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#MelodySheep is always amazing, but this tour of strange #exoplanets in our stellar neighborhood is truly mindblowing.
https://aeon.co/videos/burning-ice-metal-clouds-gemstone-rain-tour-the-strangest-known-exoplanets -
This article is great. Name checks the #LongNow foundation as well as #cliodynamics (better known to #Asimov #Foundation fans as #psychohistory).
https://www.wired.com/2013/01/forget-big-data-think-long-data/
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Just finished an absolutely magnificent novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora (2015). I found the writing and the scope of it epic and brilliant, but also found the message troubling - as I had been expecting from what I'd heard of it in advance. It's definitely extremely thought provoking for those of us who dream of an eventual human diaspora in the stars.
This spoiler-free review from
@pluralistic covers it brilliantly. #InterstellarTravel #SciFi
https://boingboing.net/2015/11/02/kim-stanley-robinsons-auro.html -
Excellent post on DailyKos about the Battle of Saratoga and why Zelensky chose it to call out in his speech to congress. Included is some unexpected heroism by history's greatest traitor, Benedict Arnold. #Ukraine #RevolutionaryWar #Saratoga #BenedictArnold #Zelensky
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/1/2143341/-Ukraine-Extra-Why-did-President-Zelenskyy-talk-about-the-Battle-of-Saratoga#comment_85294794