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Author (The Postman, Earth, Existence,The Transparent Society). Interested in technology & our changing world.
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If the moon were only 1 pixel: a ginormously accurate scale model of the solar system!!
http://t.co/feqQ0k1B6d
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Good, now step one. Un-redact Bill "Boris" Barr's redactions of the Mueller report. Along with flags showing WHAT Barr redacted. Go back to just the source-protection redactions made by intel professionals.
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Hannah Arendt in "The Origins of Totalitarianism": โTotalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.โ
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My bro and colleague and visionary Greg Bear is having complications from heart surgery. He is a very good man. Please keep him in your thoughts.
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Space is hard. So let's all offer a "hang-in there" encouragement to the folks at
#SpaceX
http://t.co/RBkbMOu5Vi
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A bit that says it all, from a top Republican factotum: "Science is a Democrat thing."
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In another galaxy, a red super-giant (like Betelgeuse) was acting suspiciously and young researchers decided to keep an eye on it for 100+ days, andโฆ paydirt! A Type II supernova! 1st time humanity collected data before the big event. Oh, the physics!
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If God wanted Donald Trump to be president - why did he need so much help from the Russians?
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With sadness and deep appreciation I must report the passing of Vernor Vinge, a titan in the literature that explores a limitless range of potential destinies, Vernor gave millions vivid tales of plausible tomorrows. My tribute to him can be found here:
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Artificial intelligence better than doctors at identifying risks that predict heart attacks
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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics. -Erma Bombeck, author (1927-1996)
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A Japanese spacecraft is just hours away from a historic attempt to land two tiny, hopping robots on the big asteroid Ryugu, and you can see near real-time photos of the spaceflight action. This video is truly wonderful.
You Can See Photos from Japanese Asteroid Probe's 1st Rover Landing Attempt Right Now!
www.space.com
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Ukrainian soldiers re-enact a famous painting depicting Dnieper Cossacks penning impudent response to threats by the Ottoman Sultan. One version by Rapin's - removed for safety from Kharkiv Museum months ago, may be back on display there, now.
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California Congressman Ted Lieu working hard to hold Trump accountable. Follow him at
@tedlieu
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If Nate Silver was our Hari Seldon, then Donald Trump is the Mule. Some of you get it.
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Unbelievable beauty from NASA's Juno spacecraft... as if painted by Van God
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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. โ Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov said similar things a couple of decades earlier.
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Even Fox admits it's huge news, The last thing they'll ever do is admit that the Pelosi Bill that was designed to achieve exactly this result... worked.
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Abraham Lincoln, speaking in 1858โฆ
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Sixty years -since I was 12- I've heard the same lame yammers. Across those 6 decades I've explored concepts of the 'alien' via SETI, astrophysics &TONS of SF.) UFO-jibbers have always been the dumbest, illogical BORES. ZZZ.
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The great sci fi author - my bro Greg Bear is having complications from heart surgery. Please keep him in your thoughts: he is a very good man.
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Would any 20th Century sci fi author - even on LSD - have foreseen the bootlicking devotion of today's right wing to Moscow?
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I had no idea that muon (cosmic ray generated) tomography for imaging inside stone had advanced this far, since we funded a study using it for asteroid interiors - at NASA's Innovative & Advanced Concepts program - (NIAC).
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@Stonekettle
A non-partisan justification for court packing? We used to have nine federal districts and nine supreme court justices--one assigned to each. Now we have thirteen districts. So thirteen justices.
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We just watched the Japanese film version (on Netflix) of Robert Heinlein's great classic "The Door Into Summer." Except for a few embellishments which (mostly) improved the story a bit, it is terrifically faithful and well done. Way-fun! (sub-titles)
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MIT scientists develop porous graphene-based material 10X stronger than steel, but only 5% as dense
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By far a better man... and deeply under-rated as a president. It is proof of utter hypocrisy that those most loudly supporting Trump - the most opposite-to-Jesus living human - sneer at this fellow who taught Baptist sunday school for 80 years.
