David Brin
@davidbrin.bsky.social
Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! When my real job is to speculate entertainingly... not necessarily to be right!
http://www.davidbrin.com
http://www.davidbrin.com
In 1999 I wrote to TIME Magazine that no one on Earth deserved Person of the Century honors like George Marshall, my hero just after Ben Franklin. The Marshall Plan is just 5% of what he accomplished, or enabled others to accomplish.
www.marshallfoundation.org/marshall/ess...
www.marshallfoundation.org/marshall/ess...
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
In 1999 I wrote to TIME Magazine that no one on Earth deserved Person of the Century honors like George Marshall, my hero just after Ben Franklin. The Marshall Plan is just 5% of what he accomplished, or enabled others to accomplish.
www.marshallfoundation.org/marshall/ess...
www.marshallfoundation.org/marshall/ess...
Asked re the "orgies" that GOPRep Cawthorn+others call 'routine' in the DC GOP (& resulting blackmail*), Nancy Mace evaded with "I don't get invited to parties. I have no friends. I live all alone with my dog." Say…what!? Not a denial!
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Asked re the "orgies" that GOPRep Cawthorn+others call 'routine' in the DC GOP (& resulting blackmail*), Nancy Mace evaded with "I don't get invited to parties. I have no friends. I live all alone with my dog." Say…what!? Not a denial!
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Cheney funeral? See 1st image below from Bush Sr. funeral. Carters, Clintons, Obamas &Bidens all recite Apostle's Creed mostly by heart while Trumps stare into space. 2nd pic is Carter's funeral. See respects +shared laughter at a eulogy anecdote. All except... The faces in both say it all.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Cheney funeral? See 1st image below from Bush Sr. funeral. Carters, Clintons, Obamas &Bidens all recite Apostle's Creed mostly by heart while Trumps stare into space. 2nd pic is Carter's funeral. See respects +shared laughter at a eulogy anecdote. All except... The faces in both say it all.
Foxite shills call Democrats "communists" HA! This pic is from the Kremlin today. Putin called the fall of the USSR "history's worst tragedy." His 5000 Lenin-raised "ex" commissars & relabeled KGB are rebuilding it with help from our suborned GOP. THE anti-Stalinists in USA? The AFL-CIO!
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Foxite shills call Democrats "communists" HA! This pic is from the Kremlin today. Putin called the fall of the USSR "history's worst tragedy." His 5000 Lenin-raised "ex" commissars & relabeled KGB are rebuilding it with help from our suborned GOP. THE anti-Stalinists in USA? The AFL-CIO!
You've seen capsule summaries of What's Happening. Why 1/3 of Americans desperately suckle lies from the Fox teat, even after all the insanity we've seen? Here's mine.
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
You've seen capsule summaries of What's Happening. Why 1/3 of Americans desperately suckle lies from the Fox teat, even after all the insanity we've seen? Here's mine.
TransAstra developed and tested a Capture Bag intended to catch anything from small rocks to house-sized boulders.based upon grants that we awarded the company at NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program – (NIAC) – www.nasa.gov/niac-funded-...
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
TransAstra developed and tested a Capture Bag intended to catch anything from small rocks to house-sized boulders.based upon grants that we awarded the company at NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program – (NIAC) – www.nasa.gov/niac-funded-...
Thought my days of getting 2s were over, but...
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Thought my days of getting 2s were over, but...
Dig it. we can verify our atomic ordinance with computer models +lab bench tests that Russia can't duplicate. They know their arsenal has decayed. They may have few fully working bombs. Now Trump has given them an excuse to test them the old fashioned way. And blame us.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Dig it. we can verify our atomic ordinance with computer models +lab bench tests that Russia can't duplicate. They know their arsenal has decayed. They may have few fully working bombs. Now Trump has given them an excuse to test them the old fashioned way. And blame us.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
There's still time to order the one Halloween accessory (and for the following 13 months and 37 months) that we all should wear proudly. Everyone will know what it means yet not dare to criticize it without admitting they are confederates.
www.walmart.com/ip/Federal-U...
www.walmart.com/ip/Federal-U...
October 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
There's still time to order the one Halloween accessory (and for the following 13 months and 37 months) that we all should wear proudly. Everyone will know what it means yet not dare to criticize it without admitting they are confederates.
www.walmart.com/ip/Federal-U...
www.walmart.com/ip/Federal-U...
Over the years, astronomers have spotted holes and large pits dotting Venus’ surface, suggesting the existence of lava tubes. Venusian lava tubes, may be especially large, arrayed along volcano rims, and the most extensive subsurface cavities in the solar system. futurism.com/space/venus-...
September 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Over the years, astronomers have spotted holes and large pits dotting Venus’ surface, suggesting the existence of lava tubes. Venusian lava tubes, may be especially large, arrayed along volcano rims, and the most extensive subsurface cavities in the solar system. futurism.com/space/venus-...
Texas epic poet Frederick Turner passed, alas. One of the finest male humans I ever knew. Also brilliant: likely the best epic poet since Byron . And brave enough to set his grand works where epics now belong -- in bold futures with science fictional premises.
youtu.be/HpCPLGhQooE?...
youtu.be/HpCPLGhQooE?...
September 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Texas epic poet Frederick Turner passed, alas. One of the finest male humans I ever knew. Also brilliant: likely the best epic poet since Byron . And brave enough to set his grand works where epics now belong -- in bold futures with science fictional premises.
youtu.be/HpCPLGhQooE?...
youtu.be/HpCPLGhQooE?...
