[Kzyxtalk] MOTA: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: MOTA: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

Deadline to email your writing for tonight's (Friday night's) MOTA show 
is about 7pm. If you miss that, send it whenever it's done and I'll read 
it on the radio next week. There's always a next week.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am on 107.7fm 
KNYO-LP Fort Bragg as well as anywhere else via KNYO.org. Also the 
schedule is there for KNYO's many other even more terrific shows.

Any day or night you can go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and 
hear last week's MOTA show. By Saturday night I'll put the recording of 
tonight's show there. And besides all that, there you'll find a groaning 
table of delicious information to eat until showtime, or any time, such as:

Antivax people I know from the MCN Announce listserve were antitvaxxing 
a long time ago-- it isn't just the latest vaccines; they were against 
vaccinating children for measles, polio, tetanus, yadda yadda. And 
they're the same people who've been claiming all along that cell phones 
cause brain cancer. Here's a graph of the incidence of brain and nervous 
system cancer over the last thirty years. In 1992, hardly anyone had a 
cell phone and there were cell towers hardly anywhere. In 2022, nine out 
of ten people use a cell phone and cell towers are all over the place. 
If cell phones cause cancer, the line on the graph should be nearly 
vertical by now. But it's entirely horizontal, see? Not even a blip.
https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html

A better asteroid-impact info calculator. Choose an impact point, set 
asteroid diameter, speed and angle, launch. Reconsider your objections 
to our learning how to protect against this in real life, and against 
space science in general. (via BoingBoing)
https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/

Meanwhile at ground zero, which is everywhere, there are tests they used 
to give children on whether this thing will fit there, or how do you 
have to turn this shape to get it through that shape of hole, if it will 
even go. I was especially good at it. I was good at pretty much all the 
tests except the one, later, in high school, where you plod along 
copying a column of numbers from one list to another with a golf pencil 
for twenty minutes, to see if you're suited for a career in a financial 
scrivening firm in 1846. "Fuck this," I recall muttering two minutes in, 
and skipped the whole rest of that one, dragging my overall percentile 
down out of the clouds. Though it turned out there was a college in Iowa 
specifically interested in young people who similarly said /Fuck this/ 
about that. Anyway, the video. Space aliens who've figured out faster 
than light travel between star systems see things like this, and what do 
you suppose they conclude about our formidability to withstand their 
invasion plans?
https://twitter.com/ronkephillips/status/1599679652414504960

--
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com