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Evolutions 1.1 – Hadean

Oscar van Dillen Posted on September 7, 2025 by oscarSeptember 7, 2025

The story this album embarks on is the greatest story ever told, and it was told for millennia, more times than the number of cultures and religions, but always in parables. Some examples of such storytelling are given below: “At the beginning, there was a huge drop of milk. …
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Dronescape 6.5: Oneirology 6

Oscar van Dillen Posted on March 29, 2025 by oscarMarch 29, 2025

Similar to the earlier Dronescape releases, this work can be considered to be an Electronic or DigitalSymphony. This three-part collaborative work is called Oneirology 6. Dronescape 6.5 is the sixth in a subseries, a shared dreaming space in which Schouten’s ideas are presented developing alongside van Dillen’s original Oneirology …
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Elements 16: Sulphur

Oscar van Dillen Posted on June 29, 2024 by oscarJune 29, 2024

It was discovered in 1979 that deep in the oceans there exist hydrothermal vents, teeming with life, using a biology based on energy extraction using Sulphur, sometimes anaerobic and always independent of sunlight. It has been scientifically proposed that life originated at such places. As all these vents occur at submarine continental plate boundaries, it can be grasped how life is created and sustained by the planet as a whole. The hydrothermal vents are not just underwater islands, but influence life on a planetary scale, as next to S, these emit elements such as Fe, Mn, Cr, Cu, Zn, Co, Ni, Mo, Cd, V and W, many of which have biological functions.


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