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Spider on the Web 93 - Another Free Lunch
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Another Free Lunch © 2013 by Spider Robinson Reading: Chapters 3 & 4, THE FREE LUNCH by Spider Robinson. Music: Tim Minchin, The Creber Family, Michelle Creber, Gina Sposto, Doug Cox, Marcus Eaton with James Raymond, Dori Rubbicco Legge.
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Spider on the Web 92 - A Free Lunch
9/15/2012 | Download File (82.76 MB) - right click to download
A Free Lunch © 2012 by Spider Robinson Reading: "The Littlest Dragon" by Seymour Hamilton; Chapters 1 & 2, THE FREE LUNCH by Spider Robinson. Music: Mose Scarlett; Folk Uke; John Boutte; Gale Mead; Scarlett, Washington & Whiteley.
Spider on the Web 91 - The Voyage South play >
Spider on the Web 91 - The Voyage South
5/1/2012 | Download File (71.95 MB) - right click to download
The Voyage South © 2012 by Spider Robinson Reading: Prologue of Book I of the Astreya Trilogy, THE VOYAGE SOUTH, by Seymour Hamilton. Music: Kathleen Rubbicco, Strung, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Ella Fitzgerald with the Ray Brown Quintet, Tony Dominelli, and Lord Buckley.
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Spider on the Web 90 - It's Time Now...
10/26/2011 | Download File (69.99 MB) - right click to download
It's Time Now... © 2011 by Spider Robinson Reading: "Chronic Offender." Music: The Lovin' Spoonful, Spider singing Tim Minchin, Ann Earthling & The Planets, Nils Landgren & Michael Wollny, Joshua Penman and Akara, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Mose Scarlett.
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Spider on the Web 1 - Thrillin' at the MacMillan #1
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Thrillin' at the MacMillan #1: Space Tourism © 2007 by Spider Robinson I’ve spent several decades rebutting silly complaints about “money wasted in space.” Dollars have been spent getting there—but every single buck stopped here, on the ground, in the pocket of some smart person. Furthermore, every dollar NASA spent earned thirteen dollars back. Look what it got them: a manned space program that barely exists and has little future.
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Spider on the Web 3 - Thrillin' at the MacMillan #2
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Thrillin' at the MacMillan #2: Sustaining the Planet © 2007 by Spider Robinson Sustaining the planet means widely different things to all of us—so let’s try and define our aim. The phrase surely isn’t meant literally. Terra was sustaining herself just fine for millions of years before the first oxygen-producing lifeforms infested her and wrecked her nice methane ecosystem, dooming entire phyla to extinction. Mother Gaia’s not alarmed by “global warming”: she’s survived vastly greater environmental changes more than once, and will again.
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Spider on the Web 5 - Thrillin' at the MacMillan #3
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Thrillin' at the MacMillan #3: Spirituality of Space © 2007 by Spider Robinson The spiritual impulse can be a dangerous thing when it goes public. Ask anyone who was in New York five years ago, or anyone still alive in Baghdad today...It’s hard to talk about spirituality without talking about religion, and most of the world’s religions are, whether they admit it or not, mutually exclusive. That’s the only way I can explain the odd fact that spirituality is one of the least-known attractions of space travel.
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Spider on the Web 7 - Thrillin' at the MacMillan #4
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Thrillin' at the MacMillan #4: Militarization of Space © 2007 by Spider Robinson To my surprise, not even the wonderful Wizard Of Google can pin down exactly when the militarization of space became unstoppable. In the first place, China’s finally sussed out the secret to the Information Age: smother it with so much contradictory information nobody can say for sure just what you said, or when...much less why. And they’ve always known what to do about military information: lie.
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Spider on the Web 9 - Thrillin' at the MacMillan #5
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Thrillin' at the MacMillan #5: Space Art © 2007 by Spider Robinson It’s probably apocryphal—the best ones usually are—but one of my favorite quotations is what Mahatma Ghandi is supposed to have responded when asked what he thought of Western Civilization. They say he replied gently, “That would be very nice.” A lot of people will give you some variant of that same response if you ask them about space art. “Great idea. Somebody should try that.” “What space art?” I draw blanks with the idea all the time at social gatherings. Nobody seems to realize there is any.
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Spider on the Web 11 - Thrillin' at the MacMillan #6
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Thrillin' at the MacMillan #6: Space Law © 2007 by Spider Robinson Ask Elliot Ness. The power of a law—its meaning—depends on who’s committed to enforcing it, and how far they’re prepared to go. In David Milch’s HBO series Deadwood, nobody seems prepared to enforce much of anything, and perhaps you’ve seen the dire consequences of such anarchy: the rights of prostitutes were not respected, men were sometimes cheated, wealth and power and information lay in the hands of a few, undertaking was handled by voracious swine, and foul language was heard in public. Nothing like the shining civilization of laws we enjoy today.