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Nearly 60% decline in sperm counts in western world since the 70s
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Can you be sued by a door demanding micropayments? A prescient scene from Philip K. Dickโs 1969 novel, Ubik:
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I keep in touch with my pal and 'killer bvee' colleague Vernor Vinge, and convey his new years greeting to you all. One of the great treasures of our field! We met for lunch (with Prof. John Carroll) a month or so ago and speak by phone often.
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@Stonekettle
GFWill is desperate to calibrate himself as a neutral arbiter who was never-Trump. I do not forgive 40 years spent offering polysyllabic incantations to excuse a US conservatism spiraling into insanity & treason. Too late fellah.
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I'm pleased to announce the return of SUNDIVER! My first novel, published 38 years ago, but out of print for a few years. I've revised, tidied errors and added a new intro about the scientific & personal journey to this book and the Uplift Universe:
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In Orwellian societies, the Telescreen only looks in one direction, never at
#BigBrother
. Every tyrant seeks, above all, to be safe from the accountability that comes with light.
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Wow, a breathtaking composite image from NASA's New Horizons probe.
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An inspiring tale about the first Asian-American woman naval officer who taught air combat during WWII.
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โLiterally false and metaphorically trueโ The evolution of
#religion
and belief systems, by
@BretWeinstein
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Surviving the onslaught of Tropical Storm Hilary
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Remember, your adversary is never more than 90% wrong. And you are never more than 90% right. Thereโs always something to learn.
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Has anyone noticed the similarities in the story arc of Bakhmut and a place called Stalingrad, 81 years ago? Unfolding events bear remarkable similarity. That may end tomorrow. But I would not mind if Prigozhin's nickname became "Paulus."
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. โHaruki Murakami
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Heinleinโs writings seem remarkably relevant todayโฆ
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Too big to fail? How 37 banks become 4 mega-banks in the last two decades
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Magnificence! NASA releases new images of Jupiterโs turbulent clouds from Junoโs flyby
#Junocam
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I've explored concepts of 'alien' in astronomy, SETI, NASA &scifi) more than anyone on Earth. I depict many kinds of 'contact,' including most likely in the asteroid belt. Show me something - anything - unambiguous and clearly not of human origin, I'll be all over it! Till then-
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One of my favorite novels - w/ a cover by one of my favorite artists: Rendezvous with Rama - by Jim Burns, via
@70sscifiart
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There's a reason both the US Defense Dept. and NASA are being more "open about UFO/UAPs." And it it not because of aliens. You don't need teaser-teens from Algedeberainiac Sixty-leven to explain any of it. The more plausible theory is daunting enough.
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The military officer corps is reliable to stand by us. I explain. Then 5 ways Mitch McConnell may be surprised soon. Finally, scenarios if Two Scoops tries 'squatting' in the White House. A longer blog, with stuff you'll not see elsewhere.
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Excellent interview in Entertainment Weekly re: The Postman and its pertinence to these troubled times... and the rise of neo-feudalism that it predicted, along with deliberate efforts to burn down an American institution that predates even the Revolution
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Blast from the past: Omni Magazine back in print...on the newsstands Oct 24
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Excellent! High-school student explains relativity and reference frames
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Take a moment to be amazed... Juno's first closeups of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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Want a listing of hard science fiction, largely based on science, by scientists? Of course no such list can be comprehensive. And this one has quirks. Such as the fact that my own works and collaborations are listed only 12 times.
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The sky is very different in exotic wavelengths. So NASA is doing something cool... establishing new Constellations(!) based on the brightest objects in the X-Ray and Gamma Ray spectrum. One of the top beings so deified? GODZILLA!
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Now that's what I call engineering! Thrusters that haven't been used in 37 years - still reliable!
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Today's harvest from my garden... loads of kale, an abundance of artichokes, red onions... and a rose for my sweetie!
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Be thankful! We are still beneficiaries of the greatest hopeful era our species ever knew. Thank you ancestors who struggled to bring us here. We vow to carry it forward.
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Has anyone mentioned this storage room has a freaking COPIER machine?
