Micah Wood: Coxmic Wimpout
And,;:.>whne I hear the sounds of dice\ \dice clattering, dice clattering, like a click-clack, now I’ll thnk of :: the creation of our universe and Guth’s theory of the Inflationary Universe; Stewart Brand’s vision of seeing the ‘blue marble,’ a photograph of the whole earth before it existed; and +[what humanity learned from leaving our home planet<<overview effect/}), Boethius’s ill-fated dance with Fortuna; astragals; ##not just cosmology, but the popular New Age notion of cosmic consciousness (thanks to Richard Maurice Bucke,), too;;;;; the genre of space rock/.\as captured in the one-night-only-formed German band Cosmic Jokers; and, of course, the beloved 1970s board game::::Cosmic Wimpout.