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[Early Content] Episode 370: Geo - Political

🕑 Added 2017-07-22 17:02:56 +0000 UTC

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Steven Doyle

Building shit isn't American; it's human. (I didn't mention money, but, sure, eventually space-based activities will be a significant part, maybe a dominant part, of the world economy. Unless civilization collapses. I give us a 50/50 chance.) I love our space robots. But, humans like to go places. Humans like me want to see the rings of Saturn with our own eyes, close up. Also, I'd like our species to survive, and basic caution dictates we shouldn't all live forever on one vulnerable planet.

Steven Doyle

Thank you, and I'm sorry for being a cranky bastard. I think I was having a bad day.

Cognitive Dissonance Podcast

Hi Steven, I missed this. If you use the podcasts app on your ipod you can use the patron rss feed You can find the patron rss feed if you go to the patron site for our show and look at the top right hand side. The box is labeled Audio Rss Link.

The Gray Hunter

OMG The Cuban gynecologist car dealer is from High Point!

The Gray Hunter

Manned missions are very spectacular, but are very dangerous and much more expensive that the amazing robotic missions we do now. The robotic missions yield tons of info. And, how American! We can build shit and make money off the moon!!! Good grief.

Steven Doyle

Kevin Swanson has a view of the world so narrow and limited by his religious mania, I can easily see him using it to justify any crime, no matter how horrific, that he thinks serves his mental picture of righteousness. And he sure as shit doesn't understand the idea of artistic expression. Sad scrap of a man.

Steven Doyle

Rep. Rohrabacher, to my surprise, actually made a valid point that you guys didn't understand: the Moon is indeed very close, compared to Mars or any other planet, and we've barely begun to do anything in the Earth-Moon system. We should establish a permanent Lunar presence, we should be boosting Lunar material into orbit to build stuff, mining He3, all sorts of stuff, while developing the technology for Mars missions. (We're currently nowhere close to manned missions to Mars or anywhere else requiring prolonged travel in deep space, mainly because of the radiation problem.)

Steven Doyle

It'd be really nice if I could download the episode and put it on my iPod; guess it was too much trouble to code it that way. I'll wait 'til it shows up tomorrow on iTunes (which makes me wonder why I'm spending money on Patreon). ETA: Worked out how to do that (dragging to my downloads, then changing the file extension). Work I shouldn't have had to do. I'm at least as work-averse as Tom, and resent ever having to put forth an effort.

Brian Masters

Just a bathroom note... I'm in southern California and it's a common problem that people don't know the used toilet paper can be flushed, so they toss their shit coated paper on the floor.

Bad Medicine

Just a bonus tidbit: The flags we left on the Moon will have been bleached completely white years ago. There's no atmosphere to protect them, so cosmic rays and radiation blasting off of the Sun will have faded out the colors. Basically, if aliens do show up from Mars, they'll see on the way that we've already surrendered.