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Do not accept moralizing from fundamentalists who rally for a man who is the opposite of Jesus in every respect. They share one thing. Hate.
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Is this so hard? UN-REDACT THE MUELLER REPORT! Leave blanks requested by intel/prosecutors but reveal how much more was crossed out by Barr's sharpie to protect Trump. Un-redacting is QUICK, legit, and will seize headlines and possibly influence the GOP split and impeachment.
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Swamp? One HUNDRED times ad many goppers are indicted by grand juries across the nation as dems are. "Saudi Arabia, China and other nations spent more money at the Trump hotel than previously known..."
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You never notice propaganda you already agree with.
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What? Someone just tweeted to me that I donโt know everything. I donโt. Thatโs why I continue to, you knowโฆ like read and stuff.
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The truest sign of sapience -- I believe -- is an eager willingness to at least notice the group-think errors of your own side.
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Weโre all guilty of these from time to time. Beautiful chart of cognitive biases that plague our thinking
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The planes leaving Kabul should only carry women and girls. You know why.
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Space is like politics these days. So much happening that you can't keep up. The difference - space news elevates the spirit.
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Isaac Asimov's Foundation headed toward TV adaptation
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Honored to have a chance to visit with the great Cixin Liu while in San Diego - and get his signature on The Three Body Problem
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Breakthroughs pioneered by B612 find hundreds of asteroids - some of them dangerous - by mining past data sets. A great way for a small foundation to amplify projects funded by governments. May merit your support. (I am on the B612 advisory board.)
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Astronomers who said: โDonโt worry (much) about Betelgeuse going supernova any time soon-now say โNever mind that nevermind!โ โWe conclude that Betelgeuse should currently be in a late phase (or near the end) of the core carbon burning. 150 parsecs enough?
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That hearty-wise laugh: I hear it now &always. Greg was the best of us! As a human, a good man, a leader in our SF guild of explorers. And most admirable of all โ a good life partner to the wonderful and kind daughter of Poul and Karen and father to their grandchildren.
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If you want to come away with a vivid sense of 'being there'... may I recommend SUNDIVER?
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Fact check: Trump signed the fewest bills into law of any president since Eisenhower, via
@GovTrack
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Amid all the rage at Elon (some of it earned) please remember the 3000 Starlink systems supplied to Ukraine, when they needed it most. And advancing the electric car and self-landing rockets by 15 years. Even worst case, there are far worse folks to yell at.
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George W. Bush has been saved by Donald Trumpโฆ from being labeled the worst president of the 21st Century. Saved, by miles.
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New models suggest a smaller PlanetX, orbiting closer in. This world, frozen and dark, would be no greater than 3 times the mass of Earth, and orbiting at high inclination no farther than 500 au, near the Sunโs gravity-lens zone described in EXISTENCE.
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โFor a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.โ โ the unforgettable Harlan Ellison, who will continue to matterโฆ
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A Real Veteran Knows That Respect Cannot Be Compelled, Bought Or Inherited โ by Jim Wright
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Stand up for science...and our future!
#MarchForScience
this weekend! Over 500 events across the globe
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Before jumping to conclusions about the migrant
#caravan
, consider: The Big Lie, by
@Stonekettle
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LightSail phones home! First confirmed contact with
@exploreplanets
's crowdfunded
#LightSail2
spacecraft - launched aboard a
#SpaceX
Falcon Heavy rocket. Awaiting more good news...
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Sign of our times? Barnes & Noble store had twelve shelving units devoted to Christianity & Religion; four for Science, Space & Mathematics
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Celebrate National
#ScienceFictionDay
on Asimovโs birthday. And make this a year of revival for science, civilization, and science fiction!
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A poignant tale of a mission finally completed โ the soccer ball that survived the Challenger disaster, launched at last into space
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Harlan Ellison distilled the question. "Our duty is to make a world that's even just barely good enough that our kids do better. And theirs and theirs. Till super generations come who look back at us as monsters. Monsters who somehow rose above both their natures and their times.
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