Abundant Mars

This still lives in my brain. Great episode

Space-station specific accents are going to be so cool.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.05.663289v2.full.pdf can you... I found the paper! Let me extract the key information and create the requested summaries and analyses based on the information available from the search...

Based on www.perplexity.ai/search/https...

Which explains with a bit of a summary.

🧠 New systematic review reveals psychedelic drugs don't simply "increase cortical excitability" as commonly thought. Instead, they modulate both excitatory/inhibitory processes in complex, dose-dependent ways via 5-HT2A receptors & NMDA receptor interactions. Neuropharmacology just got more nuanced!

I certainly prefer Substack to other sites and especially to the news which has negative psychological issues when reading too much of it

I looked that up the other day. Given there's only about 100 to 400 people who died from actually getting the Covid vaccines. I also wanted to know what rare thing it was like dying from and apparently coconuts 🥥 aren't as deadly as I've been lead to believe.

This is why you have such inspiring optimism and excitement. You see awe and wonder all over the place.

YouTube video by vlogbrothers You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information

This video from @hankgreen.bsky.social is a great metaphor and description of what I think has happened to the Internet, and our overall "consumption" of information, no matter how nutritious or empty the calories of information we consume are.

youtu.be/9euKCrTyMEc?...

YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg The talk that changed the web

and there's the Theo video on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqnT...

Abundant Mars on Substack Just came across this video by Dami Lee on living on the Moon and there’s some similarities to living on Mars which apply. The concept of private spaces being important obviously applies both to the ...

Living on the Moon has some obvious similarities to living on Mars.

About 2 weeks.
I've got a list of like 60 points, some of which include what happens in your brain not just the keyboard, CPU, ram, network, BGP routing, DNS, DB, etc...

Instead of learning how to perform land seizures, we learned how ecosystems require balance and resources must be managed for the future. A good game. I liked the encoded values.

Key Concepts from Yuval Noah Harari's "Nexus" Summary of "Nexus" by Yuval Noah Harari This is a summary generated by Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model. It was given an 833KB transcript based on a Whisper AI Speech to Text of the Audiobo...

I think this excerpt is from Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.
A book worth reading. www.kublermdk.com/2025/03/14/k...

screencap of the famous quote from mean girls “stop trying to make fetch happen”

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Nor kids

Jevons Paradox is different in an Abundance Centered Society

Jevons Paradox is different in an Abundance Centered Society

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70 km above Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Captured during the Huygens probe's descent

Ouch, the burn 🔥

Actually I think we need both. Systemic change to make it easy for the good option, like recycling in this case, to be the default. But also individual and community change is often needed first to help create the tech and push the behaviour.

@colinrturner.com I think this is similar to your point about Recycling. It's an Onion article that makes one cry instead of laugh.

Although it would be better if we had Cradle to Cradle, closed loop material flows as the default. But that requires changing just about everything.

YouTube video by Advanced Tinkering Neither Gas nor Liquid - Supercritical CO2 #science #chemistry

We want to use frozen CO2 as a radiation shield on Mars. But it has some quirks
youtube.com/shorts/iwAh8...

Can you provide a link to the NASA source on this? I'd like to know more

Into the soil and froze is the current best guess. Some also escaped the atmosphere.

Because Huawei is no longer an option and they have great camera tech, like the ability to take long exposure photos of the stars and get star trails, etc..

The Sabatier Reaction runs best at 400°C and you want a ratio of 3.5 to 4 oxygen per methane. Also, you have to store the liquid methane at a chilly 95° Kelvin

Also this point "Mars is not a rock it's a world, with the surface area approx that of all continents on Earth 🌎"

Page 70 of The New World on Mars book explaining Rodwells

I knew about the Sabatier Reaction, but hadn't heard about Rodriguez wells (Rodwells). 1kw of power = 150kg of water which seems like a good deal. It'll then need very good filtering given the toxic Martian soil and dust mixed into it.

Currently reading Robert Zubrin's book The New World on Mars and his ideas are like better researched more fleshed out ones of mine. I keep wondering how we are going to build a base on Mars, what it'll be like running a forge to create steel, if it can also be used to make glass and ceramics

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Healthcare: is it a right or a luxury? | Tarik Sammour | TEDxAdelaide

Getting the level of public and private healthcare right is important.
youtu.be/jCVmY1iOJQs?... it seems USA is too far into the private. But enough public, whilst the health insurance industry and pharma companies also play a big role in excessive costs.