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Though the active descent system failed, Philae has successfully landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. So, though the future of space exploration looks grim, today we have some reason to celebrate. Today, for the first time, humanity has a probe operating on the surface of a comet. Granted, I’m not sure such a project would have been […]

At some point I briefly listed my top ideas in my OkCupid profile as “getting the population back down to sustainable levels without killing people or allowing them to die unnecessarily, protecting the environment and the other species we share this planet with, switching to a fair resource-based economy that’ll do away with any need […]

I was saying I had volunteered to help with a translation and it seems that I only finished with that today. At first I had simply translated the ten-minute “slice” I had volunteered for, without even using proper Romanian characters, since my brain just ignores those and replaces them with the standard letters they’re similar […]

Between 2003 and 2006, I was posting reviews on BookCrossing for any book I read that was registered on that site, which, at least after the first part of that period, meant the vast majority of them. Those reviews varied greatly in size, style and quality, tended to include a fair amount of spoilers not […]