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The VASMIR engine uses magnets to super heat gas into a plasma that can drive a ship to Mars in just over a month. Take a look at how it works and ponder the possibilities.
James Cameron and a few other underachievers have announced plans to mine asteroids in space. But the state of property law in space is… up in the air. How would you encourage space entrepreneurship?
Watching Starship Troopers last night made me want to give thoughts to a bunch of problems I’ve had with the movie for a long time. Staying late up into the night, I spelled them out in the hopes of spurring a discussion about what does and doesn’t matter in a storyworld.
Richard Branson has come out not just for de-criminalization but for legalization of drugs. Of course, the government won’t agree on any ‘premise the drug war is a failure.’ Given the cost, both in terms of real lives and money, will anyone who believes in keeping drugs illegal ever come around?
