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Minimum wage should be considered a “first job wage” for teenagers working part-time over the summer break. If wages had kept pace with productivity instead of flatlining during the Reagan Revolution the minimum wage would be 23 dollars an hour. That would be what teenagers working over the summer would get. The best places toContinue reading “23 Dollars per Hour in 2022?”

A new series of nine experimental studies indicates that “discordant knowing”, certainty about something one perceives as opposed by the majority of others, predicts greater fanaticism. The studies showed that experimental manipulation of participants’ views, i.e. putting them in a situation where they are set to see their views as being in opposition to theContinue reading “Discordant Knowing”

Nasa emailed asking for more input and a link to register for their “Moon to Mars” town hall. I responded with this. I provide input and now I am being solicited to do the same for “Moon to Mars.” Except…I don’t want America wasting money on going to Mars. My position on Ceres being theContinue reading “Email to NASA”

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.