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Anybody with any practical technical knowledge that has read a stack of books on space travel should understand the basic problems involved. This does not appear to be the case, at least for those who have popular YouTube channels. If you were to pick the way to get human beings down from space in theContinue reading “No Space Planes please”

A very interesting Salon article by Chauncey DeVega: The right-wing “cancel culture” mob has once again grabbed their torches and pitchforks. Their newest target is documentary filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore. What is Moore’s most recent offense? In response to Monday’s mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, Moore tweeted “The life of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shows that people canContinue reading “Basic Psychology”

Quantum “unconditionally” secured communications make human-crewed combat aircraft obsolete. The most expensive DOD program in history- the F-35- is a boondoggle and the ultimate expression of “pork.” The most incredibly expensive waste of taxpayer dollars is not this single weapon system though, it is the replacement of legacy systems now underway to the tune ofContinue reading “More Parabolic Comments”

How many more billions down the Mars rathole? It is, like LEO, a complete dead end. The snake oil salesmen calling it the next home of humankind are promoting the absurd. Any naked mole rat/humans living in tunnels under Mars would dream of one thing; going back to Earth. Except living for years in aContinue reading “Parabolic Comments”

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2021/03/03/spacexs-starship-sn9-flies-lands-takes-off-again-and-explodes/ I have to put this article about space after the video about politics because both feature different cults: The Cult of Trump and The Cult of Musk. With not too much difference between the two. This idea that there are givers and takers, that people who are not white are the takers…is fundamental toContinue reading “Cults”

Everything we are seeing cause division and conflict in our society can be traced back to one issue. It is about…taxes. How much must be paid? Everyone wants to be rich, to be the richest, to be the king of the world. The communists saw all money as a function of property, of land andContinue reading “Redistribution of Wealth is Key”

The Green New Deal is on the way, but it has enemies working hard to keep it from ever arriving. Believe it.

Spacenews posted on the recent Falcon 9 loss and Starlink problems: “In a recent white paper, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) argued that the FCC should closely scrutinize SpaceX’s plans to provide broadband internet service via satellite. Those groups say bids by rural cooperatives for RDOF funding to provideContinue reading “Starlink likely to FAIL?”

What the Far-Right Fascination With Pinochet Should Tell Us (theintercept.com) The Father of all lies, the first lie that leads to all other lies, is that taxes are theft. The one percent have spent untold millions creating the myth that all taxation is stealing and that wealth must trickle down for prosperity to happen. ThisContinue reading “Well over fifty percent”