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“Work is about to start” on “fusion rockets”…when we could have spaceships, true spaceships, exploring that first icy body in our system closest to Earth (Ceres) in a relatively short Apollo-program time frame. A “Medusa” spaceship could be lofted into polar orbit in 100 ton modules that would dock with each other and in theContinue reading “Bombs or wait 50 years?”

Everything about how the world works became much clearer after I read a book last year called “Democracy in Chains.” The author did a great job and she wrote on a dense and complicated subject in a way I, just an average person, understood quite well. The central focus of the book was, in myContinue reading “It is actually about taxes”

The Green New Deal is not frequently being addressed by that term due to a great deal of propaganda that has had the effect of programming many Americans to dismiss any notion that our planet is getting hotter. The above video highlights the kind of bought dog politician that represents fossil fuel interests. A GreenContinue reading “Solar Power, maybe from space”

Only one technology is missing to allow actual star travel: revivable cryopreservation. When we can freeze people without damage and revive them decades later then centuries long voyages to other star systems become possible (and desirable as an insurance policy for our species). Accelerated out of the solar system by beam propulsion to some percentageContinue reading “Join Me”

I have been commenting on a couple different sites for the last couple months and it was not a good experience…as if it ever was. The far right has such a stranglehold on these public forums it is scary. The moderators refuse to shut down the harassment when someone (like me) offers alternative opinions. SoContinue reading “Biden and the Green New Space Deal”

Counting the hours now. Thank you God he is out. Thank you God.

“In 1969, the Space Task Group proposed a plan for the post-Apollo future space program. One component was a space tug so crewed flight between the Earth-orbiting space station and the lunar-orbiting space station, from there to the lunar surface. For budget and other reasons, President Nixon rejected this plan, ultimately approving only the spaceContinue reading “The Space Review comments”

The only practical way to have any kind of cislunar habitat is going to be utilizing lunar water for cosmic ray shielding lifted from the poles using 20 to 25 times less energy than from Earth. Since a capsule would require around 400 tons any acceptable amount of living space for even a small crewContinue reading “The Missing Engine”

Those 147 need to resign. And Fox News shut down. And Trump imprisoned. Most important, Americans need to understand these conspiracy theories are lies used to manipulate them. Trust of the fifth estate must be restored. That means Facebook has to come clean and turn off those algorithms driving people insane. And it better happenContinue reading “70 million WAITING”