Author Archives: billgamesh

“Jesus Christ would have to come down and tell me that Biden won before I would ever believe it,” one Donald Trump supporter said at the former president’s first rally of 2021. Barr is not Christ…but he was Trump’s boy and I have to believe him I guess.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-13/republican-party-radicalization-ronald-reagan-donald-trump

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327448828_Isaiah_5_A_prophetic_critique_of_economic_proportion/fulltext/5b90152c92851c6b7ec29775/Isaiah-5-A-prophetic-critique-of-economic-proportion.pdf?origin=publication_detail It has happened over and over again over the last eight thousand or so years…but this time might be the last. In the 21st century our species may not survive a descent into the chaos at the end of empire again.

Trump thinks he will be overthrowing the government in August. Gaetz says we should exercise our 2nd Amendment rights and Flynn says we should have a military coup. “This has become an actual viable threat to our democracy-.” The Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, The Boogaloo Boys, Qanon, etc. etc. are ready to go toContinue reading “Simple Marine”

But…enough about blogging, on to my futurist agenda. To dive right into that let us go back to a paper written in 1998: http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs07jones.pdfBoth of these approaches do away with the intermediary of lasers and particle accelerators, using instead very large electric current pulses generated bypulsed power sources to implode a fusion target. The currentContinue reading “The Clean Bomb”

“It is much more than that-” Today was a big deal. Democracy continues to be in great danger. “The reason our party is growing with minorities and with working men and women is because president Trump appears to be on the side of people working really hard-” Lindsey Graham My coworkers are blue collar andContinue reading “AZ blogger vs Failed FL blogger”

Parabolic Arc, the last forum where I was allowed to comment, has banned me. No criticism of the NewSpace flagship company (or it’s founder) is tolerated on any of the popular space forums. The intense and incessant harassment I have experienced over the last decade anywhere I have attempted to express my views was neverContinue reading “Banned Forever by NewSpace”

“Those guys would happily cut subsidies, then use the decline in ridership as prices increased and services were reduced as evidence the system was failing.” The majority of the fanboys commenting here are Ayn-Rand-in-space libertarians and completely disagree with anything being “publicly funded and/or subsidized.” In fact, what you just described, along with lying, bribery,Continue reading “The Shiny Horror has Landed”

“Until the advent of the reusable Falcon 9,-“ And after the “advent” of plastic milk jugs we started throwing them in the trash instead of reusing glass bottles at great expense. Even Philip Bono, the father of VTVL, understood that only so much reuse was practical and incorporated some expendable tanks in his designs. NotContinue reading “Expendable or Shiny”

I have come to believe Apollo 8 was the real milestone and landing on the Moon anti-climactic. It was the beginning of the space age and the end came with Apollo 17. They are all still alive from the first mission but only Jack Schmitt from the last. SLS and Artemis will begin the secondContinue reading “Jobs, Jobs, on the Moon”