illusions and dreams » space http://www.archenar.com a weblog about mmorpgs, psychoanalysis and media studies Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:29:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 goodbye 2008 http://www.archenar.com/2008/12/31/goodbye-2008/ http://www.archenar.com/2008/12/31/goodbye-2008/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:01:51 +0000 Sark http://www.archenar.com/?p=67 as the last hours of 2008 tick down i have to admit that 2008 was a fairly good year for me. but i’m not the person that likes to talk about past things. so here’s to the future, to 2009!

what is a more fitting view at the future than going back to the moon? how exciting! funny how they are going back to the good old design from the 1960s. i want to live to see human beings returning to the moon and establishing a permanent base there. additionally, i want to be there when the first human being sets foot on the mars.

]]> http://www.archenar.com/2008/12/31/goodbye-2008/feed/ 0 merry christmas http://www.archenar.com/2008/12/24/merry-christmas/ http://www.archenar.com/2008/12/24/merry-christmas/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:56:49 +0000 Sark http://www.archenar.com/?p=65 today is the 40th anniversary of the first manned journey to the moon. granted, it was ten years before i was even born but still… various accounts of this historic voyage bring chills to my spine. 1968 was a bad year and circling the moon for the very first time brought hope to the people. read more about how the Apollo 8 astronauts remember the historic voyage.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a merry Christmas and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth.

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at the moment i am at the end of season 1 and one thing struck me as weird because i haven’t noticed it before: the subtle religious or spiritual undertone of some episodes. i find it hard to believe that our dominant belief systems can survive another 200 years without any significant changes.

additionally, i am trying to picture the “galaxy” of B5, ie. put it on an actual map of our galaxy and see how big it actually is. google came up with useful information and it seems that the area of space B5 covers is actually pretty small. but still, considering the Voyager probes that were launched from Earth in the 1970s are “only” to leave our solar system now after thirty years countinous travel.

it is New Year’s Eve today and i am not sure what to expect from 2008. maybe i should put it in a B5 like phrase: i want to find something worth living for because nothing is the same anymore.

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