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Russians Get It Done
The Sep 2010 issue of IEEE Spectrum has a nice example of how determination beats technology. The article is “A Digital Soyuz” by James Oberg, and discusses how the Russians have upgraded their main manned spacecraft. They’ve replaced the main … Continue reading
The Population of Space
The SF writer Charlie Stross recently wrote on his blog about the absurdity of self-sufficient space colonies (“Insufficient Data”). He noted that it takes an extraordinary number of people to maintain a technological civilization, because even the most common artifacts … Continue reading
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A Niche in the Library of Babel 