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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Looking back Back in May of this year, the Mars Global Surveyer was commanded to turn its’ camera outwards at the solar system. These marvelous images show us the home system as not-so-far-future Martian colonists will see it.
I was particularly captivated by this view of North and South America as it would appear to an amateur astronomer.
Photo: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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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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Hey! You can see my house from up here!
This gets to me everytime I see it.
Moon Landscape by Petr Ginz His talent and imagination were boundless and that his picture got to go into space with Illan Ramon was a wonderful tribute.
As Gary Larson wrote: ”If you squint your eyes just right you can see the Zork in the Earth!”.
SPOILER
The cartoon showed America-shaped indigenous Moon dwellers gazing up at the Earth. As the astronomically literate will have spotted, it is a two level joke at the expense of both Human anthropocenticity and American parochialism (the Earth does not present only a single face to the Moon in the way that the Moon does to the Earth).
What a waste of american taxpayers money.
Huh. *I* don’t think it’s a waste, because I am one of those foolish dreamers who hopes to see, at the very least, working laboratories on other stellar bodies in my lifetime… not in the least because I think the best solution to “overpopulation” is to go upward and outward.