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19
Feb

Your Own Personal Time Machine

   Posted by: BJ Johnson » Tags: , , ,

Keeping with the Time Travel theme, here's a really cool philosophical exercise that I have often posed to colleagues and friends over the years. It tells you a lot about yourself; especially, like any good broth, after you have let it simmer for a while:

Time (and obviously money) being no object, list the 10 people that you would most like to be able to spend a day Enjoy The Full Story...

18
Feb

Sometimes, Foresight Is 20/20

   Posted by: BJ Johnson » Tags: , , , , ,

In keeping with the Time Machine thread from the previous post, the philosophical question for you today is:

If you could travel back in time 10 years and sit down with yourself for 5 minutes, what would you say?

I know what I'd say. I would remind myself of a conversation I had 14 years prior with a friend in his Los Angeles living room one afternoon during one of my Shuttle Mission assignments for NASA Headquarters,

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30
Dec

The Technology of Fire

   Posted by: BJ Johnson » Tags: , , ,

Observations on all that humans have been able to accomplish with one of the most basic technologies. Even a Cave Man can... well, you get the idea.

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