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You had something to hideShould have hidden it, shouldn’t you?Now you’re not satisfiedWith what you’re being put through It’s just time to pay the priceFor not listening to adviceAnd deciding in your youthOn the policy of truth Things could be so different nowIt used to be so civilizedYou will always wonder howIt could have beenContinue reading “Policy of Truth”

A Near Sea Level Radiation One Gravity (NSLR1G) environment is the prerequisite for Human Space Flight Beyond Earth Orbit (HSF-BEO). A massive cosmic ray water shield (CRWS) and Tether Generated Artificial Gravity (TGAG) system are the only practical ways to provide this. The keys to providing NSLR1G crew compartments are double-hulled “Fat Workshops” lofted asContinue reading “Comments on Matt Williams Artificial Gravity Story”

Better not to do a spacex and blow it up. A ULA perfect record is preferred. The question is what will future iterations look like? The desired design philosophy, in my view, is that of the original Shuttle which the boosters and engines come from, which is a Saturn V class launch vehicle that expendsContinue reading “Waiting For Friday SLS Launch”

No SLS launch today. While the Trump Force gets funding close to NASA’s entire budget next year to weaponize Earth orbit with megaconstellations in a new cold war money scam, the spacex fanboys wail and gnash their teeth over SLS. While the Navy gets their new missile submarine and the Air Force gets their newContinue reading “No Joy Today”

With the Artemis program years behind schedule and billions over budget, and derided as a wasteful and ponderous boondoggle by the NewSpace crowd, NASA has a lot to prove. Actually, it is “the NewSpace crowd” that has proved what a bunch of toxic cyberthugs they are…for years. The worst thing that has ever happened toContinue reading “Monday SLS Launches”

Oh yes…we are going. The deluded spacex fan club fantasizes that America loves spacex and hates NASA when it is them, a small slice of libertarian manic obsession, that hates NASA and by extension America, and LOVES spacex. Bizarre and strange that since they have hijacked all these public space forums for going on tenContinue reading “SLS Countdown Comments”

Thank you Charles Blow.

Rocket jesus is slowly spiraling toward disaster. From a recent Time Magazine article: “Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.” “In crafting his future visions, Musk draws on the libertarianContinue reading “SLS is GOING!”

77 years ago we nuked Japan. On a show I really like, Amanpour and Company, a recent episode tried to argue, on this very liberal program, that dropping the bomb was necessary to force Japan to surrender. Which greatly disappointed me. I had thought that issue had been decided years ago by works examining JapaneseContinue reading “Hiroshima Day 2022”

Listening to On Point and an interview with co-authors on a book about democracy. One of them talked about Trump as “the great persuader” and it was very enlightening. He ended by saying that this sub-literate whose only guide is Hitler’s speeches could be the greatest persuader in history is too bitter to contemplate. AmericansContinue reading “Too Bitter to Contemplate”