Ethicist has a new definition

A person that can speak for than ten minutes on a subject that he has given less than five minutes of thought to. A while back https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600689/we-have-the-technology-to-destroy-all-zika-mosquitoes/#.VriPigEaxkY.twitter Todd Kuiken, an environmental scientist who studies governance of new biotechnology for the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., says even an invasive species might be filling a useful biological niche. “I don’t think the entire ecosystem is going to collapse if you removed an invasive, but there is a lot of interconnectedness between species, especially in the tropics,” he says. “My concern is more the ecological interactions.” Now  I may be a little late…

O’Neill Cylinders

Here is a fairly succinct summary of O’Neill Cylinders in video form. Even shorter they are a  space staton that rotates to generate artificial gravity by rotating. (by the way we know that zero gravity is bad for people and the earth normal gravity is  alright. We have no evidence for anything in between. So is half normal gravity half as bad as zero gravity? 20% as bad? 80%? worse on the heart but not as bad on muscle and bones?) Using an O’Neill Cylinder for an extended time at various fractions  of the equivalent earth gravity would be a way to test…