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What Potlatch lessons will we need to survive in space during our lengthy exodus? Doug Graham's answer: I’m not sure what you mean. Potlatch is a custom of some of the native tribes of the northwest. The custom calls for the giving of expensive gifts, or in some cases, destroying ...

Strong views on either side of this debate: www.quora.com/What-Potlatc...

02.12.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will traditions like Potlatch re-emerge as vital pillars of the nascent #SpaceEconomy?

02.12.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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How effective is bicycling in the fight against climate change? Are there even more effective options? John Brett's answer: This β€œfight against climate change” is a fiction, invented to put people in a state of fear, and helplessness. Cycling is an excellent means of transport, means of recreation, an...

And here's my personal #SustainableTransportDay story, in case you're interested: www.quora.com/How-effectiv...

30.11.2025 07:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#ClimateChange and #Bicycling, what do the numbers say?
Here's to #SustainableTransportDay!

30.11.2025 07:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How effective is bicycling in the fight against climate change? Are there even more effective options? John Brett's answer: This β€œfight against climate change” is a fiction, invented to put people in a state of fear, and helplessness. Cycling is an excellent means of transport, means of recreation, an...

See my personal #SustainableTransportDay story here if interested: www.quora.com/How-effectiv...

30.11.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Darn! I missed this in June.
#ClimateChange and #Bicycling, what do the numbers say? Here's to #SustainableTransportDay!

30.11.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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As India becomes the third space superpower by 2035, will the Bhagavad GΔ«tā’s β€œdo your duty sans results-attachment” replace Western indi... Linda Hazlett's answer: After reviewing the options given with AI…I think the rivalry will come from India’s Bhagavad Gita…”do your duty sans results-attachment”… Western individualism has obviously f...

I'm wondering which religious festivals we'll see celebrated via off-Earth media in coming years. www.quora.com/As-India-bec...

27.11.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exciting prospects for India ##SpaceEconomy!

27.11.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#booksky Where are they now? #TheLittlePrince

26.11.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Will we bring β€˜Earth nature, circa 2025’ to space, or will each planet & habitat evolve its own biosphere full of genetically modified & ... 1 person wants answers to this question. Be the first to answer.

We bring our 2025 standard human into #SpaceEconomy projections. Is this realistic?

www.quora.com/unanswered/W...

25.11.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#Space #adaptation is likely to accelerate over time, taking our species in interesting new directions.

25.11.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A 1960s Global Odyssey at the FriesenPress Bookstore During the turbulent 1960s, when much of the Western world was undergoing social upheaval and unrest, and years before computers, GPS, smartphones and modern-day guidebooks, two young men set off from...

πŸ“šπŸ’™ #booksky #Travel #Memoir #UK #Global #1960s #Insightful #Fun A 1960s Global Odyssey by David W. Skillan | The FriesenPress Bookstore share.google/fG41yIHxw2AE...

24.11.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A 1960s Global Odyssey at the FriesenPress Bookstore During the turbulent 1960s, when much of the Western world was undergoing social upheaval and unrest, and years before computers, GPS, smartphones and modern-day guidebooks, two young men set off from...

I recently read a great travel memoir, A 1960s Global Odyssey by David W. Skillan | The FriesenPress Bookstore share.google/LRj9J0d36OkC...

24.11.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It makes sense.

Sell planes out of country, so they can't fly into in-country buildings.

πŸ’‘βœˆοΈ

24.11.2025 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Never apologize, never explain."
β€”Benjamin Disraeli
(no proof he really said it).

"Never apologize, never retract, never explain. Get the thing done and let them howl."
β€”Nellie McClung

"Never explain, never retract, never apologizeβ€”get the thing done and let them howl."
β€”Benjamin Jowett (~1903)

24.11.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What will be the main sporting events on off-Earth settlements, given the need to minimize injury risk? Pike Larner's answer: Off-Earth settlements face a hard constraint no Earth society has ever had: serious physical injury is catastrophically expensive (medevac impossible, single digits hospital beds...

#Prototype: VR-augmented AI-mediated micrograv Parkour jousting.
www.quora.com/What-will-be...

24.11.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Orbital sports are a subject worth serious #speculation. @bear604.bsky.social

24.11.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
David Skillan's Travel Book

Recently enjoyed: riveting travel memoir, A 1960s Global Odyssey : Around the World in 80 Months. David Skillan's Travel Book share.google/Ew5gYVZIsfR5...

07.11.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What do you like to bake for your partner's breakfast? Answer (1 of 7): My wife’s breakfast is generally fruit and coffee or tea. β€œBreakfast” is a relative term in our house as we are retired. Bedtime can be as late as 1:00 or 2:00AM so naturally breakfas...

What do you like to bake for your partner's breakfast? #Baking #Breakfast
www.quora.com/What-do-you-...

31.10.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More train, FTR:

03.09.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1486    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 21
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β€ŽGemini - Created with Gemini

Curious minds want to know more... g.co/gemini/share...

30.08.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Torpor biology / research for long space voyages. Ample scope!

30.08.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Martian resources could become valuable enough to create interplanetary trade? Answer (1 of 2): Ty QPG, > What Martian resources could become valuable enough to create interplanetary trade? 0.38 Earth gravity can give rise to entire classes of televised sports, creative & leis...

... I was looking for somewhere to drop this link. www.quora.com/What-Martian...

28.08.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's also the ambiguous "highest bidder" to consider πŸ˜‰

28.08.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Wade Grant, Musqueam member of parliament in Vancouver, plans to face divisive times: thenarwhal.ca/wade-grant-v...

23.08.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tsleil-Waututh Nation restores bull kelp in Burrard Inlet The Nation worked with a kelp rescue organization for the last two years to restore the plant in waters near Whey-Ah-Wichen /Cates Park and New Brighton Park

Tsleil-Waututh Nation restores bull kelp in Burrard Inlet

13.08.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Study reveals colonization wiped out nearly 90% of marine food ecosystems in Vancouver's coastal waters | CBC News A new research partnership between the University of B.C. and Tsleil-Waututh Nation indicates impacts of colonization, including smallpox, overfishing and industrialization, destroyed nearly 90 per ce...

A study, in partnership with the səl̓ilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation & UBC, found the impacts of colonization from 1750 (including smallpox, overfishing & industrialization) destroyed nearly 90 % of the food systems & sources in the Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

17.08.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Mysteriously high," you say?

28.08.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What might a human-AI hybrid society look like in 300 years? Pike Larner's answer: Thank you Amir Sekh, The singularity’s veil obscures the future, rendering prediction a dance with shadows. Yet, peering back from 2500, we can weave a vivid β€œmight” for 2325’s ...

What might a human-AI hybrid society look like in 300 years? www.quora.com/What-might-a...

03.08.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting insight on the existing human-AI organizational vacuum!

03.08.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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