The barriers to establishing a permanent presence on mars are many and appear insurmountable to anyone with a little bit of critical thinking and scientific knowledge. Among them are the radiation, lack of atmosphere, biological effects of low gravity, and toxic dirt. Elon Musk and others are selling a dangerous fantasy
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Very Small Ocean Flyers
In 2025, Solar & Clean Power met all demand growth while fossil electricity stayed flat. Fossil exports in mid-2026 are paralyzed on 4 seas & in Russia, while China rolls out EVs (electric vehicles) & renewables at massive scales. Climate Victory is Possible. But Climate Change presents a less talked-about problem: the threat to Ocean Oxygen. Seawater only contains 6-10 mg/kg of molecular oxygen, O2, compared to 210,000 mg/kg in the air.
Trump NSF Backs Down from Dismantling Critical Ocean Monitoring Systems – CNN
After bipartisan backlash Trump admin backs down from unilateral and sudden dismantling of ocean monitoring network to ‘consult’ and ‘study’ ‘path forward’. Some of the kinds of news coverage / content that can be expected to disappear if the Skydance-Paramount / Warner Bros. Discovery merger is able to go through […]
Dissolving Thoughts
First draft posted 6/19/2017 Technically speaking, the scatter of papers represents entropy, while the persistence of furniture represents illusions of permanence. There is no persistence of the construct of self, at best, a standing wave, yet we all act ‘as if’ it were so, and in time the elements wear on it. Meanwhile, in their […]
New Text Block for The Key of Sparrows Fortune Telling System Postcards
Card text block that I glue and paste on: A MODERN NON-TAROT ORACLE / CREATIVITY / PROBLEM SOLVING TOOL. STAY TUNED FOR A FUTURE CARD DECK. A 12X18″ LAMINATED PRINT IS AVAILABLE NOW WITH A MORE POLISHED VERSION IN PROGRESS. ART PRINTS ARE ALSO PLANNED. The system was designed such that you can use three […]
3 More Sample Readings Using The Key of Sparrows
Full key: https://tkos.dev The symbols were selected using random.org which uses ‘atmospheric noise’ (I think electromagnetic noise) to generate true random numbers. The system was designed such that you can use three coin flips to generate a binary number to select the column and roll a dice for the row.
Some sample The Key of Sparrows readings from postcards
One of 6 readings: Might suggest (if accurate) the recipient getting a housemate or moving in with a partner: “Ordering thoughts. Rethinking, reorganizing your mind. The order in which things are done is important here. The meeting of two minds. Two people. Two mindsets. Coming together as a household. Don’t we all contain multitudes?”
More New Postcard Poems
More new postcard poems. A more complete example of the format pictured: Threading through the sequence of a day is the sequence of a life, like thread stitching, passing through cloth. It gets the job done, cleanly or messily. Onwards! To the final puzzle There is no magic solution of us We are Earthbound Animals […]
SOUND CHECK: ‘Cryptogram of Cosmic Glue’
[…] cannot know what will be…Yet see End User License Agreements & Pre-Incarnation Instructions just in case of hints or portents or sleet…..
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….. Aleph .. the instantaneous .. All things you have seen are true .. the rest only imaginary. The endless N-Dimensional fractal foam, merging and re-splitting of any alternate worldlines…; Sometimes with total disregard for rationality, logic, science. […]
World Ocean Review 8 is Out: The Ocean – A Climate Champion? How to Boost Marine Carbon Dioxide Uptake
The World Ocean Review has released World Ocean Review 8: The Ocean – A Climate Champion? How to Boost Marine Carbon Dioxide Uptake. This is a peer-reviewed (but not original research) publication which is put together like a textbook accessible for a general reading audience. You can read it online, download it as one or several PDFs, or order a paper copy free of charge (and free shipping!).
Lost in Mist 