We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Second day of remembrance (2) On this day in 1986 Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnick, Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Greg Jarvis, & Christa McAuliffe lost their lives in the Challenger space shuttle (STS 51-L).
Look here for an independant view on the reliability of the shuttle done by Richard Feynmen after the loss of the Challenger shuttle. I believe that he was asked to do this as part of the official investigation, but when it turned out to be so damning, they refused to use it in the report.
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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Yes. A moment’s silence for the Apollo I and Challenger astronauts, and also the cosmonauts who died in various Russian accidents as well.
Somewhere years ago, I read a line, which resonated, and stuck in my memory:
“Pioneering is the business of finding new and unexpected ways of dying”
I admire astronauts and cosmonauts for their courage in accepting and facing the dangers of their tasks. They are true pioneers and worthy of respect. Few of us would have the guts to get into a car any morning, if the odds of dying on the way to the office were 1 in 50, due to a catastrophic failure of the car….
But 1:50 was Phillip Feynman’s guess of the risk of failure of the shuttle…
And speaking of heroes, IIRC, Sunday was the anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill in 1965…
Geoff