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While it can be argued this blog is in itself an opinion column, I have been contacting some websites soliciting an opinion column about Human Space Flight. Considering the intense harassment and criticism I get when simply trying to comment on forums it might just catch on.

Anthea Butler: “They cannot come to grips with the fact that the Christianity of America is just like any other fundamentalist religion that gets weaponized in order to hold on to power. Therefore, they have to continue to tell themselves that everything that happened on Jan. 6 was an aberration and not something religious in nature.Continue reading “Liberal Christians Will Fight”

Rocket jesus is firing people and whining about the economy. Could be a sign his house of cards is collapsing, and the Enron of space is about to crash and burn. Real space enthusiasts can only hope and pray the ten-year NewSpace nightmare is about to end. We also have “Klan gone Hiel HItler” commentingContinue reading “My Last Comment on Space Review”

Peter Weber wrote: How Jack Welch helped create the America of Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk The gap between America’s rich and the poor — or really, the rich and everyone else — has stretched into a chasm. That’s fairly indisputable. The current divergence between the wealthiest Americans and the lower 90 percent ofContinue reading “Jack Welch as the Antichrist”

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”