50 years ago high minded people said, forget space, fix the earth. That didn't work. Now its our turn, let us develop the space economy to fix the Earth.
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There is a choice before us, this future, or one of prosperity through the economic development of the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt.
Choose wisely.
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If the United States had executed on president Nixon’s “project independence”, announced in response to the Arab oil embargo, of building 1,000 nuclear plants by the year 2000, we would have a fully decarbonized power infrastructure today.
It was opposed by environmentalists.
Georgia Power just brought two new nuclear reactors online.
Together, they will:
‣ run for 60-80 years
‣ power 500,000 homes
‣ generate $700 million in revenue per year
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That's human history. The Bushmen would say the same thing about the Bantu, the Persian about the Egyptian, most of the world, from the viewpoint of Ghenghis Khan.
Making all history about White Europeans is diametrically opposite of your call for truth in science.
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Dear @JeffBezos In 2003 when you, myself, and Walt Anderson sat down for breakfast in Seattle, we conveyed to you our greatest concern, which was that rich people in the space arena would cause more harm than good. I had the same talk with Elon. You both promised to do right.
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The Department of Defense has stated that SpaceX and SpaceX related companies have saved the government over $20 billion dollars compared to similar contracts to Boeing or other defense contractors.
You know this, yet you still put this out there.
Why?
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1. We gave the store away for cheap goods.
2. VC's in Silicon Valley thought hardware was anathema.
3. 1970's draconian environmentalism pushed our steel industry first to Japan, then China.
4. Chinese economic warfare under the guise of free trade.
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1. Why will the costs skyrocket?
Bad design of the ACA.
2. Who has the highest cost healthcare in the world?
Americans do.
3. Solution?
Repeal the ACA.
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Question.
Why are those children starving?
Answer.
Hamas refuses to lay down their arms.
End of story.
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Buying an NFL team, suing NASA because you and your team made a mistake in their bid, and working to stop fellow travelers from making this happen, is against everything that you believed in when you were at Princeton in your SEDS chapter. Please stop it.
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for the 21st century.
Unless you change course, have a change of heart, admit that you screwed up, and move to do the right thing, we all, including all of our space dreams, is going to suffer.
There is no one to do this but you Jeff. We are asking you to do it.
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Well, its over.
Our ARMAS-Moon sensor was able to get data throughout the cislunar transit period and recover most of it. We took data in lunar orbit but mission rules precluded us getting our data.
We got no data on the surface.
However, for the rest of our lives, when we look up at the Moon, something we built, is there.
intuitivemachines.com/im-2
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You promised to exert every means to do things right, to do everything possible to open the space frontier, as you and I consider ourselves "Gerry's kids". Elon has kept that promise. You have not. Please quit listening to those people who want to to act like a rich person.
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Building 100 nuclear plants will save a billion tons of CO2 per year.
Building 1,000 as Richard Nixon proposed under "Project Independence" would make the American power grid carbon free for 4/5ths of a century, until we can get fusion working.
And you can enjoy your grandkids.
I would love to see opinions on this research which was published in Environmental Research Letters.
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Not only has the good will that Blue Origin had painstakingly built for almost 20 years been destroyed, the lack of progress in your engines is endangering national security by not delivering hardware to United Launch Alliance.
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Then support nuclear power.
There is no such thing as "renewable energy" as defined as solar and wind power.
Without oil and without nuclear power, civilization AT BEST, regresses to the Roman Empire level of civilization.
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This is a picture of a Roman boiler, taken in 1896 from a Villa north of Pompeii.
We were so damn close to industrialization in the Roman Empire.
Just think where we would be had that happened.
The moral of the story is that progress is not always upwards.
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There is no such thing as "belief in science".
I have an engineering physics degree and I have worked in science related fields for decades.
Science is a process for learning truth about the material world, nothing more, nothing less.
