Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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“Star City” — the spinoff of the alternate history television series “For All Mankind” — concerns a Soviet-crewed flyby of Venus taking place in the early 1970s. The mission is fraught with Cold War intrigue and Soviet-era paranoia and corruption.
However, many people do not know that NASA seriously considered a similar space mission during the same timeframe.
Saturday, August 08, 2026
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Sunday, August 02, 2026
The miracle of the latest test flight of the SpaceX Starship was not the launch, as spectacular as it always is. The true miracle of the Starship’s 13th flight occurred at the very end.
Saturday, August 01, 2026
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Sunday, July 26, 2026
Recently, Vice President JD Vance appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast for a wide-ranging interview. One of the subjects that came up was space colonies, which is topical, considering the Artemis program and Elon Musk’s dreams of settling Mars.
Recently, Andy Weir, the author of such bestseller science fiction novels as The Martian and Project Hail Mary, announced that he was working on a new book. He did not reveal much about the subject, but hinted that AI would be a plot element. The revelation counts as potential good news for those who believe that the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence constitutes, on the balance, a boon for humankind.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
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Sunday, July 19, 2026
The question of whether or not both or even one of the human landing systems being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin will be ready for the next moon landing in 2028 has raised its ugly head.
Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Sunday, July 12, 2026
During a news briefing about NASA’s latest moon exploration plans, according to Ars Technica, space agency head Jared Isaacman suggested the possibility of sending a spare nuclear-powered Mars rover — an engineering model of the Mars Perseverance rover — to the moon.