The Wall Street Journal posted an explainer video this week about tension between China and Elon Musk. The issue is the thousands of satellites Musk is putting in low-Earth orbit as part of his Starlink internet access service—satellites that China’s manned space station has twice had to dodge to avoid devastating collision (and that are so numerous and close to Earth that they occasionally get
Again chock-full with very valuable and well-researched information--thank you.
The term Waste Age was new to me. It's somewhat reminiscent of the dystopian tale of an AI algorithm going rogue and producing nothing but paper clips. Evidently we've saddled ourselves with an economic machinery that does that, but instead of producing (only) paper clips, it converts carbon (in oil, coal, or wood) either into plastic or else CO2, both of which are soiling our shared environment and are seriously jeopardizing our future.
Er, Robert, I think you mean Robert Kaplan, not Kagan, but I can see why they are easy to conflate. As Wikipedia puts it, "Kaplan is not related to journalist Lawrence Kaplan, with whom he is occasionally confused. He is also sometimes confused with neoconservative scholar Robert Kagan.[5]"
Problem with "making deals" with Russia (ok, they won't join NATO...)...is that enough is never enough. Give an inch, they take a mile. They're gangsters.
The Earthling: China vs. Musk; Blob vs. Reason; Welcome to the Waste Age, etc.
Again chock-full with very valuable and well-researched information--thank you.
The term Waste Age was new to me. It's somewhat reminiscent of the dystopian tale of an AI algorithm going rogue and producing nothing but paper clips. Evidently we've saddled ourselves with an economic machinery that does that, but instead of producing (only) paper clips, it converts carbon (in oil, coal, or wood) either into plastic or else CO2, both of which are soiling our shared environment and are seriously jeopardizing our future.
Er, Robert, I think you mean Robert Kaplan, not Kagan, but I can see why they are easy to conflate. As Wikipedia puts it, "Kaplan is not related to journalist Lawrence Kaplan, with whom he is occasionally confused. He is also sometimes confused with neoconservative scholar Robert Kagan.[5]"
Problem with "making deals" with Russia (ok, they won't join NATO...)...is that enough is never enough. Give an inch, they take a mile. They're gangsters.