Sunday, February 27, 2022

Is it time to sell the moon?

"As nations and even private companies prepare to return humans to the moon on a grand scale, the question of how commercial activities can be managed on the lunar surface has become more crucial. One attempt to clarify that question has been published by free-market think tank, the Adam Smith Institute. The proposal, called Space Invaders: Property Rights on the Moon, is an attempt to facilitate private ownership of land on the moon. The paper suggests that private property ownership of parcels of the lunar surface will create wealth on Earth and even alleviate poverty."

White House moves to fight climate ‘denialism’ amid calls to end fossil-fuel crackdown
Red Dawn ('84) #CommissionEarned
Ukraine and Russia: From Civilied Divorce to Uncivil War #CommissionEarned
Ukraine creates international legion recruiting foreigners to fight Russia
Musk says Starlink active in Ukraine as Russian invasion disrupts internet
NASA Selects Futuristic Space Technology Concepts for Early Study
Beto O’Rourke’s Journey from Long Shot to Long Shot
Children of Apollo #CommissionEarned
Elon Musk says SpaceX will rescue ISS if Russia tries to drop it from orbit after threats by Putin’s space chief
Trump tears into Biden as he moves toward 2024 campaign
US, allies to kick certain Russian banks out of SWIFT banking system

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Hybrid battery feeds cyanobacteria with electricity to supercharge photosynthesis
What Matthew McConaughey got wrong about the new space age

Nothing is quite as annoying as a Hollywood star attempting to lecture the masses about public policy. Whether it's Tom Hanks with his “morning in America” pro-Biden ad that left out inflation and supply chain problems, or Matthew McConaughey taking shots at space barons like Elon Musk, entertainment industry virtue-signaling proves how out-of-touch people with tons of money can become living in a leftist cultural bubble.

She Was NASA's Fourth 'Hidden Figure' and the Bible Was the Secret Fuel for This Space Pioneer
Nuclear Fusion: How Excited Should We Be After New Developments?
Biden’s Fleeting Chance to Help Ukraine
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
How to Beat Putin With Natural Gas
America Needs a Bigger Navy
WAR: Russia invades as UN Security Council debates

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Is our space partnership with Russia immune from Earthly conflicts?
Space traveler Hayley Arceneaux writes about her 'Wild Ride'
How the Russia-Ukraine tension might affect the International Space Station
The End of the International Space Station Will Launch a New Era of Chaos in Orbit
NASA's Megarocket Gets Closer to First Launch After Successful Engine Tests
This miniature rocket could be the first NASA craft launched from Mars
A New A.I. Technique Could Accelerate Scientific Discoveries
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Building artificial nerve cells
Containing Russia, Old School
The ’80s Got Their Foreign Policy Back

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

The James Webb telescope could detect aliens by looking for signs of pollution
Brain scan of dying man shows ‘life flashing before their eyes’
These impressive trees can absorb microplastics through their roots
CAPSTONE lunar cubesat mission to launch this spring
The SpaceX Starship is the ocean going caravel of the space age
NASA successfully retests moon rocket core stage engines after fault
Russia responds to European astronauts: We’ll give you independent spaceflight
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
Leave Putin in no doubt: Russia will be economically crippled – and he may be tried for war crimes
Will Canadian Democracy Survive Justin Trudeau?
Manchin’s Climate Subsidy Choice

Sunday, February 20, 2022

When will SpaceX's Starship fly to space?

An unmistakable fact of SpaceX’s Starship, stacked atop the Superheavy rocket, is its immensity. The rocket ship is a gleaming, stainless-steel tower the height of a skyscraper at SpaceX’s South Texas Starbase facility. Its purpose is to deliver 100 metric tons of people and material anywhere in the solar system, either to Earth orbit or to the moon and Mars with refueling. When it flies, it will revolutionize the art and science of space travel just as the ocean-going caravel did sea travel centuries ago.

State Fight: SpaceX brings business to Brownsville, Texas
ECONOMIST MOCKED FOR PROPOSING THAT WE SELL THE MOON
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned
China's Chang'e-4 discovers glass globules on far side of moon
Bill Maher: China Hasn't Triumphed Over The West In The Ways That Really Matter
Justin Trudeau and the Alchemy of Irony

Saturday, February 19, 2022

The Last Supper on the Moon: NASA's 1969 Lunar Voyage, Jesus Christ’s Bloody Death, and the Fantastic Quest to Conquer Inner Space #CommissionEarned
House of the Dragon Wraps Filming, George R. R. Martin Praises the Game of Thrones Spinoff
NASA Selects Three US Universities to Develop Lunar Infrastructure Tech
Asteroids, Hubble rival, and Moon base: China sets out space agenda
Two New Studies Just Outlined The Basics of Building an Interstellar Light Sail
Brains of cosmonauts get ‘rewired’ to adapt to long-term space missions, study finds
Gabriella's Holy War #CommissionEarned
Why global warming is good for us
The Red State Model for a Post-Pandemic Economy
Biden’s Regulators Empower Putin

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Why the Space Force merits respect and an expanded mission

Part of the problem is that, while the Space Force is engaged in an important mission regarding the operation and defense of America’s space assets, none of it is considered newsworthy. Recently the Space Force launched a pair of satellites designed to inspect other satellites in geostationary orbit, an important step for developing situational awareness in space. But that mission pales in comparison to, say, the recent raid that resulted in the death of the head of ISIS.

