One thing that’s perfectly consistent among totalitarians of all stripes is that they don’t like for anyone to escape them. Enough escapees and the totalitarian could find himself exercising power over… no one. What fun would that be? Today, governments control the habitable land surface of the Earth. (Only penguins consider Antarctica habitable.) …
Category: space travel
Sep 16 2024
Is There A Way?
Our favorite Graybeard has written a concise, well-stated piece on interstellar travel, and why it’s currently out of the question. Barring a huge surprise in physics, that adverb “currently” might better be “permanently,” for a simple reason Graybeard gives: Voyagers 1 and 2 are the farthest man made objects from us, and have …
Aug 24 2024
The Last Thing I Expected
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is coming back to Earth… without its crew: NASA officials announced on Saturday that the troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft that shuttled two astronauts to space in June will return to earth without them. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck in space after engineers discovered helium leaks …
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