Friday, January 17, 2025

Transportation secretary nominee vows to review SpaceX launch license fines
Failure is necessary to achieve eventual success.
The Cure for Vaccine Skepticism
As Iran's Economy Collapses, Mullahs Blame Others
The metaphysics of talking to aliens
Could time travel actually be possible? One researcher thinks so
Xenon Gas Inhalation Shows Promise for Alzheimer’s Disease
Nanoparticles Reverse Parkinson's in Mice by Healing Damaged Dopamine Cells
We’re Unleashing the Rockefeller Moment for Coal
Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington (2 book series)
A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1)
Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2)
You Never Forget a Fire: The suffering residents of the Golden State may now force a reorientation of its ways of governance.
Trump Can Make Russia Pay to Rebuild Ukraine: The West has frozen $300 billion of Moscow’s assets, but Europe has stood in the way of using them.
A Tale of Two State Insurance Markets: Florida fixed its market with reforms. California didn’t. See the results.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Fight To The Death | Dune (1984) | Screen Bites

David Lynch, director of such films as the 1984 version of Dune, has passed. Here follows one of the great knife fights scenes in cinema history.

FULL CIRCLE: Wyoming to bury old wind turbines in empty coal mines
Goodbye Joe. Enjoy the beach
Told Ya: Israel Delays Deal Approval After Hamas Hokey Pokey
I was interviewed about things space on a show called The Other Side of Midnight on WABC
Stoke Space raises $260 million
A Rising Trump Tide Lifts All Boats and Hopes
Is California turning on its leaders? LA Times owner regrets endorsing Mayor Bass
Climate Change Did Not Cause the L.A. Fires
Who Really Denied Statehood to the Palestinian People?
Babies born on Mars could diverge from Earthlings within a couple of generations
Pravda reports Trump readies unexpected plan for Ukraine crisis that Putin won't refuse

The original article: Trump can use Russia’s space program to end the war in Ukraine

Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Disrupter in Chief Trump
Biden Betrays the Cuban People
Meta's New Translation AI Is Nearly a Babel Fish

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Isaacman Wins Support, But Also Criticism from Republicans
Glacier Experts Uncover Critical Flaw in Sea-Level Rise Predictions
Breakthrough device promises non-invasive sweat-based health monitoring
Falcon 9 launches American and Japanese commercial lunar landers
Crazy Like a Fox: Trump’s Greenland Pitch
Are Aliens Out There? We Asked Scientists What They Really Think
Precision Targeting of Senescent Cells
Cyclarity Therapeutics receives approval for human clinical trial
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
North Korean Troops Become Cannon Fodder for Russia
Pete Hegseth Gets a Senate Pass
Newsom Has a Permitting Epiphany

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Morning Glory: California's catastrophe
Exclusive—Newt Gingrich & Bob Walker: The Right Stuff: In Support of Jared Isaacman’s Nomination to Lead NASA
Japan develops fire-proof EV battery to boost safety, energy density and more
What Trump’s First 100 Days Could Look Like for US Gas
Trump can power the US into the future with a muscular nuclear energy policy
Flying cars could soon become a reality
Genetically Engineered Male Insects Shorten Their Mates’ Lifespans
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
The Immigrants America Needs
Pete Hegseth Faces a Skeptical Senate
California’s Wildfire Climate Excuse

Monday, January 13, 2025

Donate to Those Affected by the California Wildfires
SpaceX will launch 2 private lunar landers this week, kicking off busy year for moon missions
Space lettuce: NASA's plans to grow nutritious plants on Mars
Uber And Lyft Will Roll Out Robotaxis This Year. But There’s A Problem
"Climate Change is Showing its Claws" Disaster losses in 2024 tell a very different story
Blue Origin scrubs first New Glenn launch attempt
An icy vent line may have caused Blue Origin to scrub debut launch of New Glenn
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
How the Left Turned California Into a Paradise Lost
Bad Policy Served as Kindling for California’s Wildfires
Trump Speaks Truth to Wind Power

Sunday, January 12, 2025

US firm’s all-solid-state EV battery breakthrough offers more energy density, longer range
Trump can use Russia’s space program to end the war in Ukraine

If Putin were to come to terms with Ukraine, ending his war of conquest, Trump could offer Russia a role in the Artemis program in exchange. The incoming U.S. president could point out that Russia has prospered as a result of the International Space Station partnership. Without that partnership, Russia would not be any kind of space power,

An Alternative to Buying Greenland That Could Actually Work
Countdown to the Moon: NASA, SpaceX, and Firefly’s Bold Blue Ghost Mission Launches Next Week
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin readies powerful New Glenn rocket for maiden flight
NASA lab and historic observatory narrowly escape LA fire damage
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
NASA is Sending a Vacuum Cleaner to the Moon
Trump Announces His Plans for the Border That Will Start Day 1
When Addiction Treatment Fails, Can a Brain Implant Succeed?

