Thursday, July 30, 2015

Explorations

Inside Stephen Hawking's $100 Million Search For Alien Life

abcnews.go.com › Technology
Jul 21, 2015 - The cosmologist is throwing his support behind a $100 million initiative, ...best opportunity yet to take a gamble on finding life outside Earth.

Stephen Hawking backs new initiative to find life beyond Earth

www.msnbc.com/.../stephen-hawking-backs-new-initiative-find-life-bey...
Jul 21, 2015 - A new $100 million initiative, backed by a Russian entrepreneur and endorsed by physicist Stephen Hawking, has been launched in search of  ...

Russian billionaire and Stephen Hawking announce $100 ...

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Jul 20, 2015 - The quest for finding life outside our planet just hit the accelerator, thanks ... outside our planet and creating digital messages to transmit beyond Earth. ... “We will target the nearest 1 million stars and the nearest 100 galaxies.



Explorations

It is said, Diogenes, an ancient Greek Philosopher

while not a space explorer

would wander  early mornings 

around the  agora

to look for an honest man.

but rather than putting him in some clinic

they just called him a Cynic. 


And a few centuries  later,  that Pliny the Elder

demanded to be put out sea--

that was round about 79 AD--

to inquire of his friend Pomponius,

if this story is not erroneous,

while  investigating  an erupting volcano 

and , as  we now know m 

his curiosity

was  extremely  rash 

because he made an ash 

of himself you see

 -- and it became his cemetery



And lastly I will  also  mention 

Groucho' Marx's  humorous invention 

of Captain Spaulding,The African Explorer 

(but please don't call him  schnorrer *)

with  head covered by a topee.

and smoking a cheap stogie

while looking for a trophy,


But all these are now to be  far out done

by this newest ultra high tech stalking

around many another sun

aided and abetted by Stephen Hawking

using an ex Russian billionaire's dough---

but I hope they will go slow,

because just a brief glance at all our strife

and now  I speak with little mirth--

shows we could use much more intelligent life **

right here down on earth. 


HZL
7/27/15


* PS: For those too young and/or not ethnically endowed enough to know,
a schnorrer is an aggressive jewish beggar who feels entitled to whatever belongs to you.  
He is thus  related to many modern day lawyers, stockbrokers, hedge fund guys, politicians, etc.

Diogenes of Sinope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
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Jump to Cynicism - Cynic ideas are inseparable from Cynic practice; therefore what we know about Diogenes is contained in anecdotes concerning his life  ...

Pliny the Elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder
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Pliny the Elder died on August 25, AD 79, whilst attempting to rescue Pomponianus ...Pliny's dates are pinned to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 and a ..... refers to a very violent eruption of a volcano marked by columns of smoke and ash  ...

Captain Spalding's African Adventures - Groucho Marx ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPSAu8xfmhk
May 31, 2010 - Uploaded by CapSpauldingsChicken
Captain Spalding's African Adventures - Groucho Marx ....Hooray For Captain Spaulding from "ANIMAL CRACKERS" - Duration: 4:40. by  ...

Captain Spaulding (Animal Crackers) - Wikipedia, the free ...

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Captain Spaulding is the signature character played by actor Groucho Marx for ..."Hooray for Captain Spaulding", became forever associated with Groucho in  ..

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