Assorted content for your weekend reading.
- Kat Eschner interviews John Peters about the growing inequality in wealth, income and influence. And Scott Martin offers a reminder not to conflate the gross disparity in pay between CEOs and workers with anything that's actually been earned.
- Mitchell Thompson discusses how privatized surgeries are a threat to the fundamentals of Canadian health care. And John Bell writes about the human consequences of putting profits before caring for people.
- Peter Reina's review of a book on project failure includes a handy chart showing the level of cost overruns for different types of infrastructure - with renewable energy ranking as having by far the lowest level of overruns, while nuclear operations are joined only by the Olympic Games as the absolute worst. And Nojoud Al Mallees reports on the refusal by oilsands giants to spend a nickel of their windfall projects on their much-hyped claim to decarbonization.
- Jonathan Chait writes about the John Durham investigation as a prime example of the right looking to its own paranoid fantasies about perceived enemies as a model for its own plans. And Asawin Suebsaeng and Patrick Reis offer a look inside Donald Trump's end-of-term killing spree as a particularly cruel and violent example.
- Finally, Meghan Krausch discusses what's been lost from the ongoing collapse of Twitter, while noting that the ultimate purpose of allowing for connections with other people can be met in new and less-corporatized ways.
I've come on board a few technologies mildly for space. Nuclear, it depends what the USA is doing re: their own power sources and any manned Jupiter missions or ice retrieval. Cis Lunar might be a cost overrun or with disasters. I'm only assigning it 1/3 my participation. I can maybe provide wire I will cut so it curls. It is good for a dish or two in SK but is a health hazard. Moon dust can be piled under the strips or chain mail mesh to get tens of metres sizes. Without water forget in situ. Water can be brought from an ice moon with good ion engines. I can bring prototype sapphire armour. Tiny thin strips to learn micrometeorite weather. Making something from regolith that traps the samples after they hit would be bonus. Terrariums without much water are the biostuff. Many ice moons have similiar gravity. I envision a cube of dice sized samples of different species. Each cube moved to the sensor/grooming station. Many more species than now, but awaiting ice transfers to really build up. I envision some R+D good enough to be worth the dry payload. CIS-Lunar is a big risk/reward.
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