Can it get any more grim!? Why, yes! How about the swell idea that you're just a brain in a bottle being tortured by the evil genius? It's awfully similar to ideas that turn up in Hollywood science fiction like The Matrix and Dark City. Well, that's the end of volume 2 folks. I won't be making more posts until we get back from The Big Trip. For more on that, visit goin' with the a-go-gos. Want more wacky thought provoking stuff? Try looking up the Demiurge. That'll keep ya busy for a while.
If we reject the arbitrary creator, is that the death of it? If the arbitrary creator is dead, what meaning can we have? Oh, to heck with meaning. We're all here for such a short visit, better try to have a good time.
Continuing with all this dimensional hooey... So, you're walking along minding you're own business and you think the world is flat. Well, just look at it. It looks flat, don't it? You keep walking toward the rising sun every morning and presume that one day you'll find the edge. Nope, you don't find the edge, but you arrive back at the place you started. Hmm... either you walked in a circle without knowing it or you're walking on a three dimensional curved surface, eureka!
What the hell is Panspermia? The big idea is that life on earth has it's origin in biologically active material that somehow survived a trip across interplanetary or interstellar space. You may recall the controversy from several years back regarding some rocks of Martian origin found on Earth that seemed to contain trace evidence of biological activity inside. The pitch was that this rock demonstrated that life once flourished on Mars and rocks like these could have infected Earth with its earliest colonies of life. I like the idea a whole lot. Not because it greatly stretches the length of time available for life to crawl it's way out of chaos all on its own, but because it means we're all Martians after all.
This one came from pondering Big Bang stuff. So what does this have to do with the Big Bang? Not much. It's not an easy thing to put into a comic, but I remembered a silly description of what one's surroundings would look like as an observer at the time when things finally spread out enough to let light get around. Before that moment things were in a super dense hot state but there was no light because things were too tightly packed. So even in this origin story there is a moment when the lights come on (and it isn't at the first instant of the bang). So what would this still very dense soup look like if you could be there? Every direction would look virtually the same in a frustrating sort of way. So in this origin story our hero is faced with many repetitions of an identical view, and as Buckaroo Banzai said, "No matter where you go, there you are." Yep, nothing to do with the Big Bang at all. Sorry to disappoint.
