Réal Laplaine's Blog, page 5
December 19, 2023
Do they win - or do we?
In 2020, when the pandemic caused a global meltdown, the world came together and found a cure to Covid in less than one year.
Now, there is another virus called "dictators" - who are threatening use of weapons of mass destruction against us and not only destroy democracy, but threaten our very existence. Why isn't the world banding together to remove that virus? Why is the massive military complex designed to protect freedom and democracy, simply not removing the threat?
It doesn't take more war, it takes intelligence and a strategic approach to simply depowering those threatening our world.
We knew Covid, if not stopped, could result in a global debacle. We stopped it.
Isn't it time we demanded they act before it's too late to do anything about it?
October 6, 2023
Is anyone beyond second chances in life?
I lived in Los Angeles for 25 years, a city which has the 3rd largest GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of any city in the world; GDP measuring the economic health and productivity; and yet, except in the wealthier neighborhoods, homeless people could be seen on the streets. In fact, roughly 70,000 people are registered as homeless in Los Angeles, and over half a million in the United States overall - and of course, those figures are dubious since it’s not likely that homeless people, who pay no taxes, are registered - so the figure is probably MUCH higher.
I saw homeless people every day for 25 years, where I worked in Hollywood, just blocks from Hollywood’s busiest tourist spots. It was not only tragic, it was ironic that so many people were visiting the city and skirting its dark corridors; and it never failed to stir a disturbing resonance inside me, that here, in one of, if not the wealthiest nations in the world, people were living on the streets.
I talked to them, gave them food, money - to not do so would have required turning off my empathy and become callous about their plight. I simply couldn’t do it.
I remember reading an article in a newspaper at the time, about a man living on the streets of Los Angeles, who was a drug addict, and who previously was a successful programmer in the IT arena. His drug problem started before he hit the streets, but it quickly ramped up to the point where it was destroying him, so he stepped down from his career, and before doing so, his boss, who knew about his issue, told him that if ever he came to grips with his problem, he was welcome back to the company. The man ended up on the streets for years, until one day, his sister showed up and informed him that their mother had passed away and that he had not been around to see her in her final days nor had he come to the funeral. That was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back for him. He forced himself off the drugs, got back on his feet, and amazingly, approached the same man at the same company where he had worked years before and was given a second chance at life - and he took it.
It’s a true story and it reminded me of what I felt deep inside when I looked into the faces of men, women and even teenagers living on the streets around me - that no one is beyond a second chance in life.
Later, I moved to Buffalo, New York, where, once again, I witnessed the homeless, and this time, I wrote a book about it, The Buffalo Kid, a story inspired by the homeless people I saw and met, a story that gushed out of me like a flood of words, because I wanted to expose their plight by telling a story through the eyes of one man, once a successful career-man, a family man, who ended up destitute and homeless, and after thirty years, got a second chance. Naturally, the book was extremely popular and loved because it was a story that everyone could relate to - because those homeless people, they were mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, someone’s children.
Moreover, I watched people, every day, walk by homeless people as if they didn’t exist, as if they were mere objects, garbage, or repulsive - and that I found to be more calloused and more abhorrent than anything - that people would treat others in that manner. The Buffalo Kid was, and remains, my way of spotlighting the issue of poverty and to remind us all that they are humans too and they are not beyond hope.
And by the way, quite by chance, I was introduced to man by the name of Radiator Don, who lived off the grid in Paso Robles, California (see image below) and who further inspired this story. He passed away some years ago, but his legacy lives on because it is his image that we chose for the cover of The Buffalo Kid.
Read more about Radiator Don HERE .
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September 19, 2023
It's the children that suffer...
An excerpt from my book, Twilight Visitor, illustrates the effects of war upon the innocent.
It was a beautiful sunny morning with fleecy clouds floating on the air currents high above.
The sun was an incandescent ball of yellow, hanging torpidly in the otherwise deep blue sky.
Sitting idly under a vagrant tree, six-year-old, Vahid, and his three-year-old sister, Sahar, were quietly passing the time. Around them stretched the semi-arid and vacant land which they called home.
Vahid glanced up at their house, a one-level stone and clay structure which shimmered in the distance as the morning sun heated up the desert sands, causing the air to ripple and undulate.
