The Sun: Damming Its Power: Quote: "Let’s imagine that a single bacterium, placed on the medium of culture at midday, will have reproduced enough to fill the dish by midnight. During that time the number of bacteria will have multiplied by 68bn. So when was the dish just half full? At 11.40pm. If we were one of those bacteria, when would we have realised that we were running out of space? At 10pm, when the colony occupied only 1.5% of the dish’s volume, we would have had no inkling of the disaster ahead. Suppose that at 11.20pm an alert bacterium got worried. Mobilising all resources, it launched a search for space in which to expand. At 11.40pm three new dishes were discovered, quadrupling the available space. But that apparently substantial increase in resources gave a breathing space of only 40 minutes: at 12.40am disaster struck the colony." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
