May 12, 2011

Is this right?

Self, room, house, neighborhood, city, county, state, region, country, continent, hemisphere, planet, solar system, galaxy, local group, super cluster, observable universe, universe.

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  1. Deron Bauman on May 12th, 2011 at 11:27 am

    This got started on Twitter. Thanks Amy, Raynor, Patrick, Lex, Mike.

  2. Michael Smith on May 12th, 2011 at 11:41 am

    postal code?

  3. Deron Bauman on May 12th, 2011 at 11:52 am

    Yeah, though where in there can be tricky. Also, I thought of clothes after self, and whatever, after universe.

  4. Sheila Ryan on May 12th, 2011 at 11:53 am

    Cell, self . . . ? Et cetera?

  5. Deron Bauman on May 12th, 2011 at 11:59 am

    Yeah, taking it the other direction, extending it back — organs, cells, dna, atoms.

  6. Sheila Ryan on May 12th, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    Fantastic Voyage.

  7. Sheila Ryan on May 12th, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    I confess. I like the idea that I am a kind of colony comprised of human cells and bacteria and fungi and viruses and I-don’t-know-what-else.

    It makes me feel important.

  8. Sheila Ryan on May 12th, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    And cosmopolitan.

  9. Deron Bauman on May 12th, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    My favorite idea lately has to do with all the autonomous systems we have running in the background below the awareness of our conscious selves.

  10. Deron Bauman on May 12th, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    The hum of the factory, as it were.

  11. Sheila Ryan on May 12th, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    I like that.

    I would, though.

  12. Ash on May 12th, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    Where’s the time domain?

  13. Dave Vogt on May 12th, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    What is and was and will be is only a subset of what is and was and will be possible. I mean this in a technical way for which my language is probably insufficiently precise, but the way I said it feels better in the context.

  14. Quin on May 12th, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    I thought they were all the same thing?

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