Thnak you, anti-vaxxers

The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued an advisory over concerns someone with the measles may have transmitted the virus to other individuals.

I have no idea what went on when I was out

But the dry food feeder was knocked over and all the older cats are making a point of eating off Ibid's plate, even Fig.

Those giant space habitats of the 1970s

Anyone ever looked at their acoustics? Do the ones with large continuous spaces have a whispering vault effect?

Winter came

"RMR: Seven Day Forecast" (Watch on YouTube)

It's -11 C

There are puddles of water everywhere and some of them are steaming.

The King of Escape

"Chamallow, le chat roi de l'évasion - The cat king of escape" (Watch on YouTube)

Sometimes I forget

What a terrible person Garret Hardin was.

But there is a more serious criticism to be made. Let us, for the sake of argument, grant all of Professor O'Neill's technological and economic assumptions. The space station has now been completed. It is ready for occupancy. Question: Who is going to be permitted to move in?

Because of our powerful (though recently developed) tradition of integrating minority groups it is obvious that the complement of the spaceship would, if it were U.S. controlled, have to include blacks, whites, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Indians from Wounded Knee, Wallaceites, American Legionnaires, Weathermen and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. If the emigrants were drawn from the whole world they would have to include Moslems, Hindus, Irish from both Belfast and Dublin, Greeks, Turks, Israeli, Arabs, Lebanese and Palestinians.

Some of the groups just mentioned are races, some are religions, some are political groups. It doesn't matter. Generically we can call them all tribes, where a tribe is defined as a group whose members pursue one code of ethics in their ingroup relationships, and another code for their out-group.

A libration point spaceship is a precision instrument, far more delicate in its construction and far more vulnerable to sabotage than is our massive earth. How could such a fragile craft withstand the buffeting of warring tribes?