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The Long View 2007-02-22: Dry Jovians; Goracle; Endless Things

I too would like to find some way to colonize space, but damned if I know how to make it economically possible. Tech billionaires are making it possible to reach space more cheaply, but it still isn’t clear what people could do in orbit or on other astronomical bodies

Linkfest 2017-06-03

Speaking from experience: a note on mysticism and religion Niall Gooch's attempt to expand on a distinction between a mystical experience and a religious one. Three Polish Poems BD Sixsmith agrees with Niall in poetic form. Working memory training in healthy young adults: Support for the null from

The Long View 2004-01-15: Stellar Conservatism

In an interesting libertarian-ish interpretation of James C. Bennett's article in the National Interest, John says this: Bennett is not wholly averse to technological determinism. He argues that networking technology undermines the sort of states, even the democratic ones, that engage in extensive economic redistribution. This is because

The Long View 2003-08-28: Buckets of Bile

Sadly, I find that I missed a couple of images John included in this post when I used wget to download his entire website. The Internet Archive also lacks them, so I think they are lost forever. Darn, I think they would have been doozies. As for the purpose of

The Long View 2003-04-22: Pandemics

This bit about SARS is interesting twelve years later. Influenza is interesting. The official mortality rate went up compared to what John had here, from 5.6% to 9.6% according to the WHO. Unfortunately, better record-keeping doesn't always equal better stats. This number is likely to be

The Long View 2003-02-05: Powell at the UN; Columbia; Impossibilities

In a followup to Sunday's repost of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, here is a newsgroup post detailing why you couldn't have possibly matched the orbit of the shuttle to the ISS, among other things. John wasn't a physicist or an aerospace engineer, so

The Long View 2003-02-03: The Columbia Disaster

It isn't hard to be critical of NASA for the Columbia disaster, no one is going to make a movie about how well the space agency handled the situation. However, the bit about spending lots of money to design a pen that worked in space is half-true. We