Hey buddy, what’s L5?
The young lady from Fashion Institute of Technology asked about the button on my cap. The button said L5. She asked, “Hey, buddy, what’s L5? Is that anything like L7?” Then she made the sign of the square. So I wrote about that topic here:
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This is L5 News, a newsletter about settling the space frontier. Shown above is the Sun-Earth system and the five LaGrange points, which are solutions to the three-body problem in two dimensions. The objects are not in the same scale, but are shown for purposes of illustration.
It’s a pretty good graphic, but if you want others you have but to do a little online research. I want you to know that this publication doesn’t provide an endless assortment of links to click in every post. You should grow up and choose to do your own research. You might not get good results from the evil vicious thugs at Google who have succumbed to being paid apparatchikisti of the nationalist socialist government in the District of Corruption. Since about 2017 they have been modifying the daylights out of their “search” algorithms so you cannot find many good things. So you might look at Yandex and remember to visit it with a proxy server or through the onion router, because things are complicated. Check out our recommended ‘stacks for a few thoughts on where to go for better info. For privacy technology, I strongly recommend Naomi Brockwell of NBTV.media for the good stuff.
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I don’t trust Stripe with my payment information. I don’t trust the American political culture which has been encouraging report monkeys and snitching for a long time, so Stripe now gets a lot of complaints against Substack for reasons and for no reason. Some people are mean, and mean people suck. So if you feel very strongly that you must send money you can try contacting me. I get email notifications about every comment, so you can start there.
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“Be part of a community of people who share your interests.” Okay, so before we gave up and watched the nationalist socialists destroy the National Space Society, which was, as the name clearly indicates, mostly the National Space Institute and a little bit of the L5 Society, we did come up with a pretty cool purpose. “To create a spacefaring civilisation that will establish communities beyond the Earth.” Not bad! So, if you want to know what “community of people” you are joining, that’s it. That’s the group.
You might think of the readers of this newsletter as “the advanced planning committee of the human race” except that committees are a stupid way of getting nothing done. And God has the advanced planning activities well in hand. But if you are interested in making technology anti-fragile for millennia, please do stick around.
Making Technology Anti-fragile
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humanity, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both s…
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