[FRIAM] for our psychonauts

[Marcus Daniels]

And something will have to power the artificial magnetosphere after the teraforming..

On Aug 6, 2021, at 4:52 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

 Marcus Daniels wrote:

Don't forget about Mars!


LANL physicist Steve Howe was a proponent of plowsharing Rover<https://www.lanl.gov/science/NSS/issue1_2011/story4full.shtml> into a nuclear rocket for Mars with the argument that the radiation exposure to astronauts by the drive was less than the extra time spent outside the earth's magnetic field (charged-particle shield) in the cosmic/solar radiation flux.

He went on to promoting antimatter (anti-protons) instead:

    https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2020/06/steven-howe-breakthroughs-for-antimatter-production-and-storage.html

Oh yeh, and he's the first person I know to have self-published (science) fiction through Amazon (before Doug Roberts even).

He used to carry a briefcase full of copies on his work-travels to sell on the plane and/or restock the rack at the ABQ Sunport.   I Just checked his Amazon page and it seems he's continued to riff:

Steven-Howe<https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B005L9MAL2?_encoding=UTF8&node=283155&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=author-sidecar-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader>

His first book exposes his techno-libertarian tendencies.  I just learned of the sequel(s).



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Reminds me of that period in which people were desperately looking for something to do with nuclear explosives other than kill one another. Like:  "Let's blow a new hole in the Isthmus of Panama!"  Project Plowshares, it was called.

Nick Thompson
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What Should We Make Of Sasha Chapin's Claim That Taking LSD Restored His Sense Of Smell After COVID?
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-should-we-make-of-sasha-chapins

I haven't read it, yet. I'm hoping posting it here will remind me to actually read it.

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