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I attended a holocaust memorial event some years ago at an Army base and it was one of the most intense experiences of my long life. It was not the testimony of the very aged survivor or solemn words by other speakers that changed me forever. It was simply the look on the faces ofContinue reading “White Planet”

https://newatlas.com/energy/light-catalyst-ammonia-rice/ This could solve the single biggest problem with decarbonizing civilization and averting climate catastrophe, which is how to transport energy in various conveyances. Ground vehicles, Aircraft, and Ships, all must carry their energy with them and simply burning ammonia creates nitrous oxide which is far worse than carbon dioxide. Separating the hydrogen and nitrogenContinue reading “Another Hopeful Development”

You can build a very large ship and accelerate it with Space Solar Power to some percentage of the speed of light out of the solar system. Store enough nuclear energy and reaction mass to slow it down once it reaches its destination. And that is how you get to another star in however manyContinue reading “Fermi Again”

“We are energy independent, we are food independent, we are in a good place”- but Christiane asks why all the corporations are axing people. As a capitalist, Galloway loves to trivialize what the news makes a big deal out of. “I am a believer the faster you fire people, the faster you can rehire them.”Continue reading “Space Karen”

I have always thought a way freeze people without damage would come first and then there would be a race to reverse aging while millions would be frozen and stored to keep them from dying. Maybe we will not have to freeze anyone.

Money has become the demon-god of this world. There is little doubt of this in the early 21st century. Neoliberalism has become the driving force in civilization and now threatens to burn it to the ground by way of Climate Change. What immediately comes to mind is the Fermi Paradox and the most likely solutionContinue reading “Left-Right-Mixed”

When considering the end of anything it is helpful to revisit the beginning. The very beginning of this thing we call democracy can be traced back to ancient Greece. Five hundred years before the time of Christ, an Athenian named Cleisthenes established a new form of government where authority over the state, and by extensionContinue reading “Is Democracy Ending?”

I commented on YouTube they should rewrite the lyrics, so this is my best try: “WILL OF THE PEOPLE” The will of the people, the will of the people, the will of the will of X 4 Let’s vote the orange into oblivion, The will of the people, the will of the people, the willContinue reading “WILL OF THE PEOPLE”

“It’s OK to be white….left on the internet to be found and taken down the rabbit hole with.” “The thing about any kind of conspiracy theory, or an idea, or any of these things is, they work, they go viral, when they play on something that feels true. Right? You don’t get conspiracy theories thatContinue reading “Meme War”

Heather Digby Parton The Republican base is highly motivated by the Big Lie and its ongoing hatred for what they perceive as the forces that are destroying American culture — immigrants, Black people, “cosmopolitan” city dwellers (often meaning Jewish people), feminists, liberals (aka “communists”), LGBTQ people and so on. The proliferation of crazy conspiracy theoriesContinue reading “Behind the GOP gaslighting over Pelosi attack: They know it won’t happen to them”