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At this point in our likely short history, our only plan is greed. Spoiled rotten children bullying and lying to acquire more toys than their siblings. Greed has become our parent, our narcissistic enabler, our rai·son d’ê·tre. The agent of greed, money, is the god of this world. Speculation, or gambling, or the market, orContinue reading “No Plan, No Future”

The man who could have taken humankind to the farthest reaches of the solar system is gone. He was a personal hero of mine due to his work on Nuclear Pulse Propulsion and is the second named scientist in the Parker-Dyson-Spudis continuum. I was never really a space enthusiast until 2003 when I read GeorgeContinue reading “Freeman Dyson”

image CNBC Converting the United States Military Industrial Complex into something that will create a sustainable future for humankind will be the great feat of history. Nothing impossible about it or even extremely challenging in terms of technology. It is what we should do as a species if we want our children and grandchildren toContinue reading “Bernie and the Green New Space Deal”

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”