I've started reading Permutation City and even though I basically philosophically agree with all of its claims about consciousness/personhood so far, it's still a bit spooky sometimes.
Prompted by this: What's the spookiest scientific experiment you know of?
My candidates: single-particle double slit, Michelson-Morely experiment failing to demonstrate luminiferous aether.
@starkatt not an experiment, per se, but the report from NASA today that human VLF communication is actually pushing the Van Allen belts farther away.
@starkatt Source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasas-van-allen-probes-spot-man-made-barrier-shrouding-earth
Not just pushing the belts higher, but acting as a second layer of shielding against incoming high energy particle radiation.
Astroforming. (Cosmoforming?)
@memnus woah.