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Unfortunately the spacex fanboys are a malicious gang of thugs and will not “be respectful.” Coastal Ron, the Godfather of them all, years ago actually threatened a blog run by a Lunar Geologist on Air and Space magazine with legal action because they were criticizing spacex. They shut the comments section on the blog down.Continue reading “Comments 12”

The gift that has been pouring tax dollars into corporate pockets since 1984- Reagan’s Star Wars. The most profitable scam in DOD history. Missile defense that will never work as advertised. It is fascinating to me because several of the projects inspired by the original Casaba Howitzer research in the 1960’s such as Excalibur resultedContinue reading “Comments 11”

This is the way it works with Human Space Flight Vlad, please pay attention: There is NO PROFIT to be made in HSF. Not going to be for a long time. The SHLV’s required to effect a lunar return and establish a permanent human presence off-world are only going to come from a state-sponsored publicContinue reading “Comments 10”

“-I’m not talking about the more recent SJW/identity political movement.” Why does it seem like you are? Damning NASA and the people “running these programs” is the NeoLiberal Kool-Aid millions of Americans have poured down their throats to varying degrees. Got news for you….it was all bought and paid for by right-wing “think tanks” andContinue reading “Comments 9”

It is not fake news, not “fluff.” What the Musk Cult has been flooding the internet with for a decade is far worse than any so-called fluff. It needs to end. Even Putin congratulated Joe so that is over and this rabid fanboy excoriation of anything critical of Spacex has to stop. If it wasContinue reading “More Comments 8”

If it is SSTO you are inferring as something akin to the first flight then….that might be valid. The problem is simple physics. We live in a gravity well of a certain depth on a planet we don’t want to pollute with any nuclear propulsion byproducts and thus are right now restricted to chemical propulsion.Continue reading “More Comments 7”

Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Space Policy Online. The radiation problem facing astronauts on long duration missions in cislunar space can, in my view, be solved with lunar-ice-derived cosmic ray water shields. These thousands of tons of water can be lifted from the lunar poles with between 20 and 25 timesContinue reading “More Comments 6”

Yes…anyone with a college education gets that. That is not the point. We don’t want that particular revenue stream as moral and ethical human beings. The ones who have no problem with it, the sociopath/psychopath component of humanity, need to be denied their opportunities to kill and destroy. This is one of the reasons NeoliberalismContinue reading “More Comments 5”

The 110,000 pound thrust BE-3 would be able to land a…large…payload on the Moon. And if refueled on the Moon could lift off with large loads of water for cosmic ray shielding in Frozen Low Lunar Orbit (LLO) workshops. Human platforms, likely SHLV wet workshops in LLO, NRHO, and Lunar Cycler orbits, will all requireContinue reading “More Comments 4”

The Legal, Medical, and Engineering Professions are the triad which enables civilization to exist. All the fools here blathering about doing away with those pesky lawyers are the idiot children of the human race. If they actually believe what they are babbling. I suspect most are just playing that game we have seen in government forContinue reading “More Comments 3”