They lived on the tip of the Great Salt Desert, the Dasht-e Kavr. Their small settlement was located twenty kilometers southwest of Javadubad, a remote outpost from which his father commuted every day, to his place of work - an oil refinery in the middle of nowhere.
Vahid’s eyes panned over the expanse of arid land to the south, listening as he did to the moaning shrill of the wind which effused them. His senses were tuned to the nuances of his world – having grown up on the edge of the desert itself. The subtle sounds of creatures were as sensible to him as the beating of his own heart. A rabbit scurrying away, its legs thudding into the dirt; the pronounced cry of a hawk or the howl of a wild dog, all of them were part of his very nature and he knew them all.
It was the wind which he loved most – for it spoke to him in a myriad of voices. There was the angry wind, the torrent of truculent air which charged across the vast domain, threatening, powerful and yet beautiful. Then there was the soft musing of a calm and gentle zephyr which caressed the land, like the soothing touch of his mother’s hand. The wind was more than wind to him, it was nature’s music, sometimes a low lamenting wail which seemed sad and aching; other times it came as a high-pitched whistle which conveyed challenge and threat and stirred the adrenaline within him.
He loved the desert, and he loved the land despite his relative desolation, and someday, he would stand proudly alongside his father and help to milk the Earth of the black crude which it abundantly provided.
Vahid’s mother had admonished him to watch over his younger sister and to never let her wander off alone. The land was large and empty, and there were predators here and there. Even as he sat tapering the end of his newfound stick with his small pen knife, hoping to mold it into a spear or a weapon of sorts, Vahid maintained a watchful eye over his sister who played nearby.
The endless silence, except that of the occasional warm gust, or the squawk of a bird passing high above, was subtly broken by a noise he had not known before now.
His ears were suddenly alert. He listened while his sister continued to mold sand into indistinct heaps. She looked up at him with large brown eyes and a slight upward curve of her lips and then resumed her play.
The discordant sound came again, only this time there was a slight tremor which shook the ground.
Vahid stood and walked from under the tree, his eyes searching the nearby hills and the distant desert sands, and again it came, this time like an ominous and muted roar, more distinct and more disturbingly invasive.
As he scanned the horizon his eyes fell upon a sight which shocked him, as strange machines and a wave of men suddenly crested a distant hill and charged downward in the very direction where he stood.
Behind him, he heard a scream. He turned to see his mother waving frantically at him. Bearing down on the very spot where she stood was yet another wave of machines and men coming from the other direction.
Suddenly the terrifying thunder was upon them.
The explosions erupted with such a shock wave that Vahid was thrown to the ground.
Batteries of shells and bullets screamed above him, cascading into the ranks of men and machines in both directions - with a violence which blistered his ears.
Frantically, he crawled, then got to his feet and ran back to his sister, her small form standing erect as she stared wide-eyed in abject terror at the raging battle.
Vahid dove for her, knocking her to the ground just as a volley of high caliber slugs scorched the air where she had just stood.
The rumble and roar of cannons, and the overwhelming concussion of endless rounds of shells echoed and filled the otherwise silent desert, turning a once calm and peaceful land into a pure and living hell.
When the battle between the Persian forces from the north, and the approaching Chinese from the south, had halted, the explosive thunder could still be heard as it rumbled down the corridors of that empty land.
Tanks lay smoldering, as did other artillery, and all about, in the wake of that short encounter, lay the decimation of broken bodies.
The Chinese commander stepped from his armored vehicle and quickly assessed the carnage. The small Iranian force had been quickly dispatched, but he knew that more would soon follow.
As he called for reinforcements, his eyes fell upon the two small bodies, clustered together under a nearby tree; their forms entwined in a desperate attempt to survive the fury which had struck their home; a young boy and his sister lay dead.
The Commander sighed. It was not his proudest moment. But as always, his only defense against the humanity which screamed at him from within - was that the innocent were always the unfortunate victims of any war.
Réal Laplaine
Author of Break Out Books
August 29, 2023
Who should take on the biggest criminals in the world?
If the Law of Attraction is accurate, that is, that like attracts to like, this image of Vladimir Putin (Russia) and Kim Jong-un (North Korea) says plenty.
