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From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.

 
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.  
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.

 

“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.

 

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How It’s Made: Rubber Balls

6:01 pm

An evening pause: Not surprisingly, much of the process is automated and illustrates some very sophisticated engineering that we all take for granted. However, I was astonished that the stripes are still hand-painted on.

Hat tip Jim Mallamace.

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  • Questioner
    July 17, 2021 at 11:02 am

    Mr. Z.:

    I disagree with your statement. No, a large part of the process is not very much automated. There is still a lot of manual work that is harmful to health. I can well imagine how it stinks there in the factory, because I once worked in such rubber factory like that when I was a teenager.

    By the way, the prices for basketballs are very different, as we can see in this example (see link). But I assume that most of it is produced in the same Asian company Proyuan (Vietnamese or China?).

    https://www.amazon.com/basketballs-basketball-courts/b?ie=UTF8&node=3396751

  • Jeff Wright
    July 17, 2021 at 6:13 pm

    I’d like one without the covering. Looks like a spider planet :)

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