Extremophilia
I was wondering why Pluto is such an important milestone.
It reminded me of something Walter Murch said (or borrowed from another source), something to the effect of--"It is frequently at the edges of things that we learn most about the middle: ice and steam can reveal more about the nature of water than water alone ever could."
Or Eno's motto: "Go to an extreme and retreat to a more useful position", in this case going somewhere with less eye candy and more "nutrition".
I was also thinking about this at the super big-picture level: This is more evidence that our current civilization is not even close to being a Type I civilization on the Kardashev Scale.
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Postscript:
Apparently Kepler has detected a planet around a star that has orbiting structures, or perhaps some type of Dysonsphere, indicating a Type II advanced civilization. [More]
It reminded me of something Walter Murch said (or borrowed from another source), something to the effect of--"It is frequently at the edges of things that we learn most about the middle: ice and steam can reveal more about the nature of water than water alone ever could."
Or Eno's motto: "Go to an extreme and retreat to a more useful position", in this case going somewhere with less eye candy and more "nutrition".
I was also thinking about this at the super big-picture level: This is more evidence that our current civilization is not even close to being a Type I civilization on the Kardashev Scale.
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Postscript:
Apparently Kepler has detected a planet around a star that has orbiting structures, or perhaps some type of Dysonsphere, indicating a Type II advanced civilization. [More]