Why would a Canadian crime fighter go after these two dictators?
Isn't that a bit above his pay-grade?
Isn't that the domain of governments and the military establishment?
Maybe not - maybe it's time for another approach considering that no government or military establishment in the world, to date, have stopped either of these dictators?
Let's review what constitutes a criminal?
Normally we think of them as being murderers, thieves, con-men, those engaged in illicit financial agendas, those engaged in human trafficking, on and on. If you take these two men alone, they are guilty of nearly every criminal category.
Both these men are responsible for the enslavement of people. Jong-un has virtually enslaved over 25,000,000 people, keeping them in a state of relative poverty and forced to do slave labor to enrichen his bank accounts and build a military.
Vladimir Putin not only launched a war against Ukraine, he has authored the systematic destruction of entire cities, killing countless thousands of people. He has also regressed Russia back towards its former state as the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) by closing its borders, enforcing strict media control, using terror-tactics and a police-state-operation to keep the populace in line and marching to the beat of his drum.
Both men have accrued MASSIVE personal accounts, money they extorted from others, stole or simply commandeered. Putin is reported to have over 200 billion dollars stashed away.
Putin has forced young Russians to go to war against Ukraine under threat. Kim Jong-un, as covered above, uses the populace like slaves, bleeding them for every nickel he can get. He also engages a program, The Dollar Men, where North Korean men are forced to go overseas and work, largely in construction, and send 99% of their earnings back to Jong-un's accounts under threat that if they do not do so, the consequences to their families in North Korea will be dire.
And of course, last but not the least - both possess a nuclear arsenal which they have threatened to use against the world - making them not only criminal, but quite insane.
Open a page of any criminal law book, point your finger, and you will find relevance to these two sociopaths.
Just because allies to Ukraine are sending shiploads of weaponry to help them fight the Russian invasion, a proxy war at this stage, does not mean it is the most effective way of stopping Putin, and ultimately, Kim Jong-un before he launches his military toward South Korea, which he intends to do as certain as the sun rises.
Call it fiction, if you will, but I prefer speculative fiction - the idea that it could be true or it could actually happen, when the head of Canada's Anti Terrorism Unit, finds himself and his team on an irrevocable path, a chance to squeeze through the cracks of the Kremlin itself and if they don't get killed along the way, penetrate Putin's security defenses and take him alive, to stand trial at The Hague, the International Criminal Courts, as a war criminal.
Think it's impossible?
If we can send space probes that reach a spec of sand, billions of miles away, certainly we can send a team to take Putin, and even Kim Jong-un, without all the war, the death, the cost.
The concept defies those who benefit from the conflict, because make no mistake about it, the private military establishment is making billions of dollars fueling the Ukraine war with weapons and they are not interested in a small handful of people ending it all.
Decide for yourself in The 9th Divinity - the 4th novel in the Keeno Crime Thrillers.
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August 17, 2023
Are we playing dice with our future?
It seems, at least history is our witness, that getting good leaders, that is, in nations with a democratic process (not dictatorial regimes), is a flip of the coin, especially in nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere, where a lot of money and strong backers in the billionaire club, strongly influence who actually makes it to the Oval Office or the Prime Minister's seat.
Hasn't history taught us an important lesson, that our system for selection or election of leaders is faulty?
To emphasize the point, consider this.
Would you permit someone who claimed to be a doctor, despite being a billionaire, or successful entrepreneur, or whatever, to operate on you? Would you put your life in their hands just because they claimed to be qualified to do the job without insisting on seeing their credentials?
Would you step into a plane being piloted by someone who claimed to be qualified to fly it, but who was not actually licensed to do so?
Would you consider a building safe to live in if it was built by someone who held no permits or qualifications to do so?
The question could be posed a hundred different ways - but in the end, it speaks to this; why is there no bottom line for political leaders? Anyone can run for a Presidency in a democracy, without having to meet any bottom line in terms of requirements, and yet, no one can fly commercial aircraft, or perform medical services on people, or build bridges, or whatever, without having been schooled, tested and certified to do so - and yet, someone can become the President of a nation without meeting any basic criteria besides possibly the rhetorical skills necessary to sway crowds, and the charisma necessary to get financial backers from the private sector.
