Sep 23, 2023
Reader, hi, it’s the 24th issue of the White Pill, and it’s easily our best issue yet. This one has a lead story: an interview with the legendary Robert Zubrin, founder of Mars Society, prolific space and science writer, and preeminent aerospace engineer. We discuss farming on Mars, and how to get rich off of Martian technology. After the lead story, it’s your White Pill standard fare: NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, using neutrinos to predict supernovas, a look at Axiom space station crew accommodations, facial recognition for your pets, the world’s first robot factory, eVTOL airport shuttles, artificial wombs, your daily reason to think about ancient Rome, and way more.
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