#ESA's #RosalindFranklin will start digging holes in Mars some time after its 2028 launch, if everything goes according to the agency's newest plan. Which, by the way, depends on NASA providing space transportation from Earth to Mars for the #ExoMars Lander + Rosalind Franklin rover.

Its landing location in Oxia Planum is about 3000km from the Underhill and 1330km from DaVinci, both cities in #KSR's #MarsTrilogy #SciFi universe (see map).

ESA has a series of

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#Europe #solarocks #space

Making Democracy Interesting: Tips from TV, Podcasts, Science Fiction, and Online Creators (Including #KimStanleyRobinson )

A webinar hosted by the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation
Harvard Kennedy School

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap55JXHJHQ4

#Harvard #democracy #KSR #USpol

Bei einer großen Reform des Sozialstaats bekommt man ja erst einmal Angst. "Die größte Reform seit der Agenda 2010," sorgt auch nicht gerade für mehr Vertrauen. Aber das, was Bärbel Bas da heute vorgestellt hat, scheint erst einmal sinnvoll zu sein.

https://www.tagesschau.de/video/video-1549206.html

#Sozialstaat #KSR #SPD #BärbelBas

Crooning invective, and after a spa day too.

#KSR #ttrpg #Sweden

https://farhavens.blogspot.com/2025/12/crooning-invective.html

FWIW
Kim Stanley Robinson, of #MarsTrilogy fame, is another well known democratic socialist.

#ZohranMamdani #KSR

"So it's democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends,"

#KSR #RedMars