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). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of thompnicks...@gmail.com > Sent: Friday, August 6, 2021 8:24 AM > To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] for our psychonauts > > 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 > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ > Sent: Friday, August 6, 2021 10:57 AM > To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com> > Subject: [FRIAM] for our psychonauts > > > 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. > > -- > ☤>$ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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