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Six Reasons Why 'You' Don't Exist...

Friday, February 10, 2006 → by Danieru
Our Baryonic Nature

by Mac Tonnies
Posthuman Blues
Mactonnies.com

Astronomers are learning that the vast majority of the universe's matter takes a form that eludes casual analysis. We've found that we're an anomaly; if there's such a thing as a "galactic federation" or universal hive-mind, our baryonic nature might preclude membership.

Perhaps we're the outcasts, cosmic untouchables whiling away the millennia in the stale galactic margins.

So I write from a perspective of profound isolation - existing, but only barely. And hoping the dark matter gods deign to materialize in our skies...

Explore more galactic ideas in my book After the Martian Apocalypse from Amazon!

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Mac Tonnies
Posthuman Blues
Mactonnies.com


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