Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight
An evening pause: They are having so much fun doing this. Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Just an ordinary story about the way things go,
Round and round nobody knows.
But the highway
Goes on forever.
That ol’ highway
Goes on forever.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
This weeks FISO telecon was different. Some guy (a philosopher?) argues that the (three main) arguments presented for space exploration are humbug and he refers to real science about it. 1) Humans are explorers by nature. 2) Space exploration inspires higher education. 3) We need a frontier.
The discussion afterwards is interesting, the audience was not convinced.
http://fiso.spiritastro.net/telecon/Schwartz_1-17-18/
One argument he has is that a space colony likely becomes authoritarian because of the many common goods in the shape of life support systems and such. A single person could destroy the entire colony, so very tight controls and restrictions will be required.
But it’s like that on Earth too. The atmosphere is a global common good. Instead one doesn’t need to care about pollution on the Moon. The “goods” are a bit different, but the fundamental problem and solution the same.
You got all that from a song?