But what if the medium is the message?

The first chunk of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's 21 fragments plunged into Jupiter's swirling gaseous soup at 37 miles per second, producing a fireball half as wide as Earth and spurting a plume of gunk 700 miles above the planet's top cloud layer, on July 16, 1994. A quarter century to the day before this 225,000 megaton blast, three men in glittery suits sat atop a 36-story tube filled with tons of flaming propellant and headed for the first walk on...

There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

The first chunk of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's 21 fragments plunged into Jupiter's swirling gaseous soup at 37 miles per second, producing a fireball half as wide as Earth and spurting a plume of gunk 700 miles above the planet's top cloud layer, on July 16, 1994. A quarter century to the day before this 225,000 megaton blast, three men in glittery suits sat atop a 36-story tube filled with tons of flaming propellant and headed for the first walk on...

“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

The first chunk of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's 21 fragments plunged into Jupiter's swirling gaseous soup at 37 miles per second, producing a fireball half as wide as Earth and spurting a plume of gunk 700 miles above the planet's top cloud layer, on July 16, 1994. A quarter century to the day before this 225,000 megaton blast, three men in glittery suits sat atop a 36-story tube filled with tons of flaming propellant and headed for the first walk on...

It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

The first chunk of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's 21 fragments plunged into Jupiter's swirling gaseous soup at 37 miles per second, producing a fireball half as wide as Earth and spurting a plume of gunk 700 miles above the planet's top cloud layer, on July 16, 1994. A quarter century to the day before this 225,000 megaton blast, three men in glittery suits sat atop a 36-story tube filled with tons of flaming propellant and headed for the first walk on...

Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

The first chunk of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's 21 fragments plunged into Jupiter's swirling gaseous soup at 37 miles per second, producing a fireball half as wide as Earth and spurting a plume of gunk 700 miles above the planet's top cloud layer, on July 16, 1994. A quarter century to the day before this 225,000 megaton blast, three men in glittery suits sat atop a 36-story tube filled with tons of flaming propellant and headed for the first walk on...