Randall Carlson reaches for Tolkien to make a point about scale. When the characters in The Hobbit finally reach Smaug's hoard, the gold is so vast that fighting over it becomes absurd - no isolated faction could ever spend what is already there. The same logic, he argues, applies to the resource abundance that emerging space research keeps confirming exists beyond Earth's atmosphere.
The objections to space development are real - it is challenging, risky, and dangerous. Randall's response is a question rather than a rebuttal. What has humanity ever done that was genuinely worth doing, that genuinely improved the condition of the species, that was not all three of those things simultaneously? The difficulty is not the argument against going. It is the argument for it. The resources are there in quantities that make terrestrial competition look like factions quarrelling over scraps. The only question is whether we are willing to do what the species has always had to do to reach the next level - accept the risk and go anyway.
Anders Sørensen, a Danish clinical psychologist and researcher known for his work on psychiatric drug withdrawal and hyperbolic tapering, spoke Monday at the MAHA Institute summit about psychiatric drug dependency and withdrawal.
Listen closely to what he says.
🚨 🚨 Shocking revelation from @questlove: “I’ve wondered is there a pandemic happening that I’m not aware of. I’ve had 11 friends die of Stage 4 cancer in the last year alone.” 🤯
Stay detached. Don't hyperfixate on small details. Use time and distance as a tool for clarity. And don't mistake what's happening for what's going on.
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🔥🤔 “Why did we crash? Because President Obama needed to hit the WHCD”
“You’ve got to be F0CKING KIDDING ME” - @ShawnRyan762
NEVER FORGET 15 YEARS AGO TONIGHT IN 2011 PRESIDENT OBAMA PUSHED BACK THE OSAMA BIN LADEN RAID ONE DAY SO HE COULD ATTEND THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER.
Seal Team 6 Operator Bissonette said the previous day was chosen because of the weather element. So it was more important for Obama to go to the WCHD & was willing to let this mission that was planned quickly in 2 weeks where TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE not be optimal for his warriors for his own vanity.
What if Bin Laden was tipped off and left? Another reason is if something went wrong and the mission failed or there was a loss of life it would have made it completely impossible for Obama to attend & be around all his sycophants and Hollywood friends to praise him.
This is the difference between President Obama and President Trump. Trump would NEVER have made the WHCD his priority.
This was ALSO the night that Obama’s priority was to embarrass citizen Trump in public… it backfired and TONIGHT IS THE 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE NIGHT HE CREATED PRESIDENT TRUMP.