Saturday, January 11, 2025

I Helped 2,000 People Walk Again

'Space coast' congressman sets bold goal for American moon missions
US Senator Ted Cruz talks SpaceX and Highway 4
New photos show the volcanic plains of Mercury after a spacecraft fly-by
The Eight Coolest Inventions From the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show
Aspect Raises $115M for Bioprinted Tissue Therapeutics
Did Trump Just Win a ‘Tectonic’ Election?
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Los Angeles Is an Alluring, Elaborate Progressive Trap
California’s Climate Time for Choosing
5 looming questions about California’s devastating wildfires

Friday, January 10, 2025

Port Strike Averted...and Who the Union Credits Is a Massive Embarrassment for Biden
Canadian Doctors Suggest Harvesting Organs From Euthanasia Patients Before They’re Dead
New Glenn v Starship - Two mega rockets on the launchpad and ready to fly from Jristin Fisher's new YouTube channel
US plans to transform coal mine into nuclear power station with 500 MW capacity
Trump vows to reverse Biden's sweeping ban on offshore oil, gas drilling
Two Nuclear Microreactors Reach Milestone
A taller, heavier, smarter version of SpaceX’s Starship is almost ready to fly
Topical Therapy Trains Immune System to Eliminate Precancerous Skin Lesions
Joe Biden Is No Jimmy Carter
A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned
Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned
Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington (2 book series) #CommissionEarned
The Elon Musk Effect and Britain’s Rape Gangs
Trump’s New NATO Spending Target
California’s Wildfire Insurance Catastrophe

Thursday, January 09, 2025

Safe, Shocked, Grateful: How to Help: Los Angeles fires and HOW TO HELP
Food grows better on the moon than on Mars, scientists find
Intuitive Machines set for second landing, looking to build a lunar economy
Remember The Snail Darter? It Was Never Real
What time is Blue Origin's 1st New Glenn rocket launch on Jan. 10?
Elon Musk says SpaceX to provide Starlink terminals to areas affected by LA fires
SpaceX to launch Starship megarocket's Flight 7 test mission on Jan. 13
DeSantis: Move NASA headquarters to Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County, Florida
Physicist claims to have solved the infamous 'grandfather paradox,' making time travel (theoretically) possible
Extending Lifespan 33% By Combining FDA-Approved Drugs
AI Enhances Breast Cancer Detection Rates, Can Reduce Radiologist Shortages
Biden’s Bitterness Came Back to Bite Him
Scientists Discover Common Virus Could Be Causing a Type of Alzheimer's
Port strike averted on East and Gulf coasts, in what both sides call ‘win-win agreement’
The low point of Jimmy Carter’s awful presidency
World’s first air taxi that can fly using hydrogen cells and batteries together
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Annexing Parts of Gaza Is the Way to Unleash ‘Hell’ on Hamas
Trump’s Bully Pulpit Diplomacy
Why would Trump want Greenland and the Panama Canal? Here's what's behind U.S. interest.

Wednesday, January 08, 2025

California conflagration is not a natural disaster, but Gavin Newsom’s disaster
With the fires in Southern California exacerbated by a lack of water, it is tim to reup an old piece of mine describing What Israel can teach California about water sustainability
World’s first self-refilling coffee machine extracts 18 cups of water from air daily
The (not quite) definitive guide to the legal construct of “space resources”
SpaceX launch of private Blue Ghost moon lander set for Jan. 15
NASA Wants to Explore the Icy Moons of Jupiter and Saturn With Autonomous Robots
NASA Lays Out Two New Options for Mars Sample Return
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
‘One Big Beautiful Bill’—or Not
Macron Gets Real on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Mark Zuckerberg’s Speech Mea Culpa