Space Enthusiast (formerly Cynic)
A view of alt.space from those who STILL won't drink the kool-aid.
Apologies again for those who come here looking for space-related commentary (I would not hazard to use the word “insight” since I’m sure a fair number of our readers would be loathe to call us insightful…). This posting, in part a followup to this one: An Argument for Euthanasia has been spurred by the latest […]
Read More An Argument For "Youth"-anasia, ReduxSo on a random surf this morning I came across this particularly stupid editorial/ article: Pigs in Space Courtesy of The Nation magazine. Thankfully most of the commentors on that posting excoriated the author for his naive and regressive viewpoint. I think I recognised a few fellow Cynics readers over there…. So here’s my problem […]
Read More Looking for a New Political Party…We’re Going To The Carnival! Ok, not really. I’ll admit I’m intrigued by this (new to me) concept of the “Carnival” in cyberspace. Consider it a new form of social meme-ing enabled by cyberspace… and yet another example of how electrons triumph over atoms. Thanks and congratulations to Henry Cate for organising this forum for […]
Read More Why Homeschool: Announcing the Carnival of SpaceIn the “life imitating art (imitating life)” category… Saw this news item in the Dutch News this morning. Space Agency Wants Mars Volunteers Seems the European Space Agency, having missed the whole Biodome saga here in the US back in the 90’s, wants to run an isolation trial of 6 victims/volunteers “isolated in metal tanks […]
Read More Pauly Shore… your agent is calling
Space Enthusiast (formerly Cynic) 