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Escape to Mars after we’ve trashed the Earth?
Escape to Mars after we’ve trashed the Earth? The idea that we can go to Mars is touted by NASA, Elon Musk, and so many others that this dream seems just around the corner. If we destroy our planet with climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, aquifer depletion and more, no problem! We can […]
‘The Expanse’ is a story about systemic ruin
‘The Expanse’ is a story about systemic ruin “The Expanse” is a popular science fiction television series (based on a book series of the same name) that at first seems to follow a predictable storyline: essentially the Cold War revisited, only in this case with warlike Mars (previously settled by people from Earth) pitted against […]
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back Charles Sprague Pearce The Arab jeweler c1882 There are a lot of industries in our world that wreak outsized amounts of havoc. Think the biggest global banks and oil companies. Think plastics. But there is one field that is much worse than all others: agro-chemicals. At some point, […]
Yet Another Year of Magical Thinking
Yet Another Year of Magical Thinking A peculiar feature of the human condition is that a society in distress will call forth intellectual witch-doctors to put on a colorful show that distracts the supposedly thinking class from the insoluble quandaries that portend serious trouble ahead. This feature is on display these days in the person […]
Is America a Police State?
Is America a Police State? The current state of the United States’ criminal justice system, if it can even be called that anymore, is truly appalling. Recently, in a small town in Pennsylvania, an insurance agent for Nationwide Insurance noticed a certain plant growing in a garden on the property he was inspecting. This insurance […]
Stephen Hawking: 100 Years Left for Humans to Escape Earth
Stephen Hawking: 100 Years Left for Humans to Escape Earth (ANTIMEDIA) World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has been discussing the impending doom of the human race for several years. On multiple occasions, he has warned of the likelihood that alien species will act like colonialists if they ever visit Earth, likening extraterrestrials’ tendencies to our own […]
Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity
Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity Caters Extremely rare albino elephant, Kruger National Park in South AfricaEverything dies, baby, that’s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back … Springsteen, Atlantic City “Erwin Schrodinger (1945) has described life as a system in steady-state thermodynamic disequilibrium that maintains its constant distance from equilibrium (death) by feeding […]
Questions and Answers
Questions and Answers The really big item in last night’s 60-Minutes newsbreak was that the latest Star Wars movie passed the billion dollar profit gate a week after release. That says just about everything you need to know about our floundering society, including the state of the legacy news media. The cherry on top last week was Elon Musk’s […]
He’s told us not to blow it
He’s told us not to blow it Hopefully you’ve seen the recent movie, The Martian, a film directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from the online book by Andy Weir. If you have not seen the movie or read the book, both of which I highly recommend, there will be some spoilers for the movie in this […]
