Childhood's End

The Star Beast

Tu, Vos

Interlingua is like French, Spanish, Portuguese, and the like because there are the familiar-formal, young-old, and singular-plural distinctions embedded in its "tu versus vos" pronoun dichotomy for the English counterparts of you.  Interlingua preserves the naturalness from Latino languages.

Triple Détente

Niven's Ringworld

Like Medicine

An Asian stranger has hinted that Esperanto words are like good medicine.

My English from Star Trek

I suppose I have learnt a lot of good English from all the Star Trek shows.  There are a lot of good samples there.

Artist's View of Terraformed Mars

Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy

Le cycle de fondation

My English

Foreigners think my English looks British.  It isn't really.  I've my own style.  I learnt American English in grade school in the Philippines, but later in Canada, I learnt Canadian English.  I've read many sci-fi and fantasy books, written by British authors, so those journeys affect my writing style.  Also, I've read many Esperanto, Spanish, and French books, as well as Japanese, so there are influences from those luxurious languages.

Big Wars and Little

Whilst there are now ongoing "little wars" around the world, there seems to be minimal chance of a "big war."  With international highspeed communications, the 2010's aren't like the 1940's.

World Population

Within this century, some estimates are that the world population will plateau, then start to dip, later.  The more industrialization and higher education spread, the less children people want to have.

Language a Drug

Languages are like drugs.  Some are bad and some are good.  I won't tell you which is which.

K-P-C-O-F-G-S

"Acronym used to remember the taxonomic groupings of individual organisms in biology."

Keep = Kingdom 
Pond = Phylum 
Clean = Class 
Or = Order 
Froggy = Family 
Gets = Genus 
Sick = species

Long Life Study

Studying Japanese makes my life seem longer.  Esperanto has a similar effect on me.

MOM and MAVEN

India's space agency ISRO has their Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) aka Mangalyaan now in orbit around Mars, as it takes pictures.  This spacecraft is contemporaneous with American NASA's MAVEN, also now orbiting Mars.

Non-youth

Strangers have been expressing their non-youth for several years now.  What should people do about it?

Non-brown English Culture

People forget I'm living in an English country.  It's not brown, here.

Propagandists and Life

The propagandists should take account of their own actions.  They're promoting the ideas of poverty and misery.  They don't have the French joie de vivre.  They don't have the Greek kefi.  When will they learn?

Anti-Woman

The propagandists are still anti-woman.  They think women are not better than men.

Future Vision

Many people just don't look to the future, perhaps because they think it'll be merely dismal.

Space Not Just Financial

Setting human feet on Mars isn't just a financial problem; it's significantly a technical problem.

Chinese Lunar Exploration Program

The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program is a series of projects to explore the moon.  It's ongoing.  Like Russians, Chinese want to see their people on the moon.  Luna is the priority.  Americans look to Mars.

Kanji

After your university years, learning more Kanji becomes like a trap because there are just too many of them, and you should have learned them in childhood.  A Kanji dictionary is like a junkyard, as there are many fun vintage things in it, nevertheless.

Capitalism

If people stick with Capitalism, we'll have to tolerate the rollercoaster ride that goes with the central casinos.

JUICE

Europe's space agency ESA is investing hundreds of millions of euros on JUICE, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.

Luna and Mars

The Russian space agency Roscosmos wants to see their people in habitats on the moon.  Good news!  American NASA turns to Mars, which the Japanese have codenamed Planet-B.

Poor Earth

The Earth is just a poor planet.

Global Slowdown

The Asian Slowdown looks like it's turning into a Global Slowdown.  Rich countries are running out of money for outer space.

Unnumbered Wealth

Western wealth indices may not truly reflect wealth in non-Western countries, as some features of lifestyle cannot be measured numerically, especially in a Western way.

Bubble Economies

When Japan's Bubble burst a few decades ago, Japan was already a mature, developed society, but lately, when China's Bubble has burst, China is still an immature, developing society.  There's a difference.  Some overseas Chinese expect many mainlanders will want to leave the homeland.

Nineists and Elevenists

Nineists promote the longevity of constructivism, whilst Elevenists revel in destructivism.

Zeroists and Tenists

The Zeroists cherish the wordless Void of Everything, whilst the Tenists have laws and rules to guide their life.

Oneists and Twoists

Oneists believe in the solitude and unity of their deity, whilst Twoists believe in Nature's dualities of light-dark, male-female, et cetera.

Sixists and Eightists

Sixists ponder about the paradox of learning and ignorance, and they believe the microcosm reflects the macrocosm, whilst Eightists rejoice in the art and architecture of their ornate places of worship.

Threeists and Sevenists

Threeists are theocentric, believing in a god or gods, whilst Sevenists believe in Nature's many spirits.

Ancientness

We do not feel much history here in Lulu Island, as Western Canada isn't as old as Eastern Canada.  However, if we look at the Amerindian heritage, then we sense real ancientness.

Fourists and Fiveists

The Fourists think the universe is an illusion, a phantasm, whilst the Fiveists think the universe has real substantiality.