Every single time he is seen it should be prefaced with the richest man in the world responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of the poorest children in the world…never forget Musk is monster. The not-see salutes were him telling us what he really is. Why the cruelty? Perfect explanation of Trumpism….really, reallyContinue reading “Child Murdering Monster”
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Slavery not so bad?
One out of seven human beings living in the south in 1860 were black slaves and the property of whites who could take their children and sell them, whip them, rape them, and kill them if they fought back. Perfectly legal. Roughly two of six southern white families were involved in owning slaves while theContinue reading “Slavery not so bad?”
Tax the rich or be their slaves
8:55 “-even though the republicans started this craziness, no democrat stopped it, and we got to the point where corporate profits became our bottom line, our governing principle, as opposed to humanitarian values and democratic values…” @vee1267 (YouTube comment)Agree 100%, I’ve thought for years now that you can’t be a billionaire AND a good person,Continue reading “Tax the rich or be their slaves”
The Next Big Lie
The Oxford publication PNAS NEXUS is a good example of why Trumpists are trying to control academia. A recent article explained that annual state-level estimates of the undocumented resident population at each census date have been used to examine the consequences of including them in official apportionment data since 1980. If undocumented residents had beenContinue reading “The Next Big Lie”
I Will Never Forget
Nobody will talk about this….and it makes me ashamed to be an American. I don’t know how it is not keeping other people awake at night either. I think about it every day. God damn them.
Revisiting Kathy in Control
The number of missions is starting to catch up with the probability of something going wrong with the abort system on the crew dragon. Tomorrow, they are taking crew to the ISS and it is starting to eat at me that 5 years ago I did a blog entry warning of the poorly designed abortContinue reading “Revisiting Kathy in Control”
A Nuclear Free Earth
Space Review comment: A Nuclear Thermal Rocket, for fantastic expense, roughly doubles the Isp of chemical rockets…using a source of energy literally one million times more powerful. Stan Ulam, who is sometimes credited with being the real father of the hydrogen bomb, considered this problem and realized it is difficult just keeping a chemical rocketContinue reading “A Nuclear Free Earth”
Killing Democracy
The central idea of democracy is the only reason anyone has anything is the rest of us (all of us) let them. The central problem of democracy is that a day of work paying a dollar to one person and a million dollars to another person inevitably leads to a very few owning everything andContinue reading “Killing Democracy”
Not-see Grok
This is so bizarre it is unbelievable.
SpaceNews Paywall
https://thespacereview.com/article/5020/1 The SpaceNews forum was always my “home” in regard to expressing my views on space exploration and colonization. Even though I was repeatedly banned, I always returned home. Now, along with the many other forums that have disappeared, it is gone. What is left is The Space Review…and in my view is not addressingContinue reading “SpaceNews Paywall”
Ice on the Moon 