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To paraphrase Jung, “It is the revolt of the powerless, the insatiable greed of the have-nots, and they are likely to gravitate toward powerful collective ideologies, mass movements, and institutions.” A friend is currently taking a leadership class at her workplace and interestingly, someone fairly high up in her organization, way above her, is alsoContinue reading “Truth to Power”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2017/03/28/physicist-wants-to-beam-solar-energy-back-from-moons-surface/#4e9820405743 The Doomsday Clock has been advanced and a possible global pandemic is spreading. And…there is the subject of Space Based Solar Power as the cure for climate change, which is just as important as Mutually Assured Destruction and another black death. Existential threats are a recurring theme on this blog as the reason spaceContinue reading “100 seconds, Coronavirus, and Criswell”

I recently heard an author writing about the U.S. say in an interview, “The truth is out there and trust no one. ” It was meant in the same sense as the old joke, “it is not my fault I am an other-blamer.” The theme of this Ice on the Moon entry is how humansContinue reading “Heresy and Ocean Moons.”

Geekwire photo- Alan Boyle I had a spark of hope some years ago when I read Jeff Bezos was looking for a Saturn V F-1 engine in the ocean. What was that all about? It made me wonder if he was actually going to build that piece of hardware so critical to Human Space FlightContinue reading “Blue Origin and O’Neill”

About four and one half years ago one of my first blog entries was “Amazon Women on the Moon.” At that time I inferred a new military service, a “Space Navy” would best be composed of young women in the interest of effecting Survival Colonies on the Moon. I have not changed my mind onContinue reading “Six Turtles to Luna”

By Gary Michael Church From: Project Orion, the true story of the atomic spaceship, by George Dyson   Few people today could tell you what the “41 for Freedom” were. In the late 1950’s the DOD worried over the Soviet Union destroying the U.S. strategic deterrent of nuclear weapons in a “first strike.” Missiles inContinue reading “The First Space Boomer”

I have had writers block since just before the New Year and hopefully this Joe Scott YouTube video has snapped me out of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODWq94L0HTs I posted the following comments on YouTube concerning Joe’s video: “A “space station” vs an orbital platform would have a cosmic ray water shield and artificial gravity, likely using aContinue reading “Not a Space Station Joe”

Image by Lucy Wiley https://www.pinterest.com/lucywiley1946/ NASA mission to track near Earth objects takes shape “This mission would answer a fundamental question: Are there asteroids or comets out there that can cause harm to the Earth over the next century?” I can answer that question right now. Yes. The first space age lasted four years andContinue reading “Space Force and NEO’s”

By Gary Michael Church https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/nasa-boeing-commercial-crew/603970/ The “dramatic error in American spaceflight” is just one more on the list. The first mistake was not making Project Orion and Nuclear Pulse Propulsion part of the NASA charter in 1958. It must have been obvious even then that lighting off hundreds of bombs in the atmosphere was notContinue reading “The List of Errors”

https://www.livescience.com/age-when-life-has-most-meaning.html According to this article my search for meaning was important to me in my 20’s and is now at it’s lowest point while my sense that life has meaning was low then and is now at it’s highest. Statistically across a number of individuals. Of course I have to be the unhappy exception. IContinue reading “Meaning around 60”