Doesn't it make sense that the man or woman running for office, with the power to do great good or great destruction, should have to pass a basic criteria, just like doctors, lawyers, engineers, pilots and others? It doesn't violate democratic principles or capitalistic ideology to require that professionals in any field are required to do so, so why should it be any different for leaders? Especially considering the fact that a President can start wars, maybe even push a button that ends all wars - isn't that reason enough to ensure that candidates for such positions of power are not only demonstrably sane and competent, but are not corrupt or corruptible based on their past?
It's not difficult to set the bar for political candidates - any more than it is to set standards of education and performance for other professions. It's difficult to imagine, considering the history of terrible and destructive leaders, not only in regimes, but in democracies too, that constitutionally speaking, actions have not been taken to protect those very democracies by setting a bottom line for anyone endeavoring to take the helm of the ship.
This "cast-the-dice" approach that has been in vogue - opens the door to very nefarious types, and in the long run, it hurts the people and it strikes at the heart of democracy and freedom.
Some suggested criteria, but certainly not limited to these, could be:
A thorough background check for criminality and criminal associations. A standard of ethical behavior that must reveal someone who cannot be compromised, because as we all know, political power is easily corrupted in the wrong hands. A demonstrable track-record of having done constructive work for the community or nation, not based on money or donations, but actual and significant hands-on contributions to making a better society for people. Demonstrable ability to lead in a positive manner - meaning, inspiring leadership. An electoral platform of how they will improve the nation, state or city, based on facts, what they CAN deliver and not sugar coated fluff or outright hyperbole designed to leverage the emotions of the electorate. The ability to communicate, interact and negotiate with others as would be expected of a diplomat or politic servant. Proof that they can campaign on their own ticket for the candidacy without being bought off with donations from vested interests and wealthy backers in the private sector. In other words, can they run a platform without being bought off.These are not difficult criteria to meet for those who want to become a leader for the RIGHT reasons - but these criteria would certainly help to sift out those running for office for the wrong reasons and help ensure that the people elected to power have a positive influence on the nation and are working FOR THE PEOPLE and not for the party, or worse, the private sector.
It's time to reform the system to bring about better leaders. We cannot afford in our modern times, more bad leaders, especially with regimes such as Russia, China, North Korea and other nations where the populace is largely shackled by dictatorial processes which prohibit democratic process in this regard.
Réal Laplaine
Author Break Out Books
Good leader - bad leader - is it just luck?
It seems, at least history is our witness, that getting good leaders, that is, in nations with a democratic process (not dictatorial regimes), is a flip of the coin, especially in nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere, where a lot of money and strong backers in the billionaire club, strongly influence who actually makes it to the Oval Office or the Prime Minister's seat.
Hasn't history taught us an important lesson, that our system for selection or election of leaders is faulty?
To emphasize the point, consider this.
Would you permit someone who claimed to be a doctor, despite being a billionaire, or successful entrepreneur, or whatever, to operate on you? Would you put your life in their hands just because they claimed to be qualified to do the job without insisting on seeing their credentials?
Would you step into a plane being piloted by someone who claimed to be qualified to fly it, but who was not actually licensed to do so?
Would you consider a building safe to live in if it was built by someone who held no permits or qualifications to do so?
The question could be posed a hundred different ways - but in the end, it speaks to this; why is there no bottom line for political leaders? Anyone can run for a Presidency in a democracy, without having to meet any bottom line in terms of requirements, and yet, no one can fly commercial aircraft, or perform medical services on people, or build bridges, or whatever, without having been schooled, tested and certified to do so - and yet, someone can become the President of a nation without meeting any basic criteria besides possibly the rhetorical skills necessary to sway crowds, and the charisma necessary to get financial backers from the private sector.
Doesn't it make sense that the man or woman running for office, with the power to do great good or great destruction, should have to pass a basic criteria, just like doctors, lawyers, engineers, pilots and others? It doesn't violate democratic principles or capitalistic ideology to require that professionals in any field are required to do so, so why should it be any different for leaders? Especially considering the fact that a President can start wars, maybe even push a button that ends all wars - isn't that reason enough to ensure that candidates for such positions of power are not only demonstrably sane and competent, but are not corrupt or corruptible based on their past?
