The Consciousness Trilogy: Reading Three Wagers on the Question We Cannot Settle
This page exists for readers who want a map of the consciousness sequence published on BolesBlogs in the spring of 2026. Three articles, taken together, cover the contemporary terrain on the deepest question philosophy still asks. Each can be read alone. Read in sequence, they form a coordinated treatment of the consciousness problem that points beyond any single solution toward what the…
U.S. rescues missing crew member in Iran after fighter jet shot down
“WE GOT HIM!" Donald Trump posted Sunday just after midnight,
announcing the safe return of the missing airman and those who risked their lives to save him.
The operation was high risk,
with U.S. C-130s and rescue helicopters flying low and slow over Iran’s mountainous terrain to locate the missing airman.
As the search was ongoing, Iranian television broadcast a statement offering a rew…
Eliminates part of my relutance to take a road trip up north…
I hate the idea of not involving K in everything we do, which ultimately means that we don’t do much. Travel is hard and anything leaving paved areas for more than a few feet is close to impossible. But this… we could do.
I deeply miss walking in the gentle wilds of NW Michigan. @…
I wanted to explore the topographic relief cartographic style that I did for Santorini, Greece, last year¹ and tried it on the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴.
One new thing is that I worked with @… terrain tiles instead of processing the raw NASADEM data.
Feedback and comments are requested! 🙏
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Idea: GPWS and rad alt voiced by vocaloids
Hatsune miku: "Five hundred... Four hundred... Three hundred"
Kasane teto: "Too low... Terrain! Pull up! Pull up!"
Here is the new #MoonBase NASA website: https://www.nasa.gov/moonbase/ - at the presser it was also announced that Blue Origin, AstroLab and LunarOutpost have been chosen to build and deliver Lunar Terrain Vehicles while Firefly will build the vehicle to carry the Moonfall probes: https://bsky.app/profile/genejm1017.bsky.social/post/3mmrmpih4yc22. Meanwhile three NASA-sponsored Moon landings are planned for the remainder of this year: https://nitter.net/NASA/status/2059338624651387312#m
NASA awarded Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin an initial $188 million contract
to get its robotic Blue Moon Mark 1 lander ready to deliver lunar terrain vehicles, or LTVs,
with an option period worth an additional $280.4 million for two task orders.
Carlos Garcia-Galan, program manager for NASA’s Moon Base program, said the LTVs will be
“a mix between the Apollo lunar roving vehicle and the Mars-style rover.”
Each rover will weigh a little less than one metric ton, …
I sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…
Marines, this ain’t a park in Los Angeles you’re trying to invade this time.
Iran is over half a million square miles (1.6 million square kilometers) and over 92 million Iranians, with mountains and terrain so fierce even the Romans avoided invading it, but 2,500 USMC soldiers (with planning by kegsbreath and the geriatric bone spur) are gonna move the needle. Right.
Building a graveyard isn’t good for anyone.
Trump says U.S. ground troops in Iran 'possible' - @…
#US #Iran
Human Traces V ⛩️
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From my hike last Sunday.
This moment, when you turn around and see the summit that you're heading to for the first time and think "hm - still quite a bit to go"
#hiking #mountains #wandern
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Here's a photo from a recent hike that I wrote about in my blog ( https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/a-spring-hike-with-unexpected-challenges-in-the-snow/ ).
Well - it's been a very cool day up there :) Nothing much to add that I h…
Some Places with Snow III ❄️
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