Spaceman Sam

A Major Newspaper Publishes a Summer Reading List—but the Books Don't Exist The AI disaster is getting worse—and a new survey of 48,000 people in 47 countries makes clear that the public is fed up

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Retro-Futurist Newsletter #10: Space is Hard. Space Business is Harder Starting a Space business is quite a bit more complicated than any other type of business venture.

Hey folks! This new post may be a bit controversial. It is about the challenges of starting and running a space business.
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First Friday: ART X SCIENCE - Chabot Space & Science Center | East Bay Area - Oakland CA Discover the incredible fusion of creativity and discovery at First Friday: ART X SCIENCE at Chabot Space & Science Center!

Hey folks! If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area on April 4, I will be participating at an event at the Chabot Space & Science Center. It is an after hours event, and it looks like it’s gonna be fun for the whole family.

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That was beautiful!

YouTube video by LightningOnDemand Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon

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YouTube video by Kirsten Dirksen Special Operations vet commutes by Flying Car from rural off-grid home

Wow! Not only is the remote house in the mountains pretty cool, but the guy uses a flying car!

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US military releases first photo from orbit from its mysterious space plane The military keeps in-flight details on the X-37B relatively quiet. A new photo gives the first look at what the view is from space.

This top-secret military spacecraft has been conducting experiments in Earth orbit since 2010. It has returned to the Earth several times. The missions are top-secret and only recently have we learned bit more about what the Air Force is doing with it.

taskandpurpose.com/news/space-f...

Game of Shrooms Game of Shrooms is a once a year world-wide art-N-seek event created by Attaboy in 2019.

Game of Shrooms!

It’s an annual event where people create a work of art using mushrooms as the theme. Then you hide them in some secret place and use Instagram to give people clues and hint how to find them. It’s seems to be a global phenomenon.
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Hey folks!
Does anyone go to BayCon? Is it worth setting up a book booth there? Is it worth trying to do a presentation there? It's only been about 20+ years since I've attended... (ugh, can't believe I said that).
baycon.org

It’s pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actually Just end all the private-sector profiteering.

I usually try to avoid posting political things, but this article by Cory Doctorow is really good:
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Retro-Futurist Newsletter #9: No Space Infrastructure, No Space Settlement! infrastructure (in· fra· struc· ture) Noun.

Imagine if you will, that there were support services in place that humans can call upon while traveling between Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond? This month’s blog post is about space infrastructure:
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YouTube video by Def_x United States | California Firefighting | Massive Effort Knocks Down | Los Angels Wildfire 2025

Found this cool video of military support of the fire effort in LA. Looks like it was filmed during the Hughes fire.

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ROBOEXOTICA – Beautiful Failure ROBOEXOTICA is an event that has been a globally unique platform at a very special interface of art, technology, research and science, since 1999. Roboexotica is the longest-running festival in the fi...

For my robot art geek friends!
Johannes Grenzfurthner the MONOCHROM crew in Vienna have released a wonderful book about ROBOEXOTICA, the longest running Cocktail Robotics Showcase in the world!

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Retro-Futurist #8: New Year, New Announcements Howdy folks!

Finally, something to talk about! I've been writing and posting articles monthly on Substack. Topics are typically space-related, or expand upon my new book, "Creature Comforts in Space."

This month's article has a big announcement: I'm working on a second book!

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here, have some fish from 2002

Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft takes the clearest picture of Venus ever made

Howdy!

Hello fellow humans!
So much to talk about. What would you like to hear? I can talk about space travel and living in space. I can talk about my adventures at Burning Man. I can talk about our amazing Obtainium Works Art Car collective. So much fun to talk about.

I guess I should post something here. Howdy folks! I’m still getting used to this new place.

Testing testing. Joining yet another social network.