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Why Do You Play?

August 12th, 2017 | Posted by pftq in Thought of the Day | #
'Oh you're off to play tennis. Are you a professional? A coach? Student? No? Then why do you play?' Um... for fun?
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4D Quantum Superposition

August 11th, 2017 | Posted by pftq in Thought of the Day | #
Time travel is quantum superposition in 4D by existing across multiple points in time instead of space. And as soon as you witness one, the others disappear.
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Perpetual

August 9th, 2017 | Posted by pftq in Thought of the Day | #
Everything is perpetually falling - the moon, the stars, planets...  And perpetually dying.
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Pixelation

August 1st, 2017 | Posted by pftq in Thought of the Day | #
The simulated world gets ever more clear while the real world becomes a blur.
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Different Night Skies

June 1st, 2017 | Posted by pftq in Thought of the Day | #
That feeling of knowing we see the same night sky, the same stars and constellations, no matter how far apart we are, will one day be replaced by the feeling of realizing we might not even see the same moon.
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Sound is to Memories

May 2nd, 2017 | Posted by pftq in Thought of the Day | #
Pictures is to genes as sound is to memories.
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Death is Only Natural

April 6th, 2017 | Posted by pftq in Thought of the Day | #
Death is only natural... That is, until you find a cure. Then they'll kill you to have it.
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Colonization

March 29th, 2017 | Posted by pftq in Thought of the Day | #
The strange feeling knowing there's a shrinking window, a last chance, before there comes a day when you can't even go to Mars to be alone anymore and truly away from society.
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Cutting Through a City Grid

March 26th, 2017 | Posted by pftq in Thought of the Day | #
Cutting thru a city grid is the same distance as going around the perimeter. There is no time saved if you never actually travel diagonally.  Just something that irks me when people opt to zigzag through for a "shortcut" rather than walk the "long way" along the perimeter.
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