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If only!

Emerson's keyboards were the main instrument for ELP. The opening track of their first album was The Barbarian, a version of Bella...

I stumbled across a video on Youtube about five influential keyboard players. I think there there were more. From the text...

It was an honor. Congratulations, @PeroK, @Ibix, @Orodruin, @kuruman, @DaveE, @fresh_42, @Charles Link, @Baluncore, @Chestermiller...

Thanks to everyone who voted for me. I must confess I feel more like a leg-end than a legend, but there you go.

Gosh this thread has moved on a bit! I do not think anyone has mentioned Drake yet? Worth a citation, on the chance of life being else...

It is instructive to see how much effort and complexity it realistically takes to simply transport a population of 1500 humans to the...

Here is a ‘real’ example of plans for a generation ship to Proxima B - 58x6 km and several billion tons. It would take 400 years for the...

This is correct. Not only does it just happen, but is to some extent required for human health and proper development. Guts of mice...

Coming in on this a bit late to manage a point by point discussion, but I am of the pessimistic persuasion in this. At the most basic...

My point is that generally given how little we've done in the past 50 years, it's a bit rich to claim the inevitability of indefinite...

There are also biology and human psychology to take into account.

It's a fundamentally different project to a) build a city on Earth; b) build a city on Mars; c) build a city on an exoplanet. They are...

Absolutely. The problem is that we have made so little progress since the Moon landings. In an alternate human history, we might have...

No one with any sense takes Musk seriously in this regard. Not only will no one finance his plans (because there is explicitly no ROI)...