Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
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Much history has occurred between the last time humans went to the moon and the next time they will. The Soviet Union fell into ruin. The terror attack on 9/11 happened, sparking a decades-long global war on terror. The AIDS and the COVID pandemics took tens of millions of lives.
But three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s nearest neighbor.
Saturday, February 07, 2026
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Recently, Iran launched three Earth observation satellites as part of a ride-share arrangement on a Russian Soyuz rocket. The mission was the latest for the Iranian space program, ostensibly civilian but with a decidedly military component.
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On the morning of Jan. 17, the Artemis II stack, the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft, started its long journey to the moon on top of a crawler from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B. The first leg of the voyage took about 12 hours.
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Recently, Ars Technica reported that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced that they would finance, out of their own pocket, a number of new observatories, including a space telescope dubbed Lazuli. Lazuli will be a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope that is due to end its operational life in the early 2030s.
Saturday, January 17, 2026
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More: Scott Adams left Behind an impressive body of work. #CommissionEarned
Monday, January 12, 2026
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Recently, Turkiye Today reported that Turkey is building a space port in Somalia. Two questions come to mind: Why a space port? And why Somalia?