May 23, 2016

RhoDeo 1621 Foundation 5

Hello,  well even Barcelona had a hard time winning  the Spanish Cup they needed extrattime to defeat cupfighters pur sang Sevilla. They played with 10 men 85 of the 120 minutes but worse was the loss of the la Liga's topscorer, Luis Suarez to serious injury...but then it was the last game of the season..Over at the Giro D'Italia Nibali payed the price for hunt of the competition yesterday, he manged to keep it within limits 37 seconds , but today in the 15km climb timetrail he lost more than 2 minutes to his main rival in the pink yersey Kruiswijk, closet rival now is Esteban Chaves...more big mountains yet to come.....


Rumor has it that HBO is working on the next big thing, a scifi series taking place far in the far future, Foundation. They will need to introduce a lot more female characters to make it appealing to the female audience, not a thing a fifties sci fi writer worried much about. If they manage to pull it of, there's potential for many seasons and spin offs

The Foundation series is a science fiction series by Isaac Asimov. For nearly thirty years, the series was a trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation. It won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. Asimov began adding to the series in 1981, with two sequels: Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth, and two prequels: Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation. .

The premise of the series is that the mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept of mathematical sociology. Using the laws of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting 30,000 years before a second great empire arises. Seldon also foresees an alternative where the interregnum will last only one thousand years. To ensure the more favorable outcome, Seldon creates a foundation of talented artisans and engineers at the extreme end of the galaxy, to preserve and expand on humanity's collective knowledge, and thus become the foundation for a new galactic empire ....N'Joy

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Psychohistory is a fictional science that combines history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people, such as the Galactic Empire. It was first introduced in the three short stories (1942–1944) which would later be collected as the 1951 novel Foundation.

Psychohistory depends on the idea that, while one cannot foresee the actions of a particular individual, the laws of statistics as applied to large groups of people could predict the general flow of future events. Asimov used the analogy of a gas: an observer has great difficulty in predicting the motion of a single molecule in a gas, but can predict the mass action of the gas to a high level of accuracy. (Physicists know this as the Kinetic theory). Asimov applied this concept to the population of his fictional Galactic Empire, which numbered a quintillion. The character responsible for the science's creation, Hari Seldon, established two axioms:

that the population whose behaviour was modeled should be sufficiently large
that the population should remain in ignorance of the results of the application of psychohistorical analyses

There is a third underlying axiom of Psychohistory, which is trivial and thus not stated by Seldon in his Plan:
that Human Beings are the only sentient intelligence in the Galaxy.

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Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy was adapted for the BBC in eight hour-long episodes by Patrick Tull (episodes 1 to 4) and Mike Stott (episodes 5 to 8), directed by David Cain, first broadcast in 1973, and repeated in 1977 and 2002.

A further hundred years have passed, and the Foundation is challenged by an unexpected threat named The Mule.

Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy 5 The Mule (mp3  52mb)

The Foundation Trilogy 5 The Mule... 56:34

The Foundation has grown to become the most influential force in the galaxy, but it has now to deal with internal dissent. The conflict to be resolved is plain to see - then the impossible happens. ...

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previously

Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy 1 (mp3  52mb)
Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy 2 The Mayors (mp3  49mb)
Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy 3 The Merchant Princes (mp3  53mb)
Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy 4 The General (mp3  50mb)

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