What happened that brought about this sense that mind and
cosmos are alien to one another?
Not exact matches
That
is: the mind caught in an
alien body; the not - quite - genius nerd who
's «the king of foreplay» or will do anything to «get laid» and, really, anything to have a relational life with a pretty girl; the highly erotic metrosexual who turns the whole
cosmos into a romantic tale that has room for appreciating «The Good Wife»; the guy who
is better than he says (but still genuinely short on manliness), but who
is creepy in his ingenuity when it comes to using his robotic gadgets for personal satisfaction.
Gnosticism
is here understood as that movement of the later Hellenistic world which sought salvation from the whole
cosmos regarded as, in principle, an
alien and evil power.
It
is the result of nothing but an invincible blindness from which we suffer, an insensibility to the inner significance of
alien lives, and a conceit that would project our own incapacity into the vast
cosmos, and measure the wants of the Absolute by our own puny needs.
As humans have learned about the size of the
cosmos (and our not - so - central place in it), we have grappled with weighing our specialness against the possible existence of
alien beings on other worlds.
Not only will Project Blue look for Earth - like planets right in our backyard, it will
be the proving ground for future missions like the ASTRO - 1 space observatory, a privately - funded UV - Visible space telescope mission that will provide unprecedented views of the
cosmos and
alien worlds.
Stargate, which
was produced by Devlin and directed by Roland Emmerich,
was based on the idea of an
alien Einstein — Rosen bridge device that enables nearly instantaneous travel across the
cosmos.
Love - hating
alien bugs
are spreading their brand of hate across the once utopian universe, and it
's up to you to track down the adorable space bunnies spread across the
cosmos in order to restore space and time to its previously amorous state.
Bizarre
alien creatures wander in the distance and soar through the sky, and the world's
cosmos and landscape have a dreamy surrealism that
is unlike anything else.
Another Dimension brings together artists that
are inspired by the most distant corners of our
cosmos and cherish a love for the fictional, invisible and
alien.
The intelligent thing to do would
be invest in new infrastructure that also addresses climate concerns, but then, it probably ought to tell us something that
alien civilizations have given our planet wide berth in their search for intelligent life in the
cosmos.
The most dismal end of the world scenario that did not involve
aliens or big rocks from the
cosmos was the third book in the Gaea trilogy by John Varley, «Demon».