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“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
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RANT: When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up to the world around us?
Saturday, April 19, 2025
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INNOVATION: What stands in humanity’s way to live on Mars or elsewhere
Tuesday, March 18, 2025https://radiofarside.substack.com/p/the-gingers
The Gingers — “Martians” sounds so retro
Radio Far Side
Mar 09, 2025
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Donald Trump’s recent address to the joint session of Congress (emphasis on “joint” and “con”), while entertaining at times, offered no real updates on anything of substance. He’s a showman, and it was a show, which the Democrats unwittingly participated in. However, like no-alcohol beer, it was all bubbles and no buzz.
Trump made one quick reference to his administration’s ambitions in space that got the old brain juice flowing. His exact statement was, “We are going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars, and even far beyond.”
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Here’s just some of them:
- Spacecraft Reliability & Transport
- Radiation Protection
- Life Support Systems
- Habitat Construction
- Energy Generation Storage
- Communications Delay
- Autonomous Operations
- Resource Utilization
- Medical Capabilities
- Extreme Cold
- Thin Atmosphere
- Low Gravity
- Toxic Soil & Dust
- Global Dust Storms
- Lack of Liquid Water
- Planetary Protection
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Here’s just some of the changes they would undergo:
- Lower Bone Density & Muscle Mass
- Taller, Leaner Bodies
- Altered Cardiovascular System
- Radiation Resistance
- Oxygen Adaptations
- Increased Isolation Resilience
- Cognitive Divergence from Earth
- Different Circadian Rhythms
- Martian Identity & Independence
- New Social Structures
- Technology-Driven Lifestyle
- New Ethical & Legal Systems
- Speciation Possibility
- Reduced Immune Function
- Vision Changes
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“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” George Bernard Shaw
That’s the first time I’ve see a comprehensive list of the “technical” and “human” problems that need to be overcome.
May not happen in my lifetime, but it will in someone’s.
As an afficiando of Sci Fi, especially Heinlein, I believe it can be done.
I remember JFK promising a man on the moon. Impossible some said.
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” — Robert A. Heinlein
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GUNS: Guess Dementia Joe forgot about the ass kicking that both Russia and the US got in Afghanistan
Saturday, January 27, 2024Biden to Gun Owners: You’ll Need an F-16 to Go Against the Government
AWR Hawkins — 21 Jan 2024
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President Joe Biden again mocked gun owners over the weekend, suggesting they will need F-16 fighter jets if they are really serious about taking on the government.
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AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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And, the Houti, the Viet Cong, etc etc.
“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.” — character Sergeant Charles Zim in Starship Troopers, a book Robert A. Heinlein, author
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RANT: No bail for second offenders, parolees, felons, or “juveniles” — especially in elderly assault
Thursday, June 1, 2023https://nypost.com/2023/05/25/boy-14-busted-in-unprovoked-attack-on-man-71-in-nyc-cops/
Teen arrested in random beating of man, 71, as NYPD seeks additional suspect in elderly assault
By c — May 25, 2023 11:06am
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A 14-year-old boy was busted this week for allegedly slugging an elderly man in an unprovoked attack in Midtown, cops said.
The teen was nabbed at his home Wednesday and charged with assault in connection to the May 6 assault on a 71-year-old man on West 55th Street near Broadway, police said.
The boy approached the septuagenarian from behind just after 9 p.m., punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground, authorities said.
The pint-sized assailant took off, and the senior was taken to Mount Sinai West for medical treatment, cops said.
Days after the attack, police released a photo of the suspect, standing with one clenched fist, in hopes of tracking him down.
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Little coward needs to be treated as an “adult”. Sorry but Heinlein had the correct take on “juvenile delinquents”.
“I told you that ‘juvenile delinquent’ is a contradiction in terms. ‘Delinquent’ means ‘failing in duty.’ But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a ‘juvenile delinquent.’ But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
This 14 year old is a “criminal” and should be treated as such.
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VETERANS: Only vets should vote!
Monday, October 4, 2021https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/pz46fl/what_is_something_that_a_fictional_chacter_said/
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“A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.” — Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.) and student, p. 26 Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein
This resonated with me. As a VietNam era vet, I realized that only vets should vote. I lost friends in the Republic of, had friends and relatives come back “different”, and even lost my best friend who went underground to avoid the draft.
Only vets should vote, because they UNDERSTAND (I’d use the Heinlein word ‘grok’) what it means to send young women and men in “harm’s way”. When politicians and bureaucrats vote for war, I’d hand them a rifle and say “OK, Pops, you go first!”
Dona Nobis Pacem
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RANT: I love all Heinlein’s work!!!!
Friday, January 5, 2018http://ncc-1776.org/tle2017/tle952-20171210-02.html
It’s Time For a City On the Moon by L. Neil Smith lneil@netzero.com
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In his wonderful, life-changing novel that he called The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, the late, great science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (he also wrote Stranger in a Strange Land and The Puppet Masters) demonstrated the vital importance to national security (or just good old-fashioned peace, freedom, and prosperity) of an established American presence on the Moon. In that book, he had a culture of lovable convicts and exiles declare their independence by electrically launching boxcar-sized boulders at Earth, creating purely kinetic impacts that rivaled nuclear explosions in power. I’m not usually one to go looking for international trouble, but for the sake of our health and safety, if nothing else, consider: if those who conceive themselves to be America’s enemies have a monopoly on Lunar colonies, it could be a disaster. Just sing Randy Newman’s “Let’s Drop The Big One Now” to yourself under your breath and substitute Los Angeles and Chicago for London and Paris.
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Let’s call it Heinlein City, okay?
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What tremendous idea!
Let’s start a social media Indigo to make it happen.
I’m in.
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