Cosmic eschatology, Bigelow aiming high, Steampunk PDF magazine launches, political pranks in Second Life…

• 1 – Eschatology & Cosmic Evolution

  David Brin looks at current theories in cosmic eschatology. Brain-bending stuff.

  (tags: science bang big universe eschatology cosmic theories cosmology astronomy space)

• 2 – Bigelow shoots for the moon

  “…the company has set its sights on something much, much bigger: a project to assemble full-blown space villages at a work site between Earth and the moon, then drop them to the lunar surface, ready for immediate move-in.”

  (tags: Bigelow collaboration NASA development research technology station habitat Moon space)

• 3 – steampunk magazine – putting the punk back into steampunk

  Via Warren Ellis, a free PDF zine: “SteamPunk Magazine is a publication that is dedicated to promoting steampunk as a culture, as more than a sub-category of fiction.” Michael Moorcock in issue 1, no less.

  (tags: zine PDF download commons creative free magazine literature art steampunk)

• 4 – John Edwards Second Life HQ vandalized.

  “They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obsenity, [...] all the while harrassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obsenity-laden abuse of Democrats in general and John in particular.”

  (tags: anarchy metaverse participation prank Mudkip griefing campaign politics Life Second)

• 5 – Marijuana, the wonder drug

  “A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine.” Valuable, certainly. Patentable and controllable? Nope. It’ll be staying illegal.

  (tags: research pharmacology cannabinoids drugs medicine marijuana cannabis)

• 6 – Cassini Imaging Diary – Scaling the Heights

  “Cassini’s recent highly inclined orbits around Saturn have provided the most unusual views of the planet and its rings yet seen.” Just simply awesome. Link via anyone with eyes and a heart.

  (tags: probe Cassini images rings planet Saturn space)

• 7 – Stars on Parade

  “Jacobs is a sidewalk astronomer, one of a few hundred amateurs around the US who are on a mission to take their telescopes to the streets.” This is a form of evangelism I have no problem with at all.

  (tags: telescope education awareness public astronomy pavement sidewalk)

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