Removed Comments So Far

I am being allowed to post comments again on a censored space forum. Many of my comments are, however, being removed. I will see them posted here if not there:


O’Neillian
Robert G. Oler
2 days ago
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It is much like the Trumpist delusion; they will never admit their chosen one has completely messed up this design. (Regarding Musk’s Starship)

O’Neillian
4 days ago
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“I am concerned that Musks Starship has to make substantial progress this year.”

I am concerned that it will continue to be the worst thing that has ever happened to space exploration.

“As far as the comment that we ‘need’ a cislunar space station…for what?”

What do we need 43,000 satellites in orbit for? To make someone a trillionaire? To start a nuclear war? To let you place bets from anywhere on Earth on anything on Earth minute by minute? Actually, the reason for these true Space Stations, Lunar Cyclers, and Spaceships is to establish a permanent human presence Beyond Earth Orbit (BEO) and enable technicians to establish and maintain an industrial infrastructure off-world. There is only one industry worth pursuing; Space Solar Power by way of lunar resources as the solution to climate change.

“The big deal is that human spaceflight has never really established, if things are normal, a massive “anchor” in the public heart.”

Sports betting is currently the “massive anchor.” And saying “if things are normal” is not a very cogent argument. When were things “normal?” Was it in the late 50’s and through the 60’s into the early 70’s when America had the largest and richest middle class in the history of the world? When I was a boy my father, a mechanic, owned a house and two cars on a single income and he went on to live out his retirement very comfortably. He was in that sweet spot well after World War 2 and before the Reagan Revolution.

Was that normal? If we want normal we need to tax top earners at the same rate as the year I was born; 91% on those making over 400,000 dollars ( $4,380,027.03 today).

O’Neillian
4 days ago
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Waiting days to see comments published has killed this forum. Not censoring the vicious bullying has emboldened those that excoriate anyone criticizing a certain company. About a half a dozen out of the dozens that squatted here formerly are still on patrol and as malicious as ever. SpaceNews put up a paywall and that forum is dead like the dozen or so others that 10 years ago had hundreds of comments. The only forums with thousands of comments are simply infomercials for that company and the present administration with just enough critical comments allowed to fake that other views are allowed. The bullies won.

O’Neillian
5 days ago
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A certain company whose founder has done incredible damage to this country should move that company and founder to Kazakhstan permanently…and there would be great rejoicing among the decent and sane. (Talking about SpaceX and Musk of course).

O’Neillian
12 days ago
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Dangerous moneymakers for greedy fools. (Regarding European private space rocket startups)

O’Neillian
Robert G. Oler
17 days ago
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I cannot even comment about that creature anymore. Not that my comments would be allowed. What has happened since DOGE cut USAID funding…..is so monstrous it is not allowed to be discussed anywhere. Eventually it will be written about and the horror and shame future generations will experience and the blame laid on us, all of us, is too sad to contemplate. That is all I can say. (Regarding Musk of course)

O’Neillian
Robert G. Oler
20 days ago
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It was all a scam to get money for their starlink truck project. They would almost certainly have a prototype hopper taking off once a week and practicing landing by now if they were actually serious and going to build it. Gwynne stated years ago they are not Moon people. They are money people and invent ways to make money with satellites, not land on the Moon. (Regarding the SpaceX lunar lander)

O’Neillian
19 days ago
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I never considered the Shuttle famous or a national treasure. An infamously bad design that trapped America in LEO for half a century and counting. I personally don’t care what happens to it.

I can tease out only one scenario where it might have been a qualified success; with extra life support pallets it could have stayed in orbit for months at a time and eventually returned by remote control or sending up a non-debilitated pilot to bring it back down. That would have done the same thing as the ISS and saved the taxpayer close to a quarter of a trillion dollars spent so far on the space station to nowhere. Of course, this would be with liquid boosters instead of the SRB’s which killed the Challenger crew and some kind of pre-reentry inspection that would have saved the Columbia crew. Or, even better, a returnable engine module on the bottom so the orbiter was stacked on top with no SSME’s, thus greatly increasing it’s payload. In fact, the SLS configuration, with a reusable escape tower and capsule, is what the Shuttle should have been except….it is all expendable. Hindsight is 20/20.
There is no cheap.

O’Neillian
8 months ago
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1st stage does not get that hot. Only reason to use stainless is if you build the second stage almost the same it reduces costs. Second stage of course does get hot. But the Space Shuttle was made out of aluminum so it is not like heat shield tiles do not work. So why? It reduces the money spent on a thermal protection system. Cheaper. All about cheap. Except….there is no cheap. It is heavy and cuts into payload. It can only be shaved down so much and then you have to do things like the chopsticks to remove weight. Very similar to the Spruce Goose. The Goose was actually about submarines…U-boats. Starship is about satellite megaconstellations.

