Geschichte verläuft nicht linear, sondern in Kreisen und Schleifen.

Achtung, Roboter!

Das Hauptargument zur Entwicklung von Robotern war die Nutzung der Kernenergie. Rund um die Brennstäbe gibt es allerhand zu tun, und Menschen kann man schlecht dorthin schicken.

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳! Johann-Daniel Major (1634–1693) See-Farth nach der Neuen Welt

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳!  „Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud.“  #AmericanReadalong  Herman Melville Moby-Dick CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch.

...that icy though conscientious policy, adopted by all commanders of large ships, which obliterates the manifestation of sway with every trace of sociality; transforming the man into a loaded cannon, which, until there is call for thunder, has nothing to say. Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

Some prominent breaches, not only of discipline but of decency, were observed. Benito Cereno Happy #MelvilleMonday , dear friends!

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳! CHOPIN'S HEART „… she raised her skirt and showed the other ladies her leg, immobilized by a leather sleeve with whalebone, held in place by the hoops that also held up her dress. ‚Here's what crinoline's good for’, said the singer […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

“And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?” #MelvilleMonday

"You will never get on in your business or anything else, if you don't take the bright view of life. It's the ruination of a man to take the dismal one." The Confidence Man. 40. Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

It happened in this case, as in others, that, though the world may for a time seem insensible to that merit which lies under a cloud, yet, sooner or later, it always renders honor where honor is due. The Confidence Man. 40. Happy #MelvilleMonday . dear friends!

https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/115666693791483564 It's a long way home if you follow the quote chain.

Unter Bulgaren 😬

In der Schwyz machet's ein Chrashtest...

The young girls very often danced by moonlight in front of their dwellings. There are a great variety of these dances, in which, however, I never saw the men take part. They all consist of active, romping, mischievous evolutions, in which every limb is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Lebe wild und geheimnisvoll!

Leiste auch du deinen Beitrag!

Hung in long, sepulchral arches of stone, the black, besmoked bridge seemed a huge scarf of crape, festooning the river across. Similar funeral festoons spanned it to the west, while eastward, towards the sea, tiers and tiers of jetty colliers lay moored […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Und wenn wir Gruppen pauschal von Behandlung ausschließen, weil es zu teuer ist sie weiterleben zu lassen, dann sind wir bei Eugenik u Sozialdarwinismus. Dann reißt die Decke der Zivilisation. So darf ein Gesundheitssystem in e Demokratie nie funktionieren. Es widerspricht dem hippokratischen Eid.

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳! „Kritik der Tiere. — Ich fürchte, die Tiere betrachten den Menschen als ein Wesen ihresgleichen, das in höchst gefährlicher Weise den gesunden Tierverstand verloren hat, — als das wahnwitzige Tier, als das lachende Tier, als das weinende Tier, als das unglückselige Tier […]

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! … „this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.“ Herman Melville Moby-Dick CHAPTER 85 #AmericanReadalong Illustration: Gilbert Wilson

The book on which I had so much relied; the book in the old morocco cover; the book with the cocked-hat corners; the book full of fine old family associations; the book with seventeen plates, executed in the highest style of art; this precious book was next […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I could not but think that I was building myself up in an unerring knowledge of Liverpool; especially as I had familiarized myself with the map, and could turn sharp corners on it, with marvelous confidence and celerity. Redburn. His First Voyage/Chapter XXXI Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

Geld einsacken muss sich wieder lohnen!

Weiß Gott nee, endlich sagts doch mal einer.

In Österreich wird, ähnlich wie in Deutschland, die angemessene Versorgung von an ME/CFS und Post-Covid Erkrankten systematisch verhindert und verschleppt. #mecfs #longcovid

Auf geht's nach #Darmstadt zur Vorstellung, u.a. des historischen Katasters aus der #Jugendstil Ära. Weit über 1000 Einzelblätter bilden ein Mosaik der Residenzhauptsstadt vor über 100 Jahren. Perfekt vermessen und gezeichnet in den kleinsten baulichen Details […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! „Think, think of thy whale-boat, stoven and sunk! Beware of the horrible tail!”   Herman Melville Moby-Dick CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. #americanreadalong

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! „That's he! that's he!—the long-togged scaramouch the Town-Ho's company told us of!“ Herman Melville Moby-Dick CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. #AmericanReadalong Scaramouch a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward

Though I always say, I and My Chimney, as Cardinal Wolsey used to say, "I and My King," yet this egotistic way of speaking, wherein I take precedence of my chimney, is hardly borne out by the facts; in everything, except the above phrase, my chimney taking precedence of me. Happy #MelvilleMonday!

My chimney is grand seignior here—the one great domineering object, not more of the landscape, than of the house; all the rest of which house, in each architectural arrangement, as may shortly appear, is, in the most marked manner, accommodated, not to my […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Every now and then the Earth's magnetic field completely switches poles, and all the polar bears and penguins have to change ends too.

Wir sind einfach verloren.

So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two: that my free will had received a mortal […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Fester, Genossen, fester!

Der dritte Mann.

Ich habe viele Fragen.

Bald ist es soweit!

Nicht jeder weiß das.🍷

Moby Dick. LXXVII. Happy #MelvilleMonday , dear friends! 2/

Electricity prices rise by a small factor to reduce CO2 emissions and maintain what keeps us alive – the End Of The World is here! Electricity prices rise by 267% because of error-prone technology that only a small fraction of US companies actually find useful – innovation, the future! […]

I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-colored membrane, like the lining of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳  Moby-Dick Chapter 43. Hark! „There again—there it is!—it sounds like two or three sleepers turning over, now!"  #AmericanReadalong Gevorg Bashinjaghian Meerlandschaft mit Schiff im Mondlicht Sotheby‘s

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳 „Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.“ Herman Melville Moby-Dick CHAPTER 50 AHAB'S BOAT AND CREW • FEDALLAH #AmericanReadalong Fedallah Claus Hoie, 1911-2007 NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

“Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale…” #MelvilleMonday

The moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff. Moby Dick. CV. Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

In Mardi, Melville had shifted his interest from the actual to the abstruse and symbolical, and he never recovered from the dive into metaphysics which proved fatal to him as a novelist. It was while on this perilous border that he produced the best of his […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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