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The Unavoidable Ignorance of Dr. Etumbe & I
I began to see a therapist last November. I’ll call her Dr. Rilka. She has a PhD in psychology from a US university as well as having begun her career as a medical doctor in one of the breakaway former...
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Paranoia + Precaution = The Dead Man’s Switch
My wife has often accused me of being rather naive. I tend to think the world and all its people are fundamentally good, that evil is simply an aberration, that bad people are just waiting, willing,...
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Mutable Thought-Memory Method
In my post, Paranoia + Precaution = The Dead Man’s Switch, I vaguely mentioned a method I had for ensuring I wouldn’t reveal information under duress. Someone quite reasonably doubted such a thing...
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Probing the Mystery of Spirit’s Censors
An article in last week’s Sun newspaper was entitled “NASA: Evidence of Life on Mars”. The piece opens very confidently: NASA scientists last night unveiled compelling evidence of life on Mars. A...
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Accelerated Natural Death (The A.N.D. Program)
About four years ago I was in Washington, DC for a conference. I had arranged in advance to meet my friend for dinner at a chophouse off the main drag in Washington’s charming throwback neighborhood of...
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Voyager 2 Has Flipped Its Bit
I was just alerted to this story by one of the followers of this blog… Last month Voyager 2 began returning some unusual signals. This story is being reported by alternate news outlets as suggesting...
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The Big Lie of the Space Race
This was originally included in the story I haven’t had time to complete, The Feynman Constant. When Sputnik 1 entered orbit on October 4, 1957 America’s cold war confidence was badly shaken. The...
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The Things that Matter and the Things that Don’t
My wife left me two weeks ago, on Independence Day. Actually that’s not factually correct, she made me leave her, the kids, and the home. She intends to file for divorce. I suppose I could have made...
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Cover-Up on the ISS?
I got an email yesterday from someone I used to know slightly at NASA Lewis. He ended up retiring a decade after I moved on. He did some contract work on shuttle and ISS systems. We were never close...
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Unwinding a Sean O’Keefe Assassination Plot
This morning I was saddened to wake up and learn of the crash of a floatplane in Alaska carrying former NASA head Sean O’Keefe (and former Senator Ted Stevens). It was initially feared that O’Keefe was...
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