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Tech Won't Save Us - What Elon Musk Won’t Tell You About Settling Mars w/ Zach Weinersmith. You probably know that space colonization fantasies are only that, but with Musk and Bezos building rocketships and speculating about that, and NASA adopting travel to Mars as its vanity project since the last little while, it’s worth taking a closer look at the topic.  Host Paris Marx’s guest Zach Weinersmith describes all the ways in which settlement on the Moon and on Mars are incredibly difficult and expensive ventures, which are absolutely impossible to become for-profit projects at this time even if they were doing it for the expensive minerals, and all the infrastructural, environmental and biological difficulties humans would face trying to make a go of it there.  It’s very thorough and amusing.

Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) - suck my dick and balls i work for nasa: the naomi h story. I must say that the first few times I heard Jamie Loftus guest on Cool Zone Media shows, I wasn’t too keen on her, but she has really grown on me, and I’m enjoying this new podcast of hers. I feel like Robert Evans has to dig deeper and deeper into the annals of history to feed his bad guy of the week show, so this meme history podcast is a nice change of pace for CZM.

The Eurasian Knot - The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin. If you’ve been a Ukraine war watcher like me, especially listening to the Eastern Border podcast, you’ve heard about Prigozhin endlessly while he was running the Wagner group, all the way until his failed march on Moscow, and eventual airborne demise.  This post is a decent biography of him, which frankly I wish I had heard while he was alive, because they explained fairly succinctly how he came to be who he was and how he operated, something that Kristaps took many, many episodes to explain, between rants about this and that.  Though he did describe how Putin and YP basically work within a “prison rules” framework repetitively…

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