The Power and the Money

Happy Moon Landing Day!

  That is all.  Oh, and Brian Kilmeade apologized. 

OK, that isn't all.  The truth is that while I can see absolutely no good reason for there to be a permanent human presence on the Moon, a small irrational part of me finds it both depressing and ridiculous that there isn't one four decades after humanity first set foot on its surface.  Where's my Pan Am ticket?  It's 2009 already, for crying out loud!

So I'd be happy if somebody could figure out a reason to settle the Moon.  Which I kinda doubt they will.  I mean, you'd have to live in a tube or a cave or something unpleasant like that.  And what would you sell to the people back on Earth to get the money to pay off the other people back on Earth who put up the cash to build that tube you're living in? 

But you never know.  Something might turn up.

That is all.

A Philosophical Inquiry

On another blog, someone recommended this piece here.  It argues that it would be very difficult for a modern nation to undergo a national mobilization on the scale of WW2.

I wrote the following, not about the piece, but about the philosophy of science: