Technology is not evil and technology is not safe. Technology is dangerous, dirty, harmful and we love it. We love it, beause the alternative is infinitely worse.
Some technicalities of black holes.
The Technological Singularity is a concept that tells us why to fear progress itself. Luckily, the Singularity does not exist, the Exponential Function does, but it is our friend.
The idolization of nature is a primitive folklore that's far from being just annoying, it is a dangerous and thoroughly harmful ideology, and it is not even fun.
In this lightly technical paper, an algorithm is introduced to create procedurally generated Elite syle star maps with quadrillions of stars or more. As a bonus, a mega-maze is also presented.
Celestia picture of the hour
This picture was created with Celestia virtual planetarium. Click to see in full. A new image is generated every hour, the object, the time and the direction is randomly chosen. It is not that simple, but that's the gist of it.
