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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”

“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”