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The Long View 2006-07-08: Propulsion; Cars; U2; PATH Flood

A lot of popular science fiction relies on some version of faster-than-light travel. It isn't impossible to tell a good story that doesn't include it, but it is definitely harder. Unfortunately, at this point it looks like all such stories are in much the same place

The Long View 2006-07-06: The Deer in the Headlights

This was a pretty funny bit. I have been on camera a couple of times myself, and I also find it very different than performing on stage. The Deer in the Headlights My fellow spelling reformers' tactic of picketing the National Spelling Bee every year has never greatly engaged

The Long View 2006-07-05: Format; The Fall of New Jersey; Anti-Southern Strategy; Democrat Immigration Liability

I've lost a few of John's blog posts from the middle of June through July 2006. It looks like he was trying a hosted blog service that he didn't like, and I can't access saved copies of the main blog URL from

The Long View 2006-06-14: Inconstant Constants; Snowball Earth; Ireland & Denmark & Bush

The snowball earth hypothesis is an interesting one. It makes some intuitive sense to me as a meta-stable point in a dynamic system, but the devil is in the details here. Inconstant Constants; Snowball Earth; Ireland & Denmark & Bush The universe rests on shaky foundations, if we may believe

Supporting the Long View re-posting project, with some book reviews thrown in for fun

I've been at this for just over 4 years now. Traffic is growing strongly, and I occasionally run into a comment somewhere else along the lines of: "isn't there some guy reposting all of John Reilly's stuff?" I find that gratifying, and

The Long View 2006-06-12: Annoying Meteors; Mad Cows in America; Reprimitivization; Haditha; All the Past Before Us

Prion diseases like BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) aren't as well understood as some other infections, in part because their causes are hard to study. As it turned out, it was CJD (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) that killed John J. Reilly. Annoying Meteors; Mad Cows in America; Reprimitivization; Haditha; All

The Long View 2006-06-06: Panspermia; China; 666; Terrorism

Panspermia is the kind of idea that seems to appeal to Aspergery scientists and science fiction writers, and pretty much no one else. Panspermia; China; 666; Terrorism There are no good explanations for the origin of life. There are two bad explanations, however: Intelligent Design and panspermia. If you believe