“There’s A Strange Contradiction Revealed By The Naïveté And Kindness Demonstrated By Humanity

Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.

Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu [x]

A list of books I read this year that were absolutely amazing (´∀｀=)

Are you under the impression that the object of everyone else’s love actually exists?

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (via theliterarybug)

Jessica & Danielle Southern Spring wedding

我点燃了火，却控制不了它。

I started the fire, but I couldn’t control how it burnt.  

Scientists are working on those replicators.

The protein is created from water, electricity and carbon dioxide and the Finnish researcher believes “the price can be pushed to 1 euro per kg”. Creating food this way doesn’t require the right humidity and soil and doesn’t take up the vast acreage otherwise required for growing soy beans for example. 

Potentially all that is required is solar power - making it possible to feed people in deserts. Commercial use is hopefully 10 years away. 

Famine solved! No more starving! Our Star Trek future is here!

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A bridge too far: [submission]

. . . Lou Ji came over and put his hand on a small painting.

“Would you leave this one for me?”

Cheng Xin and AA moved the painting aside and set it on top of a box next to the wall. They were surprised to see that it was the Mona Lisa.

Cheng Xin and AA continued to work at disassembling frames. AA whispered, “Clever old man. He kept the most expensive piece for himself.”

“I don’t think that’s the reason.”

“Maybe he once loved a girl named Mona Lisa?”

Lou Ji sat next to the Mona Lisa and caressed the ancient frame with one hand. He muttered, “I didn’t know you were here. Otherwise I could have come to see you often.”

Cheng Xin saw that he wasn’t looking at the painting. His eyes stared ahead as if looking into the depths of time. Cheng Xin saw that his ancient eyes were filled with tears, and she wasn’t sure if he was mistaken.

Inside the grand tomb under the surface of Pluto, lit by the dim lamps that could shine for a hundred thousand years, Mona Lisa’s smile seemed to appear and disappear. The smile had puzzled humankind for nearly nine centuries, and it looked even more mysterious and eerie now, as though it meant everything and nothing, like the approaching Death.

Death’s End (p. 512), Cixin Liu