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the brief fame of 2003 QO104

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 September 09 by Anton

Current asteroid impact risk. These tables interested me less for of the warning they carry than for the way they present data. I had wondered how astronomers reckon impact probabilities, and these tables present it neatly. (Explanations at the foot … Continue reading →

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free speech makes them easy targets

Posted on Monday, 2003 September 01 by Anton

Is this loon for real? . . . there is NO excuse NOT to implement a Communism, and either KEEP implementing it till every human on earth is dead, or the criminals have all been killed, WHICHEVER comes first I don’t really … Continue reading →

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transportation disasters of the future

Posted on Sunday, 2003 August 10 by Anton

Blaise Gassend charts what happens to an object that falls from the Space Elevator.

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tartans in spaaace

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 July 09 by Anton

Ken MacLeod, author of The Stone Canal &c, has a blog. (Thanks, Travis!) But — oh dear . . . It’s reminded me of the few times when I’ve felt the clammy suckers of capital’s covert-action tentacles on the back of my … Continue reading →

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bioethics IV

Posted on Sunday, 2003 June 15 by Anton

Amy Greenwood takes on those pestilential ‘bioethicists’ whom I have heckled more than once. Yes, if the world is different, we will think about it differently. So what? A worldview in flux is not an ethical problem, and why assume … Continue reading →

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demilitarize fictional space!

Posted on Monday, 2003 June 02 by Anton

Don’t you wish that just once there could be a tv series where the chief executive of a space station is called Mayor or Abbess or even Baron rather than Commander?

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bioethics III

Posted on Monday, 2003 March 17 by Anton

Randall Parker goes after the bioLuddethicists at some length. If there’s ever a charity dedicated to rejuvenating the poor, might I suggest that priority be given to those whose native language is dying out?