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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

Robert A. Heinlein

Luna is an open penal colony and the regime is a harsh one. Not surprisingly, revolution against the hated authority is planned. But the key figures in the revolt are an unlikely crew: Manuel Garcia O'Kelly, an engaging jack of all trades, the beautiful Wyoming Knott - and Mike, a lonely computer wh...

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Behind the Bastards

It was considered a foundational text for the American libertarian movement, featuring a lunar colony rebelling against Earth's rule and exploring libertarian ideals, but also containing contradictory elements.

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Heinlein's own apparent anti-government ethos is channeled through the elderly Peruvian born professor Prof. Bernardo de la Paz.

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It was considered a foundational text for the American libertarian movement, featuring a lunar colony rebelling against Earth's rule and exploring libertarian ideals, but also containing contradictory elements.

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Heinlein's own apparent anti-government ethos is channeled through the elderly Peruvian born professor Prof. Bernardo de la Paz.

Prof's cheap comrades in arms are an Amazonian blonde rabble rouser, Wyoming knot, and a one armed computer technician, the narrator hero, Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis.

The ragtag trio spearheads a revolutionary movement to make this ramshackle outpost for the marginalized into a self-governing nation free of the repressive rule of earth.

Episode: Part One: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertaria...

It was described as a foundational text for American libertarianism, depicting a lunar colony rebelling against Earth's government to achieve independence, with elements of libertarian and monarchist ideals.

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Heinlein's own apparent anti-government ethos is channeled through the elderly Peruvian born professor Prof. Bernardo de la Paz.

Prof's cheap comrades in arms are an Amazonian blonde rabble rouser, Wyoming knot, and a one armed computer technician, the narrator hero, Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis.

The ragtag trio spearheads a revolutionary movement to make this ramshackle outpost for the marginalized into a self-governing nation free of the repressive rule of earth.

the Moonage the Hearst mistress is about like people who are part of, who are living in a colony that's being oppressed by a government rebelling in order to become independent and seasteading, which is heavily influenced by this book is about sailing to the ocean to just hide from the government and, and mine Bitcoin.

Episode: Part One: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertaria...

It was considered a foundational text for the American libertarian movement, where a lunar colony fights for freedom from Earth's rule, but also contains strange ideas on government and monarchy.

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Heinlein's own apparent anti-government ethos is channeled through the elderly Peruvian born professor Prof. Bernardo de la Paz.

Prof is one of among hundreds of outcasts, outlaws and outsiders inhabiting underground colonies on the moon, or as it's known in the late 21st century, Luna.

Prof's cheap comrades in arms are an Amazonian blonde rabble rouser, Wyoming knot, and a one armed computer technician, the narrator hero, Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis.

The ragtag trio spearheads a revolutionary movement to make this ramshackle outpost for the marginalized into a self-governing nation free of the repressive rule of earth.

it's a mix of Congress is dumb and like governments can't get anything done. And also monarchy would be cool.

StarTalk Radio

It was mentioned as a possible source of the word 'grok', a term used to describe understanding and coming to terms with a problem.

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I'm trying to remember the book in which it first appeared. It might have been The Moon is a House Mistress, but I forget the details.

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Episode: Climate Science! With NASA's Gavin Schmidt

It was mentioned as a possible source of the word 'grok', a term used to describe understanding and coming to terms with a problem.

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I'm trying to remember the book in which it first appeared. It might have been The Moon is a House Mistress, but I forget the details.

Timcast IRL

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein that was written in the 1960s. It features an AI leader of the rebel movement named Adam Selene.

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Matthew Waddle like Adam Saleen the AI leader of the rebel movement in Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress the book was written in the 60s

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein that was written in the 1960s. It features an AI leader of the rebel movement named Adam Selene.

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Matthew Waddle like Adam Saleen the AI leader of the rebel movement in Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress the book was written in the 60s

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

It was mentioned as a great book where the author discusses a Gauss gun or rail gun that launches humans to the moon, and it was briefly discussed in a past episode.

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Shout out to Ed who put us on to the book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress that I think maybe we've talked about before in the past Robert Heinlein, Heinlein? I can't remember how to say his name Heinlein...

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Episode: Listener Mail: Fake Towns, Foster Care and: What t...

It was mentioned as a great book where the author discusses a Gauss gun or rail gun that launches humans to the moon, and it was briefly discussed in a past episode.

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Shout out to Ed who put us on to the book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress that I think maybe we've talked about before in the past Robert Heinlein, Heinlein? I can't remember how to say his name Heinlein, yeah

Great book, in that he discusses essentially a gouse gun or a rail gun that launches humans to the moon

Totally forgot about it, thank you Ed for reminding us of that

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It was mentioned as a great book where a rail gun that launches humans to the moon was discussed, and it was a past topic of conversation on the show.

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Shout out to Ed who put us on to the book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress that I think maybe we've talked about before in the past Robert Heinlein, Heinlein? I can't remember how to say his name Heinlein, yeah

Great book, in that he discusses essentially a gouse gun or a rail gun that launches humans to the moon

Totally forgot about it, thank you Ed for reminding us of that

Episode: Listener Mail: Fake Towns, Foster Care and: What t...

It was mentioned as a great book where a railgun or gauss gun that launches humans to the moon was discussed.

"

Shout out to Ed who put us on to the book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress that I think maybe we've talked about before in the past Robert Heinlein, Heinlein? I can't remember how to say his name Heinlein, yeah

Great book, in that he discusses essentially a gouse gun or a rail gun that launches humans to the moon Totally forgot about it, thank you Ed for reminding us of that

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