Man this is a great shot, excellent colors and nicely balanced composition. You could totally leave it as is, but if it were mine, I would crop away the entire bottom half, right where the water starts to get blurry, leaving the top half as an amazing panoramic.

Fair points but you and the other commenter are, in my opinion, thinking too near-term. On the scale of hundreds of thousands to millions of years, evolution starts to become a factor. The beings that leave earth to live elsewhere, on that time scale, may have been human once but would have evolved into something different, hopefully more suited to environments on other worlds. And we’re not even close to the destruction of earth by the sun, which is on the order of a billion years from now.

That’s more what I meant by inevitable. Our curiosity brought us to the stars early, but we have the time here on earth to invent, adapt, grow, and change before the hard stop of needing to leave earth…assuming we survive what earth throws at us (and what we do to it) in the nearer term.

Interesting, I’m of the opposite mind: I think it’s inevitable that we will inhabit places outside earth. Time is long, technology keeps getting better, space on earth keeps getting smaller, and there’s only one way we escape the consumption of earth by the eventual expansion of the sun. We just have to make sure not to destroy ourselves here first (a tall order, it seems as of lately).

Pleasantly surprised to see Paprika in someone’s list, no one i know has ever even heard of it. Such a good weird movie.

Agreed, this is good advice. At one time I had three of these, they’re great, small, versatile, well built. All around a great machine.

Last book: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Current book: Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Never Let Me Go was not my favorite book, but not a waste of time either. The story had some good highs and lows but it did not resonate with me personally.

Hyperion is excellent so far, I’m about halfway through and Simmons gives just enough information at the right time and pace to build the world out slowly and thoroughly, and each short story so far has left me contemplating for hours afterward. Definitely enjoying the journey so far but I have been warned not to expect definitive answers towards the end, so we’ll see.