While flying, taking the train and driving, I had alot of time to think. I read a great deal of Collapse. I’m more than a little sad that LJ has suffered as a result of work, my commute, and WoW. I’m now working out far more frequently than I had been during grad school, but still far less frequently than I would like to be. <\/p>\n
Other thoughts included population pressures and social norms. Tuff Voyaging by George R R Martin, The Mote in God’s Eye, and Collapse (among others) had alot of interesting thoughts on the topic. In particular, Collapse talked about Rwanda and showed how it matched Malthusian expectations with regard to overpopulation. Also, the acceptance of war as a necessary means of population control (compare that to the morality of abortion, another topic discussed in The Mote in God’s Eye, or starvation). I also thought Niven’s Protector made an interesting commentary on tribalism, and by extention nationalism, and it’s potential consequences, if one chooses to look at it in that light.<\/p>\n
Space travel (we really should send probes first. I calculated how long it would take a probe to reach Alpha Centauri, assuming .1g acceleration the whole way (obviously reversing direction at the halfway point). It wasn’t terribly long, but I don’t know what kind of merry hell relativity would play with it. Never got that far in physics.) Also, colonies on other planets within the system or interior to hollowed out asteroids (an option that Transportation played another role in my thoughts, with respect to air travel. A giant gaping emissions problem. We need to develop a reasonable interregional (and international) alternative that damages the environment less than the airplane, while wasting no more time. My off the cuff thoughts included shadowrun-esque, aerodynamically shaped, lighter than air vehicles (at least partially solar powered), and maglev rail. <\/p>\n those were the big things, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While flying, taking the train and driving, I had alot of time to think. I read a great deal of Collapse. I’m more than a little sad that LJ has suffered as a result of work, my commute, and WoW. I’m now working out far more frequently than I had been during grad school, but … Continue reading “Travel musings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}