In my view bringing back the second stage tankage is a fundamental error. It is returning the engine module that should be the goal and leaving the tank material in space to be recycled/repurposed.

O’Neillian
10 months ago
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Forget Mars. Like LEO, it is a complete dead end. Space Solar Power by way of lunar resources as the solution to Climate Change is the only path to expanding humankind off-world.

EXACTLY

Tens of millions in the streets, more than tens of millions, in every city, is the only way to save America now. When the soldiers refuse to use weapons of war on us, when they refuse to kill their fellow citizens, then Trumpism is over, and we get another chance. Only then.

Trump could nuke the world when he realizes he does not have much time left if his presidency starts to melt down. The end of civilization is a real possibility right now. Perhaps the most dangerous moment in history. A nuclear war and the ensuing nuclear winter would kill most of the human race due to starvation. I am scared.

We Are Now A Dictatorship

The regime knows if they lose bad in the midterms that Vance and then Trump will be impeached and the Democrats will arrest everyone involved this time. They are absolutely going to lose bad in the midterms- it is obvious. They are simply not going to let it happen. Either tens of millions, more than tens of millions, in the streets and ending this soon, within the next couple months, or it will be welcome to Trumpistan.

Cheri explains it well; the first five amendments have all been thrown away by the Trumpists. Even worse, the secret police have refused to obey over a hundred court orders. America as we knew it is over. I knew it was over on election night; somehow I knew it in my old bones. Now most of the nation is finally getting it. Maybe too late.

This was the day:

By KATE BRUMBACK
Updated 7:17 PM CST, January 28, 2026
ATLANTA (AP) — The FBI on Wednesday searched the election office of a Georgia county that has been central to right-wing conspiracy theories over President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, acting just one week after the Republican leader predicted prosecutions over a contest he has baselessly insisted was tainted by widespread fraud.

The search at Fulton County’s main election facility in Union City sought records related to the 2020 election. It appeared to be the most public step by law enforcement to pursue Trump’s claims of a stolen election, grievances rejected time and again by courts and state and federal officials, who found no evidence of fraud that would have altered the outcome.

The Bully Wins

Having been unfortunate enough to have been involved in a number of physically violent encounters, I know what not many people understand. Someone who wants to inflict injury on another human being usually has a huge advantage over their victim because the majority of people are wired NOT to harm others and will hesitate in confusion when they should fight back instantly with exactly the same vicious mindset as their attacker. That’s why violent people know they will almost always win as long as they pick on a normie.

And that is the secret of Trumpism.

Patriot vs Loyalist

Patriots are for the people of a nation. Loyalists are for the government of a nation. If the government is good or at least not bad, then the two are almost synonymous. If the government is bad….they have very different meanings. I would take a wild guess and say there are about a hundred million American patriots who regard the people as the nation; “We the People.” There are an undetermined number who regard the present regime as their nation. They believe what most of humankind has for millennia; the people serve the government and it’s minority of rulers. Americans would like to think the government serves it’s people who are in their entirety the rulers.

A hundred million in the streets will make what most Americans would like to think into a reality.

Hope

God help us, we need You now. 5:50

This is how we do it. If a hundred and fifty million Americans commit to this then we get a second chance. If not, then it is likely civilization is going to melt down and billions will die. Because that is EXACTLY what the richest and most powerful people on Earth are trying to make happen.

They are beginning to shutdown independent media and that will accelerate. I am surprised YouTube is still putting these videos up. When it all goes pro-Trump and nobody hears a discouraging word then we either all flood the streets, tens of millions across the nation, and remove Trump, or we will become a copy of the kleptocracies of Russia, Hungary, and Turkey. Our children will have no future and there is a high likelihood of genocide. ICE and Border Patrol will take command of platoons of MAGA AR-15 loyalists and those couple million will make summary execution the national pastime.

Tens of millions in the streets bringing everything to a stop. When so many, literally a hundred million, fill the streets of every city so that no vehicle can move the only option is for the state to order the military to use weapons of war on the masses. If the military refuses to slaughter their fellow citizens then it is over. Trumpism is over. We should get it over with…NOW. As of 2024, the adult male population of the U.S. is approximately 131.5 million. This figure represents slightly less than half of all adults aged 18 and over in the country.

Money Over Human Life

Billionaires are joining together in secret plans to depopulate the planet. They do not like the noises the unwashed masses are making about taxing them into oblivion. Be afraid. They are building bunkers. Figure it out.

Many of us understand what is coming. Americans are just not that stupid, not the majority anyway; most of us can see that when “remigration” shows up on government websites then it is obvious that is next after mass deportation and de-naturalization have run their course. They are white supremacists and want all non-whites gone.