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hereās shatnerās version
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i was disappointed that there was no live audio or video from the capsule (my guess is something went wrong with the feed), but seeing Shatner visibly dazed afterwards and literally moved to tears trying to describe what he saw and felt was pretty amazing. i mean, when has Shatner EVER been at a loss for words?
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On this momentous day when we saw Shatner become the oldest man to fly in space for 10 minutes, my random playlist managed to play these two pieces back to back:
ETA: Then looking at the Guardian, I just now clicked on
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this was making the rounds on Twitter yesterday, and it gave me so many cozy feelings: Behold Sir Patrick Stewart in his Santa Claus pajamas, knitting:
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My respect for Sir Patrick, already at space-high levels, just went up.
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same, same. every time i think heās reached a zenith, he surpasses it somehow.
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That was hilarious!
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he definitely is a man of diverse interests and pleasures. itās part of his eternal charm.
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If youāre on the Twitters, I highly recommend following this account:
Itās a mix of silly jokes about a Klingon coach at schoolā¦ and some of the best motivational statements Iāve read. (Or maybe the Klingon phrasing is easier to get through my thick skull. 
) IMHO, itās well worth the Follow.
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Indeed the spirit of Garāthk flows honorably through his posts. Almost makes me wish I was on Twitter.
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I thought that said āPlagueā instead of āPragueā.
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So much for Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations:
The original article can still be accessed:
While I do consider myself distinctly Left of center, I canāt say I know enough about Marx to call myself a Marxist. (From what I understand of his class analysis, itās a pretty useful tool.) But the system as it is now is killing us. If weāre ever going to reach that Star Trek future we all want, weāve got to be able to discuss how we get there. I really canāt say if this is a coding error or if itās deliberate censorship, but either way, this is a bad move.
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Is Star Trek really communist? I mean the socio-economic system it depicts - thatās not communism to you, is it? Its something else - Iām not sure if we have a name for what it is, but I donāt think its communism. If communism is a way to share resources equitably, and capitalism is a way to share resources inequitably, then Star Trekās socio-economic system is not even concerned with resources because all conventional problems of shelter and food and energy are solved it seems, so post-scarcit-ism is probably closer.
How do we get there? Limitless source of clean free energy. Limitless energy begets brute-force fabrication of matter at molecular level - meaning replication of resources and goods for (free energy =) free, as in replicators replicating replicatorsā¦ The premiss is it will change our behavior. Even the worst greediest of us will loose the will to be greedy when anybody else can have just as much as you without even being greedy, and there is no longer anyway to stop others from having what you have. I donāt know if I buy that but Iām willing to give it a shot.
I think the dangerous part is that once we have the un-ending free energy, and production, you hope the inclination would be then to help everybody get to the same level of security and you know - shelter and food, so mankind could get on to that ābettering itselfā thing. But the risk is the first inclination will be to use that free energy and production thing to smite your enemies and wipe them off the face of the earthā¦ 50/50 chance if weāre luckyā¦
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Socialism of a sort?
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