Escheresque Forest on the Moon during our lunar settlement conference.

4 responses to “Escheresque Forest on the Moon during our lunar settlement conference.”

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   jurvetson

   Aug 25, 2014 at 5:11 am

   Final result, Full Size

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   laughtonb

   Aug 25, 2014 at 7:09 pm

   The painting really reminds me of the Chesley Bonestell illustrations in Collier’s magazine when I was a kid. Really fired my imagination for space travel! This one does, too.

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   jurvetson

   Aug 26, 2014 at 11:22 pm

   Yeah, he is fantastic. He decorates the office, and all of the satellites: Oh, and a nice article just came out on his employer, in NY Magazine:

   A Tech Start-Up Just Restored My Faith in Humanity

   The email inbox of a tech writer is a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade of garbage — thousands of pitches for ill-conceived, duplicative, morally bankrupt, or otherwise useless companies that, 19 times out of 20, have no larger bearing on the world.

   And then, once in a long while, you come across something that reminds you that, yes, Silicon Valley is still doing some very worthwhile things.
   That happened to me yesterday, with a start-up called Planet Labs.

   … it was refreshing to see, in the course of an hour-long visit with a little satellite company, that the higher, better ambitions of Silicon Valley are still alive and well. Even if they’re sometimes hard to find.

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   jurvetson

   Apr 26, 2021 at 6:31 pm

   and the following year at Backing the Futureand at Planet HQ

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