{"id":112,"date":"2006-12-24T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=112"},"modified":"2006-12-24T01:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T05:44:00","slug":"space-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Space Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sasquatch, UFO’s, Bermuda Triangle, and now –Space Heads.<\/i><\/p>\n

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What am I talking about? Imagine that outer space is something like the ocean: mostly empty but “infected” with life. We don’t expect to find something. We don’t expect to get a cold. But we’re not surprised when it happens. Probability says, it’s going to happen, instinct says, not today.<\/p>\n

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Space Heads, the micro-plankton of the space: floating, primitive …collectible.<\/p>\n

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An extra z here, a cos instead of a tan over there. Change the + to a ^ and you’ve got a new Space Head. Or just some new space.<\/p>\n


Tiera-zon 2.7 parameter files (.zar) “spaceheads.zip”<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

There’s fractals and then there’s the other stuff, hard to categorize or describe: Floating; unconnected but associated; head-like. Space Heads.<\/p>\n

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They are primitive because they are basic and close to the trunk of the tree, unlike ourselves, complex creatures, who form the distant tip of a limb. It’s no surprise to find them represented in the fossil record; ancient, the earliest of iterations, almost timeless, drifting in time.<\/p>\n

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Haven’t fractal generators changed the world? Before, there was the wilderness -the natural world, and there were the cities -the places of human design. But now there is a new place, half-natural, half-human, neither of those, transcending both.<\/p>\n

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On the frontier, few things are labelled and nothing is categorized. The question, “What is it?” has not yet occurred. We look, we wander, we forget what brought us here.
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Sasquatch, UFO’s, Bermuda Triangle, and now –Space Heads. What am I talking about? Imagine that outer space is something like the ocean: mostly empty but “infected” with life. We don’t expect to find something. We don’t expect to get a cold. But we’re not surprised when it happens. 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