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NASA has stated that between 2 and 3 RPM are the likely limits for humans to be able to function in an artificial gravity environment. I would go conservative and just call it 1RPM as the best place to start. Using the easy-to-find “SpinCalc” website we get a tether length of 5868 feet to generateContinue reading “Real Space Technology”

“I strongly believe that the right to bear arms is an important safeguard against potential tyranny of government. Historically, maintaining their power over the people is why those in power did not allow public ownership of guns,” Musk told CNBC on May 25. The billionaire then told the outlet that he supports “tight background checks” for allContinue reading “Rocket Jesus on Guns”

As a systems troubleshooter with a mind conditioned to think critically, I have observed how cognitive dissonance takes over people. I have seen it dozens of times at every level, in my work on aircraft and up the ladder to higher rungs in the chain of command. What is bizarre is that when it isContinue reading “We Must Go to Stay”

Not only am I running out of time, it may be humankind is also. Well….it is possible, at some point, the scientific community is going to have a “don’t look up” intervention and say that at least, at the very least, several billion people are going to die when our fragile civilization begins to unravelContinue reading “Running Out of Time”

I thought spacenews was finally realizing what toxic creeps commenting on their forum they had been enabling and aiding all these years and was going to let me keep commenting but they would never answer any of my emails. Now they have shadow-banned me it appears. Sad that they will forever be associated with Musk’sContinue reading “I had a good run…but banned again- for the last time”

The National Defense Authorization Act, budgeting $740 billion for defense, was signed 27 December 2021.[12] The DOD spends around 20 percent of the federal budget. Throw in the DOE (nuclear weapons) and DHS and a couple other defense related expenditures and this trillion dollars a year accomplishes….what?It reminds me of the ISS at 4 billionContinue reading “He is not a Space Buff”

“-a new post at the office of the assistant secretary of defense for space policy, which oversees a larger portfolio including space, nuclear weapons, cyber, missile defense, electromagnetic warfare, and countering weapons of mass destruction. He will work within the office of John Hill, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and missile defense.Hill’s officeContinue reading “Responsible Behavior”

Missile defense is a scam, always has been. It was Reagan’s present to the defense industry; free money forever. They rig a test every couple years to make it look like it will work but it is not going to stop any real attack by an adversary. It costs billions and is worthless. Like theContinue reading “Space Farce Trump Force”

The spacex AX-1 flight took off today, 8 April 2022. Billionaire tourists to the ISS. Feels like the end. NewSpace seems to have completely corrupted that most sacred American endeavor, Human Space Flight. I am so sad. If those astronauts who sacrificed years of their lives to meet the standards allowing them to be selectedContinue reading “The End of the Dream?”

Terran Space Academy has a YouTube video called “Super Launch System” that is pretty amazing. The points made in the video lead me to the conclusion, again, that a pair of the New Glenn boosters are likely the perfect replacement for the SLS SRB’s. They might even be able to make a crossfeed feature ofContinue reading “The Moon is all that is left”