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Commented on What else can you do with a Big Dumb Booster?
A lunar colony could build aluminum-oxygen rockets. The propellant is not as good as the usual stuff but it can be made out of moon rocks. Combined with your idea of using a lunar space elevator, which skips the worst...
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I'd expect offshoots of another species to develop industrial civilization within 10MY and derail any further predictions. My top candidates are crows, parrots, hornbills, apes again, or the mimic octopus. That list is chosen entirely on a fuzzy idea of...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)