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Matt Novak is a reporter at Gizmodo and founder of Paleofuture.com.

Because all available land will be needed for food production Read more

Apparently in the future everyone would be white people clones who go to the same hairdresser, or as I would also like to call them, Stepford Humans.

his conservation is the same as that of the neo malthusians too. Sooner or later when discussing the pragmatics of living up to carrying capacity rather than over certain distasteful views come forward. And guess which race and social class doesn’t factor into the mass sterilisation program (and or ‘acceptable die Read more

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A cautionary tale for electric vehicle dreamers? Read more

I am only here for the Archer references. Where are they, goddammit? Read more

Though likely not a great investment, what a sight it would be to see a Zeppelin fly again. Photos and movies cannot do justice of seeing a Graf class Zep flying the skies. They could be marketed as green since they can use less fuel - perhaps even modern light batteries and or solar during the day. Granted helium is Read more

I love the film of Orville Wright demonstrating the improved Wright Flyer at Ft Myer VA in 1909. Several of the buildings shown in the film (106 years ago) are still in use by the 3d Infantry (the Old Guard) at Ft Myer. Read more

A cautionary tale for Donald Trump Supporters?

My 80-year-old grandma told me the first time her mom saw a radio she thought it was a scam. Read more

Realities of actual mechanical televisions aside, for some reason this reminded me of a passage from Arthur C. Clarke’s Profiles of the Future and while I can’t find the specific passage, did find this summary: Read more

Here’s that Plymouth after unearthing.

“and you are just in time to watch an Earth-set,” Read more