star trek and baseball
by Greg on Apr.20, 2009, under Science Life
One of my favorite moments in the star trek universe, when deep space nine shows how baseball describes the entirety of human existence. It’s a long argument over two clips, but to understand it, pay attention to the black actor, Captain Sisko, as he describes to an alien race what it means to be corporal beings. This is also related to my prior post, NY Times: the sabermetric edge in baseball.
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Games have always been used to describe our physical world. Read about the meso-american ball game that combined culture, ritual, space and time.
:baseball, deep space nine, linear existence, star trek
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