[FRIAM] for our psychonauts
Prof David West
profwest at fastmail.fm
Fri Aug 6 21:59:12 EDT 2021
Poster in store announcing the end of the Downinders Propgram - government payments to those affected by the radiation cloud from Nevada. Includes Arizona north of Grand Canyon and most of Kane and Washington Counties in Utah.
davew
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021, at 7:29 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> And something will have to power the artificial magnetosphere after the teraforming..
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>> On Aug 6, 2021, at 4:52 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
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>> Marcus Daniels wrote:
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>>> Don't forget about Mars!
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>> 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.
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>> He went on to promoting antimatter (anti-protons) instead:
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>> https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2020/06/steven-howe-breakthroughs-for-antimatter-production-and-storage.html
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>> Oh yeh, and he's the first person I know to have self-published (science) fiction through Amazon (before Doug Roberts even).
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>> 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:
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>>> 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>
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>> His first book exposes his techno-libertarian tendencies. I just learned of the sequel(s).
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of thompnickson2 at gmail.com
>>> Sent: Friday, August 6, 2021 8:24 AM
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>>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] for our psychonauts
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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.
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>>> Nick Thompson
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>>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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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
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>>> I haven't read it, yet. I'm hoping posting it here will remind me to actually read it.
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