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This was first posted to Twitter: I think SpaceX should study all options to make humanity multi-planetary in the face of over-regulation. This Reuters article says that SpaceX’s Starship testing (and therefore development) could be delayed by “anywhere from two to five years” in case the FAA conducts a…

Some time ago (second half of the 2000s and first half of the 2010s) I was quite active in the Virtual Reality (VR) metaverse. Now I’m experimenting with VR worlds again. I’m experimenting with Croquet, which I think is the most promising Virtual Reality (VR) metaverse platform around. Croquet is…

First posted to Twitter: Last week Twitter blocked links to SubstackInc and for a few days we couldn’t post, like, or even view Substack content. Things seem on their way back to normal now. The ban was probably related to Notes, the new Twitter-like feature of Substack. Notes was…

I subscribed to Twitter Blue and now I can post long tweets (long enough for a quick blog post). So I’ll use Twitter for blogging. Please follow me! This is my first long tweet: I subscribed to @TwitterBlue. Now I’m the proud owner of a blue verified badge, and…

I find Jaron Lanier’s “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” very sensible and persuasive. I want to “remain autonomous in a world where you are under constant surveillance and are constantly prodded by algorithms,” or in Lanier’s words, I want to be “a cat.” Yet I…

It is more than a year since I last posted here. I fact, I don’t update this website often. If you want to follow me, my main website is Turing Church, a Substack newsletter / podcast about cosmism, metafysiks and spaceflight. Please subscribe! When I want to say something that…

Update: VIDEO — Terasem Space Day, July 20, 2022. See also my commentary. Update: Don’t miss the Terasem Space Day Colloquium on July 20! Cultural, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of spaceflight and space expansion. Rick Tumlinson, Riccardo Campa, Elaine Walker, Frank White, Frank Tipler. The July 2022 Terasem Colloquium…

Update: full VIDEO recording of the webinar. On February 9 I will participate in a webinar titled “Spirituality and the Moon,” organized by the Cultural Considerations Working Group of the Moon Village Association.