New Caledonia has enacted a sweeping 50-year ban on all commercial seabed mining across its entire 1.3 million km² maritime zone. The French Pacific territory, home to nearly one-third of the world's remaining pristine coral reefs, says it is prioritising environmental protection over economic extraction, allowing only non-invasive scientific research. RFI https://www.rfi.fr/en/environment/20250502-new-caledonia-bans-dangerous-seabed-mining-for-half-a-century?ref=fixthenews.com
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Research is eye-opening! This, from MIT Tech Review ought to be of general interest I thought.

“It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but…human biological materials are an essential commodity…
Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain….we may one day be able to create “spare” bodies, both human and nonhuman.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1113611/ethically-sourced-spare-human-bodies-could-revolutionize-medicine/

Crushing technofascism feels so goood!

https://kottke.org/25/05/wwii-vet-crushes-a-tesla-with-a-sherman-tank

#fascism #USpol #Musk #WWII #British

Space adventure and exploration should be for the benefit of all humankind, not the whimsy of a few.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has proposed nothing less than a new law of #nature, according to which the #complexity of entities in the #universe increases over time with an inexorability comparable to the second law of #thermodynamics — the law that dictates an inevitable rise in entropy, a measure of disorder.

If they’re right, complex and intelligent #life should be widespread.

#astrobiology #physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402/