am seeing LOST everywhere

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from this Esquire article...

First stop, the engine room, two big turbines and a screw painted the same green color as a high school boiler room. On to the rudder, with old-fashioned hydraulic arms that look like a giant bicycle wheel. To the combat information center where they plotted trajectories on what looks like a giant fuse box, to the navigation room where the dead-reckoning log still lies. Then he goes out onto the bridge, where he remembers the day he grabbed his binoculars and ran out to see the Iranian missiles coming to annihilate him. Why? "Because I wanted to see my fate," he says.

saw this photo essay and wondered what those numbers on the wall meant, what the wall map looks like under black light, and what the hatch to this place looked like.

and there was one more... accessing history... oh yeah! how could I forget. The story of the LHC, complete with time travel, a god particle, and a baguette.

[ericd543]

another LOST moment while noodling around the 'net, and one of the most interesting themes to me.. destiny vs. fate, randomness, choice, finding meaning in coincidence

Radiolab - Stochasticity

This hour, Radiolab examines Stochasticity, which is just a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness. How big a role does randomness play in our lives? Do we live in a world of magic and meaning or … is it all just chance and happenstance? To tackle this question, we look at the role chance and randomness play in sports, lottery tickets, and even the cells in our own body. Along the way, we talk to a woman suddenly consumed by a frenzied gambling addiction, two friends whose meeting seems purely providential, and some very noisy bacteria.

[ericd543]

this one is for Daniel Faraday...

YouTube video -- Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, S. James Gates, Jr., and Freeman Dyson discusses science, human knowledge and the unknown.