It's not difficult to set the bar for political candidates - any more than it is to set standards of education and performance for other professions. It's difficult to imagine, considering the history of terrible and destructive leaders, not only in regimes, but in democracies too, that constitutionally speaking, actions have not been taken to protect those very democracies by setting a bottom line for anyone endeavoring to take the helm of the ship.
This "cast-the-dice" approach that has been in vogue - opens the door to very nefarious types, and in the long run, it hurts the people and it strikes at the heart of democracy and freedom.
What that bottom line should be, should at the very least include:
A thorough background check for criminality and criminal associations. A standard of ethical behavior that must reveal someone who cannot be compromised, because as we all know, political power is easily corrupted in the wrong hands. A demonstrable track-record of having done constructive work for the community or nation, not based on money or donations, but actual and significant hands-on contributions to making a better society for people. Demonstrable ability to lead in a positive manner - meaning, inspiring leadership. An electoral platform based on creditable and positive blocks of how they will improve the country through their leadership. Actual rhetorical skills that does not include mud-slinging and defamation of other candidates. The ability to run one's own ticket for the candidacy without being bought off with donations from vested interests in the private sector.These are not difficult criteria to meet for those who want to become a leader for the RIGHT reasons - but these criteria would certainly help to sift out those running for office for the wrong reasons and help ensure that the people elected to power have a positive influence on the nation and are working FOR THE PEOPLE and not for the party, or worse, the private sector.
It's time to reform the system to bring about better leaders. We cannot afford in our modern times, more bad leaders, especially with regimes such as Russia, China, North Korea and other nations where the populace is largely shackled by dictatorial processes which prohibit democratic process in this regard.
Réal Laplaine
Author Break Out Books
July 27, 2023
The Global Rift of 2026
Given the current dynamics in our contemporary geopolitical arena, with Russia segregated from the West due to its tyrannical aggression against Ukraine, and China and several other nations standing by Russia, we see new global dynamics forming, all of which were predicted in my book Earth Escape.
With current trends, by 2026, three major geopolitical camps will be evident, whether by these names or not, the ripples indicate;
The Triumvirate a political alliance of Russia, China, Chad, North Korea, Turkey, Syria and several other African nations, including Venezuela.
The Alliance, a political collaboration formed of the United States, Canada, much of Central and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the EU, Taiwan, Japan and other South Pacific nations.
The Republic of Islam, a league of Islamic-faith-based nations, who, without compromising their borders, start to unify as a singular entity of their own - who repel Western intervention and anything and anyone which compromises their faith.
While many will claim that the world could not possibly come to this juncture, the dynamics are already in play, and Earth Escape, an epic story to reach an exoplanet before nuclear war destroys us all, clearly shows, as far back as 2016 when it was published, that the global dynamics and trends are indeed heading in that very direction.
We can change it, but so far, we have not.
A quote from the intro to Earth Escape sums it up:
"Three global forces were now racing against inevitable time; the ticking-bomb of tensions between geopolitical powers, Mother Nature (global warming), and a new frontier, space exploration which suddenly opened up new vistas, including the opportunity to find a new home for mankind. The question is - which one wins?"
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July 26, 2023
What is the value of books?
Since the advent of eBooks (ePub, Kindle, etc.) and independent publishing platforms, book promoters and major book sellers have encouraged and/or enabled authors to either sell their books for next to nothing ($00.99) or give them away for free based on the premise that by doing so they would gain more readership.
Statistically speaking, it isn't a workable platform for most authors, and certainly not fair exchange when you consider that the average author spends six months to a year, or more, writing a book. No other profession in the world gives away their hard-won work for the cost of a cheap hamburger or for free.
I'm not judging authors who give away free books or offer them for $00.99 - I am simply advocating that authors deserve a lot better for their hard work and inspiration.
My books are reasonably priced at the minimum threshold I consider acceptable, moreover, for the value I provide my readers.
- Réal Laplaine Author of Existential Fiction at ,www.reallaplaine.com
July 12, 2023
Can Ai stop dictators and war?
Ai or Artificial Intelligence, which essentially amounts to machines/computers demonstrating their own intelligence without human involvement, has reached a level in contemporary society where Ai can drive cars, fly planes, operate machinery and even execute complex life-saving surgeries.
