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Strip mining Earth orbit as in destroying a natural environment for short term gain. “-everything it has (government) is confiscated from the people whom create it. Those are redistributed as a result of politics not free market economics-“ Neoliberalism is wrecking the planet. The Ayn-Rand-in-Space libertarian crazies that flood these space forums with their toxicContinue reading “Fiduciary Duty to Mammon”

“-if you can’t impose the same restrictions on everyone all you’re doing is harming yourself-“ Actually, that is completely backasswards logic. Unless you are placing profit above human life and then it makes perfect sense. Climate change threatens all of humankind. A few of us consider ourselves demi-gods though. “Just like building cars, refrigerators, TVs, and everythingContinue reading “Part 12”

I corresponded with Lunar Geologist Paul Spudis several years ago off and on about various things lunar both on his blog and by email. I asked him about tubes near ice and he told me there were no lava tubes near the polar craters with known ice. Nowhere even close. He would know. Maybe thereContinue reading “Part 11”

Some people are getting “exercised.” Actually, not GCR broadly, but the heavy nuclei component. And it is the world’s recognized authority on space radiation, Dr. Eugene Parker, the guy they named the space probe after, that has concerns. And others. NASA is not concerned about people who go on a couple missions and don’t goContinue reading “Part 10”

I think it is interesting that the most important piece of hardware that enables NPP is in production right now: The Launch Abort System on the SLS. Any well designed capsule/tower combination makes getting the “pulse unit” primary components into space safely fairly straightforward. You see to transport the fissile “pits” into space you haveContinue reading “Part 9”

“-that it would end up costing far more than it would produce. They simply say that they would still favor it, only as a way to ensure the survival of the species.” Not that much more. And NOT if the components were manufactured on the Moon. You keep spinning this. “Paying it’s way” compared toContinue reading “Part 8”

I would guess the structure being discussed would serve to deploy and aid in stabilizing a tether system suspending mult-thousand ton masses, rather than be the actual load bearing part of the system. And while zero G debilitation is half the problem, the other half that must be solved along with it is cosmic radiation,Continue reading “Part 7”

That the NewSpace fanboys think space stations are going to be “cheap” and they will be able to take out a second mortgage and get their astronaut wings that way is how the movement started. Juvenile, ridiculous, harmful to space exploration. SLSFanboy Michael Weidler  Another spacex advertisement…thanks for the second hand pot smoke. Vladislaw  SLSFanboy and how isContinue reading “The War Continues part 6”

“Rocket Cargo” for Space Force? Bizarre and one of those programs that is just plain stupid DOD waste. Space Force should have been disbanded by Joe Biden. It was Trump’s way of giving the military the middle finger, whom he considered “suckers and losers.” Creating a service where none of it’s members go in harm’sContinue reading “The War Continues part 5”

“It will be technically difficult to divorce this marriage.” Not really. Abandon the ISS and splash it. Not technically difficult. “All alternatives, short and long term, should be explored. If necessary, even the use of SLS should be considered, diverted from a lunar goal that is ambiguous. “ Splash the space station to nowhere andContinue reading “The War Continues part 4”