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I was not able to sleep and had to call out from work. No way I can pull a thirteen hour all-nighter at my age with zero sleep. I am exhausted and I have no idea what is going on. Perhaps it is cumulative stress… even though I have not been to work in overContinue reading “Cannot Sleep”

https://www.space.com/darpa-nuclear-thermal-rocket-for-moon-contract Stan Ulam figured it out in 1947. He realized that it was hard enough keeping a chemical rocket from melting and trying to contain a reaction one million times more powerful was simply not worth the trouble. At tremendous expense and risk a Nuclear Thermal Rocket would be only a little over twice asContinue reading “Same Old Dead End”

It just turned midnight here and it is now the first day of October. The coronavirus vaccines are on the way and a few people are starting to predict the end of Trump… or a civil war. I am starting to pay a little more attention to the future and to my calling to writeContinue reading “Only A Month Till The End”

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918483794/from-debate-stage-trump-declines-to-denounce-white-supremacy It is so obvious and yet no one will say it: The President of the United States is courting the Neo-Nazi movement. Proud boys celebrate. Rachel hit the nail on the head. I just don’t want to watch it. And I have been clicking off news that shows segments of it. Trump is essentiallyContinue reading “Genes and Genocide”

https://futurism.com/mit-researchers-fusion-reactor-very-likely-work When I started this blog I held to some strong positions concerning space travel and the future of humankind. One of those positions was an extremely skeptical view of fusion reactors. I have repeatedly stated over the years the only two places fusion was going to be useful was in a sun or aContinue reading “Fusion and Age Reversal”

A long time ago early humans, or rather, hominids, discovered by smacking rocks together they could make a very useful tool we now call the hand axe (not with a handle as we understand an axe, but a sharp rock held in the hand). We began the journey to our present society with these amazingContinue reading “Calories to Dollars”

I have an interesting metaphor when considering the present political situation: Just as Sam Harris states our sense of self is actually something we manufacture, so to is our sense of country and all the bad that goes along with whatever good we derive from our nationalist identity. It may be the key to anyContinue reading “How do you like them apples?”

I grew up with World War Two veterans in my family and as a boy I learned that Nazis are not to be imitated, glorified, complimented, admired, or spoken in anything but the most derogatory terms. Really. My uncle was at the Battle of the Bulge. No love for Nazis. Zero. So…I don’t like whatContinue reading “Not Acceptable to Boomers”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/world/moon-radiation-astronauts-exposure-scn/index.html For several years I endlessly argued with Muskrats about cosmic radiation, among other things, on the forums found on popular space blogs and news sites. Until, one by one, I was eventually banned from all of them. My message was as unchanging as the amount of radiation and decrease in bone mass experienced byContinue reading “Those Cosmic Ray Rats Again”