- Discussion of a potential startup focused on web-based future-scenario prediction software, with skepticism expressed about its commercial viability and the team’s apparent ignorance of relevant technical architectures.

- Reference to Christopher Kelty’s book “Two Bits” (twobits.net) and its concept of “recursive publics,” explicitly linked to the SKDB (Structured Knowledge Design Base) project as a real-world instantiation of Kelty’s ideas.

- Circulation of John McCarthy’s essay “The Future of Objectivity” (http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/objectivity.html) as a touchstone for debates on computational ethics and objective morality.

- Critique of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s perceived “cult-like aura” and the SL4 mailing list’s moderation policies, framed as a governance problem for the broader transhumanist community.

- Exploration of extreme launch-assist concepts: Project Orion-style nuclear pulse propulsion, fusion-bomb planet cracking, and tractor-beam lunar collisions, all dismissed as impractical or wasteful compared to more conventional nuclear-thermal or chemical rockets.

- Mention of Iran’s dual nuclear and space programs as a possible unconventional route to nuclear-thermal propulsion development, alongside the mysterious death of Iranian missile engineer Ali Mahmudi Mimand.

- Update to the open-source transhumanism definition page (http://heybryan.org/transhumanism_def.html) and promotion of Kelty’s book PDF (http://twobits.net/pub/Kelty-TwoBits.pdf) within the P2P Foundation network.