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Have you ever heard of Walter Bosley? He's done a bunch of writing on the mystery airships from the 1800, and a secret society called NYMZA. His politics are 2000s normie tier but he has some interesting stuff.

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Fascinating - I had not heard of him. Will research, please send any relevant links you may have.

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I should mention he's former AFOSI and FBI.

His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AdventureMan6399

His publishing house: https://lostcontinentlibrary.com/

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Wonderful! You give one hope.

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Yes! A very nice episode. I may never be fully converted to jungle musics, but the song at the end was excellent.

The pragmatism on finding ways to bring together people with entirely motives for going to space makes a lot of sense. If it is literally the largest undertaking that humans will pursue, a lot of people and a lot of money will be required.

The space tether / elevator idea is good. I remember reading about this many moons ago and it seems to me like the best long term cost-reducing way to maximize our low orbit industrial capacity.

One last thing: if we use the moon as a gas station, will we ruin the night sky forever? How visible would lunar bases / industry be from earth?

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The Junglist Movement is not for everyone, I suspect some sort of proximity to the actual jungle is needed.

Indeed, this is the biggest process we face in our history, and it's important to understand oneself and all the other actors within it in order to play out first and second order effects of acceding to everyone's wishes.

I've only barely scratched the surface with the non-rocket launch tech here, there is SO much more to go into here.

On the "ruining" question: we see approximately 60% of the lunar surface. The Moon has 37.9 million squared kilometers, so we see 22.74 of those. For reference, Asia is 44.4 MM km^2 large. Ruining the view depends on what you mean? Would intense artificial lighting like what we have on Earth be enough to ruin it for you? Those would probably be the most visible elements. Specially because the lunar day-night cycle is 14 days long, so those lights would only be on during New Moons, not Full Moons, making the light even more visible.

Assuming lunar industrial development will happen at 1% the speed of Earth development, it will take a long time before we've electrified the Moon enough to make a visual impact. And even then, the worst of it will likely be a lit up New Moon.

That said, this could be mitigated by developing the Far Side exclusively, or preemptively prohibiting lights from being on the Near Side. But that is starting to sound like the kind of policy the EU would propose.

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Would be interesting to get into the racial/IQ aspects of space exploration...

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As BAP would say, a race-blind meritocracy is practically the same as whatever we would want to implement anyway.

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Of course.

ASC & Aural Imbalance - Overcast Skies

J:Kenzo - All In

Eitan Reiter - Ups And Downs

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