Wherever we go, there we are. In the truest sense. Arthur Dent found that out. Wherever he went, there he was in his bathrobe trying to figure things out from his own rather wonky point of view. We're like that, too: wherever we go – halfway around the world or down to the corner – we take our own perspectives with us. We can't help it.
Have you noticed something about the h2g2 Post? If you're a long-time reader, you can look at a photo or story title and think, 'Ah, that's So-and-So. I recognise their take on things.' This is what we're talking about. We have individual styles. This is good. We're not a one-size-fits-all outfit. We are flexible.
Just now, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder is jumping up and down (okay, figuratively, but she's lots of fun and I like to imagine her doing this) telling people that you cannot communicate information over a distance at faster-than-light speeds. While my personal experience would seem to contradict this, who am I to argue with a physicist, especially considering how relieved my science professors were when I changed my major to languages? Anyhow, we don't need to exceed any quantum speed limits. We're fine with the internet. We think, we write; we take photos; we make videos. And sooner or later, they end up here. And you see them. And you think back at us.
Isn't spacetime a marvelous thing?
And even though I know you haven't read this yet, in spite of Professor Dr Hossenfelder, I can hear you saying, 'Oh, shut up, Dmitri, and tell us what's in the issue!' I hear, and I obey.
We have:
- Exciting bird videos! Tavaron will tell you things you did not know about blackbird parenting. I will show you a mugging routine by a bluejay that will make you laugh.
- Other things that fly, including an arrow-marked babbler and some planes that seem to have flown in through a hole in the spacetime continuum. Also swans, swimming.
- Some things that don't fly, including a large, angry bird. It may be angry because it is stuck in a tree in Scotland. Also badgers.
- Weird, weird things: the outside of a round house. The inside of a really strange church. An amazing mural.
- Beautiful things: Gardens are blooming. Feast your eyes upon floral splendour.
- Fiction!!! I have a short story for you scifi nerds. Also, THREE of our ongoing novellas – you know, the ones that started last November? – are finishing in this week's issue. Get in on the series finales! The rest of us had trouble with our characters. They got too exuberant. It will take us longer to extricate them from their dilemmas. Tavaron says that if that one guy doesn't start answering questions, we'll be here forever. So go and read, already. FYI, the archive will be there forever, too – even if the internet gobbles it again, I'll just put it up, call me Sisyphus. So you can read the whole thing from start to finish.
- Humour. We have definitive proof this week that these are jokes. Go and read what Bluebottle has drawn. I dare you not to laugh.
- A movie review. In the interest of everybody's sanity beginning with my own, I looked this movie up to make sure it existed. Alas, it does, and double-alas, Awix is really enthusiastic about it. I am starting to think I need to find what Castaneda called 'the crack between the worlds,' as the only parallel universe I am interested in is one that doesn't have Spiderman Spider-Verses in it. PLEASE read this review: it is well-written and an impassioned plea for this sort of film. And PLEASE let the author know whether you would like to go and see this film or not. I need to know whether I should contact Sabine Hossenfelder about the possibilities of dimensional travel.
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Quote of the Week: [H]aving given a description of the iconic Vickers Machine Gun and its characteristics. Feeling satisfied with my explanation, I paused to take questions. A 9-year-old member of the group asked, "Why does the Vicar need a Machine Gun?"
– Mike Peters, historian, battlefield guide, and author
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