Another video of mine from a little while back, but totally pertinent to why there's more wealth to be found in a few asteroids than - at least near-term - the entire Moon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQl...
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Another video of mine from a little while back, but totally pertinent to why there's more wealth to be found in a few asteroids than - at least near-term - the entire Moon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQl...
What do Hari Seldon, Karl Marx & Wall Street 'analysts' have in common? Their predictions change the things they predict-about! That's the 1st half of a strange cycle you should know about. So should the oligarchs now reviving old Karl from the dustbin.
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Here's the only good (and rockin') song - (Meatloaf at his best) - in an otherwise pathetically over-rated fad/cult drip. If you truly want fantastic songs and drama and comedy and fun for those midnight showings, try PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRl...
Heck, for your weekend pleasure and interest, here's another interview that probes issues far more important today than they were, even then.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A0f...
A riff to amuse you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRU2...
Later elaborated in VIVID TOMORROWS: Science Fiction and Hollywood - www.davidbrin.com/vividtomorro...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRU2...
All of a sudden we're getting these vids in feed.* I leave it to you whether my 'predictions' from 13 years ago were on target. And should they lend credibility?
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*As if Ais want them to come back? ;-)
This next 13 months may be our last chance... and they are fighting as if they know it's theirs.
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More pertinent than ever!
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More pertinent than ever, for right now.
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New blog about the weird Hegseth summons of 800 generals &admirals to a 'meeting' that at-best screws chain-of-command for days. But maybe far worse, now that most counter-terror and counter-espionage groups have been trump-disbanded or neutered.
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/are-...
Note: Before calling this 'meeting,' DF* Hegseth fired most of the JAGs** who advised generals what's legal. JAGs could excuse generals from illegal orders and now they are gone. Without them, the officers coming to Quantico (at great expense) will be helpless.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMJ...
Over the years, astronomers have spotted holes and large pits dotting Venusβ surface, suggesting the existence of lava tubes. Venusian lava tubes, may be especially large, arrayed along volcano rims, and the most extensive subsurface cavities in the solar system. futurism.com/space/venus-...
24.09.2025 04:28 β π 21 π 3 π¬ 5 π 0Back to weekend posting while I work on my AI book. This time about the real crimes against America they are distracting you from. No, not Epstein. I mean gutting the JAGs & Inspectors General and esp the counter-terrorism agencies. Now why would they do that?
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Texas epic poet Frederick Turner passed, alas. One of the finest male humans I ever knew. Also brilliant: likely the best epic poet since Byron . And brave enough to set his grand works where epics now belong -- in bold futures with science fictional premises.
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Having reamed the FBI & demolished our counter-terror and counter-spy agencies, he now needs to ignite vigor into the groups who did 9/11, so that he can have the kind of pretext that worked so well, for Bush. Which this Bagram base drool is meant to accomplish.
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While they distract you by banishing late-night comedians, the Trumpist-KGB gang severs the sinews of Law. I cited gutting of the Inspectors General in most agencies. Now it's JAGs, plus the anti-terror & counter-espionage experts, laying us open to enemy attack.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Our survival depends on where we are in these 'cylinders.' And those pushing fear are committing suicide.
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Suddenly, Trump's Postmaster general is demanding vast info on every person who rents a PO box! Photo ID and eerything but fingerprints. If Biden or anyone else had done this, you'd be screeching tyranny! But the MAGA brown shirts who howled about invasive government are totally okay with it now.
18.09.2025 22:30 β π 21 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1Well, it's sad. The Evpatoria radio telescope should never have been used for military purposes. For two years, Ukraine warned the Russians not to. And their warnings were taken as a sign of weakness and Putin ordered the mis-use continued. And so we all lose.
www.space.com/astronomy/dr...
The trajectory to another 9/11 (which empowered GW Bush) is on course. Esp. if the mid-terms seem a likely blow-out vs redders. Be ready. Canned goods and flowers to stick in the barrels of the rifles of the troops (our neighbors' kids) whom he'll try to send against us.
17.09.2025 16:29 β π 29 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0DT is permitted by Putin to YOWL at his master, to maintain credibility. What he will never, ever do is actually and palpably harm his master's interests. In this case, he knows that Europe needs to get through one more winter before lining up full energy independence. Hence DT safely does nothing.
14.09.2025 21:05 β π 22 π 11 π¬ 3 π 1Terry Pratchett's comedy series is now a fun movie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Kz...
Or so it seems from the first few minutes.
Watching this week's symposium of NASA's Innovative & Advanced Concepts program - (NIAC) -
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Come on by today and tomorrow!
Midweek posting is a chapter (from a novel in-progress) set in a near future based upon today. A scene with utter pertinence to current problems! As promised in my previous posting, it shows how one hero might set things in motion to save America.
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You're warned. This weekend's post is long, as I dissect what might happen if (when) Trump passes from the scene, and disparate factions in the GOP axis draw their long knives. And why their greatest tool in maintaining GOP discipline might fail suddenly.
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
Check your registration now! Many red states are purging voter rolls to eliminate Democrats or independents. But there is a way to safeguard your right. Re-register Republican. I did, back when CA was GOP gerryed, to vote in the only election that mattered in my district, the Republican primary.
07.09.2025 20:13 β π 15 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1One of the finest young writers I ever metβ¦ and I met her pretty young(!) β¦ has some lovely short works (some of them super-short!) to share with you here: aribrin.substack.com?r=lgm8k&utm_...
07.09.2025 16:58 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Okay, a terrific sci fi reference on Instagram. Watch it play. Of course you'll get the reference to THEY LIVE! But points for anyone citing the brilliant source story by Robert Sheckley!
www.instagram.com/reel/DHe2q8P...
My parents in the WWII Greatest Generation knew more about history and re Karl Marx. YOU should have at least a glimmer how stupid aristocrats are now reviving Marx from his crypt. Start here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/davidb...
...and dive deeper here:
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2007/01/blac...
This is how 9/11 happened. GW Bush diverted counter-terror agents to search (uselessly) for scandals under Clinton. Counter-terror divisions have been stripped bare under Trump. And we need to yell about it. So when bad things happen blame will fall where it belongs...
apnews.com/article/trum...?