Why Musk’s biggest space gamble is freaking out his competitors
Electricity Production on the Moon Is in the Hands of Estonians
Russia aims to rekindle moon program with lunar lander launch this July
Why is America Going Back to the Moon #CommissionEarned
SpaceX Flight Ultimately Raised $243M For St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Rocket on crash course with moon does not belong to SpaceX, report says
NASA captures stunning, first of a kind images of Venus' surface

Friday, February 11, 2022

Scientists find a potentially habitable planet orbiting a dying star
Space Force eyes its own version of the metaverse
SpaceX considers shifting Starship testing to Florida

WATCH: Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship Update Event - Livestream

Pap tests could one day tell women if they have breast or ovarian cancer
SpaceX Starship event: Elon Musk talks Mars missions and more in megarocket update
NASA Looks Ahead in 2022: Artemis, X-59, Lunar Exploration, and More
Gabriella's Holy War #CommiaaionEarned
California’s Laughing Rail Stock
Drugs based on next-generation gene editing are moving toward the clinic faster than CRISPR 1.0
NC bio startup raises $15.5M to advance ‘4D’ printing of human organs

Monday, February 07, 2022

Sorry, Candace Owens, but men really did walk on the moon

Candace Owens, the right-leaning populist commentator, is no stranger to controversy. For example, she recently tore into former President Donald Trump for his advocacy of taking coronavirus vaccines, which he helped to come into being thanks to Operation Warp Speed. However, Owens has taken to Twitter and championed an oldie-but-goodie conspiracy theory.

“Now for some light-hearted fun. What’s the one ‘conspiracy theory’ that no matter what anyone says you believe is true. Mine is that the moon landing in 1969 was completely faked. Just nothing about it makes sense. Especially NASA ‘accidentally erasing’ the original footage.”

The fascinating science behind the first human HIV mRNA vaccine trial – what exactly does it entail?
Trump's ambassador to Israel writes Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East #CommissionEarned
Scientists create spinal cord implants that could allow paralysed people to walk
Startup plans to create robotic outpost near the Moon
Artemis 1 and our return to the moon
NASA outlines cost savings from ISS transition
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
How ‘super-enzymes’ that eat plastics could curb our waste problem
Wealth Is Knowledge
Single-Payer Dies Again in California

Sunday, February 06, 2022

Why former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine endorsed a congressional candidate

Recently, former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine endorsed Virginia Republican John Henley for the House of Representatives. Why did Bridenstine, who hewed to a strict, nonpartisan posture when he led the space agency, seemingly dip his toe back into partisan politics? The answer is that Bridenstine, a canny politician, appears to be playing the long game to make sure that space policy is given the attention that it is due in Congress by supporting a man with knowledge and experience in that area.

Terry Fox and the Truckers
Inside Elon Musk and Joe Biden’s ‘feud’ as billionaire CEO accuses president of snubbing Tesla
Why is America Going Back to the Moon #CommissionEarned
New company run by former NASA leader aims to build robotic outpost near the Moon
mRNA shot spawns CAR-T cells in the body to repair heart disease damage
Schumer faces brewing war and progressives ramp up primary threats

Saturday, February 05, 2022

Time Traveler Explains Roseanne Cancellation - THE FUTURE IS DUMB

Here's What Henry Kissinger Thinks About the Future of Artificial Intelligence
The new Jack Reacher show is pretty good so far
The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution #CommissionEarnmd
Israel joins the Artemis Alliance
NASA, SpaceX to Provide Update on Crew-4 Space Station Mission
Rocket Lab expands Colorado facilities, prepares for busy launch year
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned
The alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has begun
Does the human lifespan have a limit?
The Coming Remedy for Ransomware

Friday, February 04, 2022

German scientists to clone and breed GM pigs for human donor hearts
Synthetic Enamel Could Make Teeth Stronger and Smarter
This House Would Populate Mars: The Oxford Union Debate
Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade
NASA hopes James Webb Space Telescope will unlock secrets of 'super-Earths' and hot rocky worlds
NASA Details Plan to Retire ISS in 2030 and Deliberately Crash It Into the Pacific Ocean
Gabriella's Holy War #CommissionEarned
The Falcon 9 may now be the safest rocket ever launched
California’s Free-Market Housing Fix
Lessons of an Antiterror Success Against Islamic State