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Most of the posts that so gravely offended the Musk fanboys appear to have been deleted. Maybe one or two cut and pasted here in earlier entries. Oh Well. “-carrying enough shielding is impractical-“The “problem” is that this statement is bassackwards; NOT carrying enough shielding is impractical. It is the elephant in the room, theContinue reading “The War Continues part 3”

Two of the most vicious cyberthugs that wallow in the cesspool of Muskrat fanaticism have recently made comments and have commenced blowing the “Gary” dog whistle. Disgusting GIFs and endless harassment is on the way. Meanwhile, the comments keep going up: “I envision development of the Moon as a series of steps toward it becomingContinue reading “The War Continues part 2”

“I can’t have a conversation with you if others are going to attack me. I would direct you to the classic article for the layman on space radiation written by the world’s acknowledged expert on the subject, “Shielding Space Travelers” by Eugene Parker- the guy they named the space probe after. Nothing stops heavy nucleiContinue reading “The War Continues”

VirgilSamms January 30, 2011 at 3:41 pm “There are proposed technologies that have been demonstrated in the lab that totally remove this shielding requirement.”This is the same smokescreen that has been thrown up for years to confuse the poorly informed. Let me state the facts one…more…time;The heavy nuclei component of galactic cosmic radiation, over 300Continue reading “Old Space Politics”

I have been spending some time trying to refine my speculative concepts on Space Colonization and have had some new thoughts! Going back to the most basic requirement of humans in space and proceeding from there is pointing me at an old project from the first space age: the Chrysler SERV from 1969. The FlowContinue reading “Sixteen and Sixty Feet”

I watched a video by Sydney Brown on Conflict Theory the other day and it made me think about thesis and antithesis and synthesis and how I could apply that…to space exploration. It was a great video: I have seen how groups form and split away from each other my whole life. In school itContinue reading “Letter to Scott Manley”

Comments: Ahhh…Mars. Complete dead end. Gerard K. O’Neill and his people concluded that spinning artificial hollow moons and space solar power is how to take out an insurance policy for humankind. The first step is to exploit the resources of the Moon. O”Neill proposed a state-sponsored public works project using space solar as the economicContinue reading “Common Sense Skeptic Is My Hero!”

“I had one man try to rip my mask off. I’ve been screamed at, I’ve been told to go back to my country,” she said, after someone heard her speak with an accent.” My uncle was at the Battle of the Bulge, and I was told that, just like in the 1965 war movie, heContinue reading “Nazi Rockets and Nazi Truckers”

3:00 “-When we were kinds, we saw the close-up shot of those NASA rockets going up, the country coming together-” I was going to try and lay off the politics and get back into the original mission of this blog but…I cannot seem to do that when the space age is being referred to inContinue reading “Those NASA rockets going up”

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/02/05/international-space-station-crash-chris-hadfield-nasa-nwdywknd-vpx.cnn Hadfield talks about how great spacex is but then talks about what a big problem space junk is. Ridiculous. He then goes on to talk about space tourism being the next big thing and how it will “free up NASA to explore.” Ridiculous. The ISS never should have been built. Of the many pathsContinue reading “End of the ISS”