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daibhidc1) Evolutionary biologists don't really know if there's an evolutionary advantage to a sense of humour. Or at least they don't know what to say when someone plays clips of The Comic Strip Presents... and says "So, evolutionarily speaking, what's going on when we laugh at that?"
2) Olber's Paradox, proposed in the early 19th century, is that if the universe is infinite, the light from all the stars should illuminate the night sky. The explanation; that light takes time to travel, and hasn't had time to reach us yet, can also be used to support the Big Bang theory (because if the universe has been in a steady state forever, the light would have had time to reach us).
3) Never plan to spend an entire afternoon at the National Library of Scotland's exhibition hall, because it's tiny. (Especially since the science fiction exhibition I went to was actually in the foyer of the exhibition hall, and comprised two cases of books and a framed print of Starblazer covers.)
4) According to top sf writer Ken MacLeod and a sociologist, humanity is doomed and has been since the 80s. So that was a nice, cheery note to end on.
2) Olber's Paradox, proposed in the early 19th century, is that if the universe is infinite, the light from all the stars should illuminate the night sky. The explanation; that light takes time to travel, and hasn't had time to reach us yet, can also be used to support the Big Bang theory (because if the universe has been in a steady state forever, the light would have had time to reach us).
3) Never plan to spend an entire afternoon at the National Library of Scotland's exhibition hall, because it's tiny. (Especially since the science fiction exhibition I went to was actually in the foyer of the exhibition hall, and comprised two cases of books and a framed print of Starblazer covers.)
4) According to top sf writer Ken MacLeod and a sociologist, humanity is doomed and has been since the 80s. So that was a nice, cheery note to end on.
