travel on a lightbeam? Then time would stop and we could go anywhere without feeling that time had elapsed. How long would it take to transmit you or I through a lightbeam? Well our consciousness is only about a petaflop of processing power (well maybe a few petaflops in your case) and a petabyte of data, so should take minutes if not seconds with quantum computing technology. When we got there we could say "hi". Going there alone might be pretty lonely at the other end however.