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News Briefs 06-09-2012

A late-notice gathering of news briefs, as RPJ’s internet connection has been taken down by the Blue Pill supporters…

Quote of the Day:

consciousness is indeed functional and is not an “epiphenomenon” that simply
happens to accompany certain kinds of cognitive processes.

Sir Roger Penrose

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  1. 100 Year Starship and Beyond…
    Nice to hear that former President Clinton is behind the 100 Year Starship journey. The task will require a very busy century of development to launch to Alpha Centauri by 2100. The task is harder than “Star Trek” and UFO Folklore might lead one to believe.

    1. I hate to be a stick in the
      I hate to be a stick in the mud about this, but I don’t think we deserve to spend money on these grandiose and quite expensive space projects while there are so many people suffering economically right now, and while the planet is being ecologically maimed. These projects almost sound like a capitulation to the idea that our home planet is beyond help and we might as well set our sights on another planet to ruin. I know that a lot of wonderful new technology can issue forth from the space projects, but I just wish the urgency of our problems here on this planet caused us to spend more money trying to solve them rather than shoot ourselves off into space. By the same token we should be drastically reducing expenditures on the military/industrial complex which is justifying itself via false flagged wars. We are deploying our fiscal assets so irresponsibly as to be courting a huge planetary disaster. Our true “space” program ought to be concerning itself with our own “space.”

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