Let’s talk about the future of work. Let’s talk about Hacker Culture. Let’s talk about the radical democratization of knowledge and the near infinite possibilities available combining the tons of once cutting edge prohibitively expensive tech now sitting idle gathering dust available for nominal cost via a website this one guy and his pals used to literally bootstrap themselves into space.

Because we’ve managed to keep stumbling forwards, however much a mess we’ve made along the way. And there’s more aluminum sitting in rubbish dumps than mines, they say. Because we keep building new things. And then discarding them; throwing into drawers to rot objects that were for a moment the very highest of technology.

These are the moments I long for The Collapse. Apart from the mass deaths. Obviously.

What can we build when we stop trying. And start playing.

Scrapheap space programs. Fuck yeah.

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I have asked this question in other places, but still have a few unexplained issues. About all this talk of terraforming Mars: I was under the impression that Mars lost whatever atmosphere it may have once had because of the planet’s smaller size, meaning not enough gravity to “hold onto” it. The other theory I read about involved Mars’ magnetic field. So how would it be possible to recreate livable conditions, now?

heythereuniverse: Hi there! Mars actually does have an atmosphere. It’s very very very very tenuous, but there’s something there (Think about it this way, the surface of the Earth has the pressure of ~101 kilopascals (that’s 101,000 pascals), whereas Mars has ~600 pascals. Big difference, but I would still call it an atmosphere. The planet […]

Oversized Rats Could Take Over Earth After Next Mass Extinction

The researchers based their hypothesis on rats’ proven ability to infiltrate most major landmasses and islands on the planet, as well as their persistence throughout the world despite widespread attempts tocontrol their populations. Other animals, such as cats and feral pigs, also do well in diverse ecosystems around the world, but they are not as widespread as rats. In the event of a mass extinction caused either by human activity or a catastrophic event, rats are theoretically the most likely mammals to be spared, given their wide extent and ability to cope in varied conditions, Zalasiewicz said.

Oversized Rats Could Take Over Earth After Next Mass Extinction

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REPTOIDS ARE AMONG US!

curiousjohn:

Nasa’s Hubble telescope has spotted a light-year long cloud of interstellar gas and dust that they have dubbed a ‘Cosmic Caterpillar’. via The Independent

MI5 Spook turned Whistleblower in the late 01990s speaks out against the Military Industrial Complex and the Forever War. Declares her audience of hacker folk The Resistance.

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