Isao Hashimoto works as curator in a Japanese museum. He is not famous, but a few years back, he made a short film showing the location of nuclear detonation on the planet, in the years 1945 to 1998, that became famous enough for me to find it.

The clip is lengthy and – quite frankly – a bit repetitive, but it serves well the purpose of illustrating the idiocy of the human race. Some data and observations that is easy to extrapolate from watching the film: Read the rest of this entry »

Earlier today, TED released the speech from Dimitar Sasselov titled “How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets“. [The youtube version of the speech is embedded at the bottom of this post]

The title of the speech is pretty much what the speech is all about, but at about 16 minutes into the talk, Mr. Sasselov uses two similes for introducing an incredibly powerful perspective: the significance of life-as-we-know-it on a universal scale relies in its duration.

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