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madokie

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Fri Nov 15, 2013, 09:41 AM Nov 2013

40 billion ways to dance - Mark Morford

Every day it’s the same: At any given moment, someone, somewhere is discovering something either quiet or grand, miniscule or momentous, that changes the way we think, the way we hold space, the way we perceive the mind, the world, the galaxy and even reality itself, to the point where we will likely never be the same again.

Even better? This stunning flow of ideas and discoveries, debunkings and feral potentialities is not the slightest bit linear. It is, instead, as the mystics and gurus have known for millennia, a leaping, looping, lurching thing, jumping up and spitting divine fire before folding back on itself, only to ignite anew and singe the eyebrows of your jaded and wary soul.

Do you recognize it? It’s nothing short of the cosmic dance itself, the ceaseless winking of Shiva’s third eye, a trickster angel with Tourette’s and a flamethrower.

Behold, the Kepler spacecraft. Its foremost (and now defunct, as it sadly broke down late last year) duty: rabid and fast-panting calculations of the stars in our tiny galaxy, in the hopes of calculating just how many might have stable, rocky planets swirling around them that might be similar to, well, Earth.

The Rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/11/12/40-billion-ways-to-dance/

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