• The 2020 Lunar Dust Workshop in Houston was highlighted; all presentations are downloadable at https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lunardust2020/pdf/lunardust2020_program.htm, with Phil Metzger scheduled to speak on “Dust Transport and Its Effect Due to Landing Spacecraft.”

• A Twitter debate was referenced in which Daniel Plante argued that producing steel on the Moon is impractical; participants countered that vacuum conditions actually simplify smelting, although rolling steel into sheets would still be difficult.

• Alternative lunar manufacturing strategies were proposed: extruding titanium or using laser sintering, both of which require far lighter and lower-power equipment than a conventional steel mill.

• Bryan Bishop pushed minor clarifications to the DIYHPlusWiki “genetic modifications” page, and Michael Folkson contributed formatting fixes to the transcript of the London Bitcoin Devs 2019 talk on the P2P Erlay protocol.

• The concept of “parahawking”—a hybrid sport combining paragliding with falconry—was introduced via a Wikipedia lookup, illustrating the channel’s eclectic curiosity about human-enhancement and human-animal teaming technologies.