The trajectory to another 9/11 (which empowered GW Bush) is on course. Esp. if the mid-terms seem a likely blow-out vs redders. Be ready. Canned goods and flowers to stick in the barrels of the rifles of the troops (our neighbors' kids) whom he'll try to send against us.
September 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The trajectory to another 9/11 (which empowered GW Bush) is on course. Esp. if the mid-terms seem a likely blow-out vs redders. Be ready. Canned goods and flowers to stick in the barrels of the rifles of the troops (our neighbors' kids) whom he'll try to send against us.
DT is permitted by Putin to YOWL at his master, to maintain credibility. What he will never, ever do is actually and palpably harm his master's interests. In this case, he knows that Europe needs to get through one more winter before lining up full energy independence. Hence DT safely does nothing.
September 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
DT is permitted by Putin to YOWL at his master, to maintain credibility. What he will never, ever do is actually and palpably harm his master's interests. In this case, he knows that Europe needs to get through one more winter before lining up full energy independence. Hence DT safely does nothing.
As I've been saying...
August 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
As I've been saying...
Ooooh! Can't wait till it's my turn!
July 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Ooooh! Can't wait till it's my turn!
My 106th donation, today. That's 13 2/8ths gallons, so not quite at this fellow's level! Latest science suggests that the donor actually gets benefits in 'younger blood,' beyond the greater good for some recipient, out there. Very glad they ended the age limit! Oh - got a t-shirt and donuts!
June 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
My 106th donation, today. That's 13 2/8ths gallons, so not quite at this fellow's level! Latest science suggests that the donor actually gets benefits in 'younger blood,' beyond the greater good for some recipient, out there. Very glad they ended the age limit! Oh - got a t-shirt and donuts!
The Gila River Indian Community, in south-central Arizona, plan an experimental effort to conserve water while generating electricity: floating solar. Between its canal canopies and the new project that would float photovoltaic panels on a reservoir.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0106202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0106202...
June 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The Gila River Indian Community, in south-central Arizona, plan an experimental effort to conserve water while generating electricity: floating solar. Between its canal canopies and the new project that would float photovoltaic panels on a reservoir.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0106202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0106202...
I’ve dissected this nasty, ingrate “endarkenment” fetish. Now the New Yorker and NY Times have noticed a jibbering savanarola-to-inheritance-brats, with whom I've had run-ins for well over a decade and a half.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Want deeper?
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/neor...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Want deeper?
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/neor...
June 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’ve dissected this nasty, ingrate “endarkenment” fetish. Now the New Yorker and NY Times have noticed a jibbering savanarola-to-inheritance-brats, with whom I've had run-ins for well over a decade and a half.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Want deeper?
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/neor...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Want deeper?
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/neor...
For a decade I have demanded comparisons of economic and other outcomes - on almost every statistic of health. The spans of Democratic administration ALWAYS have had vastly better outcomes than Republican ones. By almost ANY metric.... Including debt & deficits, science and state-by-state turpitudes
May 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
For a decade I have demanded comparisons of economic and other outcomes - on almost every statistic of health. The spans of Democratic administration ALWAYS have had vastly better outcomes than Republican ones. By almost ANY metric.... Including debt & deficits, science and state-by-state turpitudes
The Rome/Athens metaphor is cute and makes a point... till you know something. Like that Athenian democracy - which I admire as the very first beacon of Periclean light across the darkness - also fell into a spasm of aggressively populist imperial ambition that led to its downfall.
As for Trump...
As for Trump...
May 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Rome/Athens metaphor is cute and makes a point... till you know something. Like that Athenian democracy - which I admire as the very first beacon of Periclean light across the darkness - also fell into a spasm of aggressively populist imperial ambition that led to its downfall.
As for Trump...
As for Trump...
The gorgeous collector's hardcover of DUNE, by Earthling Publications, features my - well - perspicacious introduction.
www.earthlingpub.com/fh_dune.html
www.earthlingpub.com/fh_dune.html
May 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The gorgeous collector's hardcover of DUNE, by Earthling Publications, features my - well - perspicacious introduction.
www.earthlingpub.com/fh_dune.html
www.earthlingpub.com/fh_dune.html
May 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There is no accounting or explanation for today's "two" other than we're in a simulation and someone is messing with me. And hence, continuing to play feels like cheating. But then, we are ALL in a ridiculous scenario where a syphalitic 140 year old Donald Trump dropped quarters into a holodeck.
May 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There is no accounting or explanation for today's "two" other than we're in a simulation and someone is messing with me. And hence, continuing to play feels like cheating. But then, we are ALL in a ridiculous scenario where a syphalitic 140 year old Donald Trump dropped quarters into a holodeck.
For 80 years the Marshallian tradition promoted real scholar-warrior leaders. The most mature, constitutionally-loyal outcome-oriented humans I've met. THE vital clade blocking Project 2025/KGB monsters is not the DemParty. It's the US Military Officer Corps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OP...
May 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
For 80 years the Marshallian tradition promoted real scholar-warrior leaders. The most mature, constitutionally-loyal outcome-oriented humans I've met. THE vital clade blocking Project 2025/KGB monsters is not the DemParty. It's the US Military Officer Corps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OP...
Not just the economy, but every aspect of human creativity in arts and sciences... and the best election laws in the nation. And at absolutely every level - except cost of living and crowding - utterly opposite to every meme that twits have yammered about California all my life.
May 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Not just the economy, but every aspect of human creativity in arts and sciences... and the best election laws in the nation. And at absolutely every level - except cost of living and crowding - utterly opposite to every meme that twits have yammered about California all my life.