Nov. 6th, 2013

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Various links with some commentary:

1) Back in the heady days of the Space Race, there was an idea to send people into space by riding a wave of nuclear explosions. Supposedly, design work got serious enough that engineers from the Coca-Cola company were brought in to design "vending machines" to pop out nuclear bombs once-a-second.

2) From the same blog, Obamacare as a corporate pizza party.

3) An interesting memorial visible on Google Maps.

4) My publisher, Hadley Rille Books, has a new website.

5) One of the arguments against space colonization is that "we haven't colonized the Gobi Desert." Well, actually we have, but as this article points out, were it not for a lot of the type of engineering you'd need for a space colony, America's second largest city would not exist.

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