CONTRARY BRIN: More space updates… And yeah, the ongoing UFO silliness

I am a co-author of this paper, “Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats,” announcing “Project Sundiver”… offering a wide suite of potential fast interplanetary missions that could accelerate far faster than today’s rockets can manage, by swooping DOWN to pass very close to the Sun, spreading lightsail wings to catch a boost off the blasting brightness there. The team did proof of concept with a grant at NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program – (NIAC).

But sure, I have another reason to root for “Project Sundiver” … my first novel, Sundiver!

As for the ongoing UFO silliness… this Forbes journalist back in January did something rare – he asked excellent questions, understood everything I said, and described (condensed) it accurately, in a wide range of topics. “Why Are UFOs Still Blurry? A Conversation With David Brin.”

“Believe” what you like. Just don’t claim to be modernist or scientific in this cult that keeps repeating – twice per decade for the last 80 years – the exact same incantations and spells, never producing an iota of actual evidence. Oh, I have studied concepts of the ‘alien’ all my life! A bazillion concepts that are vastly less tedious and bo-ring…