Ep. 21 - No World by The Relentless Picnic published on 2017-08-21T13:49:41Z Lose yourself in the wild-eyed fearsome shadow of totality. Come see what hippies the Moon made of our steely-eyed missile men. Plus—Elon Musk trips over his own simulated shoelaces, and the Moon Matrix is fully decoded. Join us, but only if you've got the right glasses. SOURCES: Quora queries: https://www.quora.com/topic/Elon-Musk Elon Musk speaks with Walter Isaacson at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit: https://youtu.be/fPsHN1KyRQ8 ; "Elon Musk: The Chance We Are Not Living In a Computer Simulation is 'One in Billions'," by Andrew Griffin in The Independent (June 2016): http://ind.pn/1TXY3zF ; On Elon Musk's mission to Mars: "Exodus," by Ross Anderson in Aeon (Sept. 2014): http://bit.ly/1N7gT0N ; Lo and Behold (2016), dir. Werner Herzog. David Icke coming out as the son of God in 1991, https://youtu.be/NapHiWsoFXI & https://youtu.be/4q9ncm2jotI ; David Icke's "Lion Sleeps No More" seminar, queued up to the moon part: https://youtu.be/VJorKZEbQsA?t=51m21s ; "Total Eclipse," by Annie Dillard (first pub. 1982). Available here, till 8/22: http://theatln.tc/2upvpQt ; For All Mankind (1989), dir. Al Reinert: https://youtu.be/FJiHAoAru54 Genre Inquiry & Travesty Comment by Francis Bass You guys's understanding of NASA, and science, and public vs. private solutions is woefully misguided. Remember the Challenger explosion? It wasn't a private corporation that decided it was okay to ignore massive safety flaws. I'm not trying to say one is better than the other—I think they both have areas of strength, NASA should be focused on data collecting, sending out rovers and such, let private enterprise worry about moving around human bodies—but this idea of NASA, and the Apollo program, as fundamentally wholesome or admirable, while SpaceX is somehow morally repugnant, makes me think you guys have not considered this with the kind of care you take with other topics. 2017-08-22T16:26:32Z