- Boycott of free peer-review for corporate journals was promoted via a Times Higher Education article, highlighting tensions in open-science advocacy.  
- Discussion of “The Millennial Project” and its offshoots framed seasteading and lunar settlement as competing visions, with critiques that both demand prohibitive capital.  
- Debate over lunar vs. asteroid-belt colonization strategies: “hive-replication” of robotic seed factories was pitched against simply sending humans with MRE caches and in-situ resource gear.  
- Practical near-term experiments proposed: building lunar-regolith simulant sandboxes, DIY liquid-nitrogen generators (link to Makezine project), and closed-loop hydroponic life-support prototypes on Earth.  
- Cost and logistics of argon atmospheres, reverse-osmosis desalination membranes, and long-duration MRE stockpiles were weighed for both desert testbeds and off-world outposts.