EELRIJUE: Learning from Outer Space

There are no coincidences in the Kali Yuga. Every rapper in the known Universe released something on 1/11/11 because who could pass up a visual hook like that? Out past the horizons of hip hop, NASA dropped a new release for the 11th, too: the third epic version of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Behold, the known Universe:



The cracks in our perception are being mapped out and given names...cognitive bias and The Decline Effect, "Mirror" Neurons and most bizarrely of all, the omnipresent hum of Pink noise. Mystics are generally very down on our delusions, and scientists often lament our limitations, but perhaps these are all features and not bugs. Perhaps you're flawed just right.



The next auspicious date is January 23rd, and Brother Jacques Vallee has lined up something quite tasty for those with eyes to see. At the Global Competitiveness Forum, an organization every bit as Darwinian as they sound, Vallee is leading a strange panel on a worthy subject: Learning from Outer Space. Here's the summary from the GCF site...



Who is running this Panel? Quite a cast: Vallee, Michio Kaku, Nick Pope, and Stan Friedman. (For the record, Algorhythms has no love for Friedman.) The venue is Riyadh, which sounds like the home of Cthulu but is actually the biggest city in Saudi Arabia - admission is $5000.