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I Will Never Forget

Nobody will talk about this….and it makes me ashamed to be an American. I don’t know how it is not keeping other people awake at night either. I think about it every day. God damn them.

The number of missions is starting to catch up with the probability of something going wrong with the abort system on the crew dragon. Tomorrow, they are taking crew to the ISS and it is starting to eat at me that 5 years ago I did a blog entry warning of the poorly designed abortContinue reading “Revisiting Kathy in Control”

A Nuclear Free Earth

Space Review comment: A Nuclear Thermal Rocket, for fantastic expense, roughly doubles the Isp of chemical rockets…using a source of energy literally one million times more powerful. Stan Ulam, who is sometimes credited with being the real father of the hydrogen bomb, considered this problem and realized it is difficult just keeping a chemical rocketContinue reading “A Nuclear Free Earth”

Killing Democracy

The central idea of democracy is the only reason anyone has anything is the rest of us (all of us) let them. The central problem of democracy is that a day of work paying a dollar to one person and a million dollars to another person inevitably leads to a very few owning everything andContinue reading “Killing Democracy”

Not-see Grok

This is so bizarre it is unbelievable.

SpaceNews Paywall

https://thespacereview.com/article/5020/1 The SpaceNews forum was always my “home” in regard to expressing my views on space exploration and colonization. Even though I was repeatedly banned, I always returned home. Now, along with the many other forums that have disappeared, it is gone. What is left is The Space Review…and in my view is not addressingContinue reading “SpaceNews Paywall”

America Party

“At the end of the day, the America Party will only split votes from one party, the Republican Party. This will cause Democrats to win and destroy the country.” America already ended on election night. Passing the big ugly is just more proof of that. What will come next, if autocracy is defeated, will beContinue reading “America Party”

Freedom is NOT Greed

“The only concrete proposal he provides is to get rid of billionaires—or, rather, their billions, suggesting that an individual’s net worth be capped at $500 million: “there’s no reason we as a society have to put up with the continued existence of billionaires,” who he argues help “fringe philosophies” thrive.” I have to absolutely andContinue reading “Freedom is NOT Greed”

Reverse Robin Hood

The largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in the history of America. Millions living precariously from paycheck to paycheck with any medical emergency a bankruptcy.

Defiance?

Mamdani has to be scaring the heck out of them. “The stupidest public lie ever told by a secretary of defense.” In 1968, a month before humans first left Earth orbit on Apollo 8, the Science article “Power from the sun: Its Future” by Peter E. Glaser, was published. Six years later and a little over aContinue reading “Defiance?”