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Seth Godin – Tribes
In this video Seth Godin talks about how the information society allows people with minority interest connect with other like minded people, no matter where they are in the world.
More Childhood Inspiration
I do not remember when I first saw the movie The Mouse on the Moon but I guess that I was about 10 or 11 years of age when I first saw it. And it is a movie that I enjoy watching even to this day. For those of you who don’t know, and haven’t followed the link to IMDB.com, the movie is a 1960’s English made comedy about how The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick(a Micronation) beats both the USA and USSR in the race to the moon.
The movie The Mouse on the Moon inspired me as a boy and as a man I followed the two aspects of micronationality and Space Travel in Founding The Kingdom of Tycho.
In another cosmic coincidence Leonard Wibberley, who wrote the novel the movie is baised on, and I also share the same birth place of Dublin, Ireland.
Busy Time at the Moon
It’s a very busy time at the Moon these days. Not since the dawn of the space age, with the space race between the USSR and USA have so many probes been sent to the Moon in so short a time. But this time it is not only the USA(LRO, LCROSS) and Russia(Luna-Glob) that are sending probes, but China(Chang’e), Japan(Selene) and India(Chandrayaan), and even Europe(Aurora), have joined the race. Add in the Google Liner X-Prize and there is one busy time in Lunar orbit.
We may have to introduce some form of space traffic control.