Current advances in Ai have also opened the door to an entirely different form of warfare, where drones not only provide reconnaissance, but effective attacks too.
The question, which no doubt, developers and investors in Ai tech have posed, or played with, is just how far can Ai be used, ethically and legally.
When it comes to dictators, such as Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-un (North Korea), men who use human beings as cannon fodder, but who ultimately have the ability and compulsion to use their nuclear arsenal against the world, should Ai be engaged to stop them well before the fact of war?
How does one measure the level of madness of men who happily send thousands of people to die in senseless wars, fighting and killing for no other reason than to aggrandize their own power? Do we trust that they have sufficient moral compass to draw the line when it comes to using nuclear weapons? It’s hardly reasonable to assume that Vladimir Putin, pressed to the wall and losing his battle in Ukraine, will not resort to using his nuclear arsenal as his final ace card? He has over 7,000 nuclear weapons at his disposal, more than any nation in the world – and cornered by the international community, why wouldn’t he?
Madmen, like him and Kim Jong-un, dictators who are so narcissistic and ego-driven, that the deaths of thousands, or millions, means nothing compared to their own self-centered survival.
Naturally, war is an industry today, putting trillions of dollars into the pockets of private military contractors, investors, financial institutions and even politicians who benefit from its continuance – but that is a discussion for another time.
I propose that the likes of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, can be effectively nullified using Ai. Imagine this scenario: an advanced computer algorithm that can penetrate any digital security walls, capable of neutralizing nuclear launch sites, penetrating the digital vaults where Putin and Kim Jong-un have placed the billions they have stashed away, and moreover, emptying the military accounts so that the machinery of war in Russia and North Korea are brought to stop?
What if that Ai, working in tandem with a crime-fighting team, opened a corridor to get to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, an opportunity to bring two of the world’s most nefarious criminals to the stand trial in The Hague as war criminals?
Is it possible that an Ai could accomplish the above without the necessity of sending thousands of young men and women to die in brutal war, or worse, putting the human race on notice if the nukes start flying?
The 9th Divinity, the 4th book in the Keeno Crime Thriller series, while an exciting and thrilling read, poses to you, the reader, and the world at large, that maybe the days of conventional warfare are over, and with Ai, we have the means of bringing dictators, such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, to their knees before they can bring about catastrophe and without the need of wars. It’s a contentious proposition, one which old-school military boys and those invested in the industry of war will vehemently oppose, because if a single Ai can accomplish the above without all the machinery of war, who profits from that?
“Terrifyingly well written and so realistic! From a master of suspense, an activist for human rights and against nuclear weapons, comes a disturbingly believable story of people who are ready to risk their lives—and AI is of a great help for it—to save the humankind from governing sociopaths and criminals. Though fiction, it is not.” – Marina Osipova, author
Réal Laplaine
Author
June 13, 2023
What if aliens rejected us?
While Hollywood and conventional mediocrity tend to depict "aliens" from other worlds as the "bad guys" - what if it was the reverse?
What if alien visitations to our world (of which there are countless documentations of such which even the U.S. military establishment cannot conceal) resulted in them returning to their home worlds and declaring, "Nope, no way, we don't want to get near those guys?"
In my book Earth Escape, a space odyssey where captain Jim Tale and his crew of the Evolution, are sent on a 29-year mission to reach a nearby exo-planet and colonize it before Earth, now facing the likelihood of nuclear war, is on the precipice of an existential event, shockingly encounters the unexpected.
Did you ever consider that the "aliens" might not want humanity colonizing a nearby planet? That possibly they don't view us as good neighbors; with our constant wars, racism, greed and suicidal rise of weapons of mass destruction?
Earth Escape presents a different perspective - one that defies the usual depiction and a story that takes the reader to the very edge of the Universe in this high-speed space odyssey.
Herb Baker, formerly with NASA, had this to say in his foreword to the book:
"Have you ever wondered how our universe was created? Was it the hand of God – or was it the Big Bang? Or even a combination of the two? Or is there another explanation? If you are interested in debates on that subject, this is the book for you. And for space nuts like me, examining those questions in the context of the most daring space mission ever attempted from Earth makes this book’s adventure one that I wish did not have an end."
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