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Turning factoids into facts: Mars, Hitler and history
Let’s All Go to Mars! So many MAGAts, including the MAGAt King, have been heralding our imminent landing and community-building on Mars, presumably via one of Elon Musk’s rockets. Another presumption: it is one which isn’t prone to shattering mid-air … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Fascism, Government, Human rights, Immigration, The Facts of Life
Tagged "History of the Modern World", Adolph Hitler, Elon Musk, Galactic Cosmic Radiation, George Santayana, German Chancellor, German Communist Party, German elections 1932, German President, history repeating itself, JJ Palmer, Joel Colton, kidney failure, Mars trip, Nazi Party, Paul von Hindenburg, Poland, Reichstag, SpaceX, tesseract, Weimar Republic, World War II
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What mankind has wrought, then and now
From Harper’s September Findings: A study of 3.3 million years of stone tool production suggested that cumulative culture emerged among humans 600,000 years ago. Gee. Since I don’t have recollections that far back, I did a search (“what kind of … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged cumulative culture, Elon Musk, Harper's Findings, Homo heidelbergensis, manned missions to Mars, Mars, SpaceX
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Oops. News from my watch over protean geniuses
I spent the day yesterday with three of my immediate beloved family members. We had a lot to talk about (I’m not sure why; maybe you can figure it out). At some point up came the subject of how certain … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Journalism, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich
Tagged Elon Musk, Mars, SpaceX, Starlink
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