…in spaaaaaaaace.
I wrote about this a few months ago.
Category Archives: Philosophy
Gravitational Waves
This is a huge day for Kip Thorne (and others). Nadia Drake has a comprehensive story up already.
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Here’s another write up by Matthew Francis at The Atlantic.
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Here‘s the paper itself.
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And one from Miri Kramer.
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And from Loren Grush.
Ending Apollo To Mars
I couldn’t give a heads up, because they only want people on the approved list to call in, but I was the speaker for today’s FISO talk. The audio and PDF are up now.
An AI Breakthrough
Interesting that this happened a few days after Minsky’s death: A computer has defeated a professional at go.
Elon Musk And Stephen Hawking
The Final Frontier
It’s time to claim your piece. An interesting read on space property rights at Aeon, with a lot of quotes from your humble correspondent. [H/T to Paul Dietz]
Eric Drexler
Haven’t heard from my old friend (in both senses of the word these days), but Ray Kurzweil has an interview.
Haven’t listened to the whole thing, but so far, he doesn’t seem to have mentioned that he got interested in the subject of nanotech via his interest in space.
When You Believe In Nothing
Islam becomes something.
“Jesus Didn’t Come To Do TED Talks”
A very interesting essay on the nature of Christ, and (among other things) the difference between the virgin birth and the Immaculate Conception:
Christianity like many world religions has often been less than fair in its treatment of women. But at the heart of historic Christianity there has always been the idea that one young single woman’s faithful choice gave God the opening he used to save the whole human race. Christmas is a feminist holiday, a feast that celebrates the free choice of an autonomous woman. As Christianity has risen to become the largest and most widespread religion in the world, women are coming into their own. It cannot be otherwise; Christianity of all the world’s great religions owes its origin to the choice of a woman to cooperate with God.
That’s a new take to me.
New Lunar Fiction
I’ll have to check this out, and see if it really does beat TMIAHM. Out Heinleining Heinlein is quite the claim.