Comments on: Convergences https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/19/convergences/ Fri, 20 May 2011 12:56:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Birger Johansson https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503083 Fri, 20 May 2011 12:56:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503083 Connections… Charles “Eschaton” Stross wrote his first Laundry novel a few years back, the one with a Nazi enclave on an airless world in an alternate reality.
A few years ago, the Finns started working on a film called “Iron Sky”…. yes, that one (cool music, Rammstein I think). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drtTGRjHH9s&feature=related
Cause and effect? Is the script writer a Stross fan?

As for pseudoconnections, do not get me started on the “morphic resonance” drivel of the 1990s 🙂

]]> By: Alan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503082 Fri, 20 May 2011 10:13:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503082 Greg, yes they were both done by the same guy but I thought the column came first, probably because I read it before seeing the TV series. Didn’t see the second series, I might be wrong but I don’t think it was aired here in Oz.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503081 Fri, 20 May 2011 04:15:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503081 Alan, did you ever see the TV series on which the SciAm column was based? (There were two runs at it … “Connections” and “Return of Connections” or “Connections II” or something)

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503080 Fri, 20 May 2011 02:07:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503080 Too bloody cool…

]]> By: Jeff Sherry https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503079 Fri, 20 May 2011 01:36:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503079 It has been a quite a while since I visited the Intersection. I didn’t realize C. Mooney was doing a solo.

]]> By: Alan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503078 Fri, 20 May 2011 00:30:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/19/convergences/#comment-503078 I used to enjoy a column in SciAm called “connections”, my favorite article showed that the maximum practical diameter of the space shuttle’s booster rockets was limited to 2X the width of a horse’s arse.

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