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  • Again, I’m not talking about a park because in the US there’s enormous amounts of public land. For example, I like camping in Manistee National Forest, which is about a million acres of almost completely undeveloped land. Its just not feasible to build a cable car route to the like 7000 trail heads throughout. Nor would I want that because that in itself would destroy so much more of the nature compared to the handful of small cars.

    Oh and Hannibal’s famous march took 5-6 months. And unfortunately I don’t have that kind of PTO ;)



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    But what’s the alternative?

    I’m not talking about the big national parks, which should absolutely have mass transit to shuttle people into it.

    But the smaller parks, national/state forests, and public lands? I do a lot of backpacking so I’m regularly at an unnamed trailhead in the middle of my local national forest where we’ve been on dirt roads for the last 45 minutes. There’s not really any feasible way to build public transport to service all of that, and I would very very very much not want them building actual roads for busses or rails for trains.









  • This is the big reason I have such strong feelings about pushing kids into a competitive space. Whether that’s sports, chess, marching band, etc. Just as long as there is structured practice and then competition against another person or team.

    Because sports really will teach kids that no matter how hard you practice, sometimes you just won’t win. And that’s okay. The important thing isn’t winning every time, it’s getting back up and pushing even harder when you lose to win next time.

    Its a critically important thing for people to learn, and I can’t think of a better and safer place than youth sports.


  • Its partially because there is only one set of antennas large enough to communicate with it, and that’s only sometimes. Its called the Deep space network and it is very secure because it’s used for many things, not just communicating with the Voyager probes.

    Second, you’d have to have very very intimate knowledge of the hardware, and programming language to even begin to hack it. And the people who do have that knowledge are very very passionate about their probes.

    So I guess technically the answer is yes. But practically, no.