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The Potential of Cheap Space Travel
The scenario goes like this: the builder pays IOS $8000 for the kit/launch combo, builds the kit, sends IOS the completed satellite for testing, inspection, and integration into the NEPTUNE 30 rocket. It is then launched. Lift off is not … Continue reading
Idea: Gaming Online Reputations
Here’s something I pitched to my friend Keith Hanson (of TweetingTooHard fame) a while ago. Now’s a good time to post it, given that Seth Godin’s essentially doing the same thing for corporations (and charging insane prices for it, without … Continue reading
Independent Media in Afghanistan
Brian’s trying to bootstrap independent media in Afghanistan. Help him out. Also, some cool thinking on how to do it on the cheap. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Saif Group
Nice history of how Pakistan’s Saif Group has exploited that country’s instability over the last fifty years to generate massive returns. They’re currently looking for a way to drill for hydrocarbons in Taliban territory. (Answer is simple: buy them off.) … Continue reading
Pakistan Oil Disruption
AP Burqa-clad assailants armed with Kalashnikov rifles and hand grenades attempted to attack an oil terminal in southern Pakistan but were thwarted by a security guard who was gunned down as the suspects escaped, officials said Tuesday. The three attackers, dressed … Continue reading