It is not a "belief system"
"Stop giving power to people who don't believe in science or worse than that, pretend they don't believe in climate change for their own self-interest." Harrison Ford
There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #biodiversity #GreenNewDeal #dumptrump
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There is no such thing as "renewable" energy other than trees and direct sunlight. Any technology like wind and solar that requires a global industrial infrastructure for its manufacture, distribution, and replacement, is not renewable. Opposing nuclear power is anti-climate.
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I agree with your premise. That does not negate the fact that it was the environmental movement that virtually halted American nuclear power development.
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The entertainment community going political has to be one of the most colossal mistakes of all time.
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We have made amazing progress in the last 30 years, against amazing odds. Bringing private finance into this realm was our goal in the Space Frontier Foundation and the National Space Society. Many people spent their lives in this syssiphian task.
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I don't think that you understand how thin the thread of our progress is, and how easy it would be for the powers that be to reverse our progress in the government from the left and right to support what is truly the solution to climate change and other dire societal needs...
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I can see where caring for others, truth, wisdom, and the search for higher meaning are foreign concepts to you people these days.
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We can go fully nuclear for $15 trillion.
U.S. Treasury @SecYellen announced that transitioning to a low-carbon global economy will require $78 trillion in financing by 2050. readlion.com/biden-admin-pro…
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Looking at what happened after the "bombing" I am seriously doubtful of the circumstances thereof.
I have seen the Georgia Guidestones up close and it is not about rebuilding society, it is about REDUCING humanity to 500 million souls. That is a 92% culling.
THAT is wrong.
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They lived to maybe 35 years old. Had no clean water. starved quite often. Had zero medical care. Were owned by the local lord, were conscripted on a moments notice for war.
Do you seriously think that today is worse?
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It is my firm opinion that this may represent a turning point in human history. @elonmusk in the 24th century will be as famous as Zefram Cochrane.
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No.
The 1960 Supreme Court decision "Flemming vs Nestor" definitively stated that Social Security is NOT an annuity. It is general tax revenue that the government can do what it wants with.
Your president, LBJ, took the money.
From the SS website.
ssa.gov/history/nestor.html
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The only chart that matters in civilization.
Energy = prosperity...
Anyone who says otherwise is lying...
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I am a product of such a union. My mother always loved me unconditionally and I loved her. I did not figure out what happened until I was a teenager and it really messed me up for a while.
You did the right thing, your love is pure, be happy in your joy.
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A person's healthcare should not be predicated on take someone else's money to pay for it.
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And then there is this.... This vain fellow required two brushings per day to keep his fur well kept. He was the most love in the world to us, and the greatest terror to all other cats in the world, except his sister.
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What the hell are these young upper class white kids doing this for? It ain't for the cause, that's for sure.
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This is astonishing. Sunset on Mars today.
Wow, just wow...
Community note
This is not a photograph of Mars, it's an illustration by Science Photo Library, a source of science and medicine stock images and video.
sciencephoto.com/media/980779/v…
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Take that moon deniers
Beautiful image by the Indian Space Agency of the Apollo 12 landing site, with footprints to the Surveyor robotic craft. Love the sharp shadows! @ISRO
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This is just one example of what we lost when we killed Apollo. It was proposed to do one AES mission with the last two flight Saturn V's, landing at the north pole for two weeks. This was an epic abandonment of the future, of us, but we have the chance to turn that around.
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Yea, that is why Reagan won 525 Electoral votes in 1984.
Do you people ever do self examination?
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You left out Gates $50m. You left out Lauren Powell Jobs, you left out Soros, you left out a raft of people throwing money at your side.
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Your presumption is that this is the only form of philanthropy that is worthy.
What we do have is the Elon Musk Starlink constellation, which is allowing millions around the world access to the Internet not possible otherwise.
We do have the Elon Musk Falcon 9 that turned the USA from a has been in global launch, to the leader..
We also have the Elon Musk Starship, which will make humanity multi planetary and enable that Star Trek future that you portrayed.
I think that your premise is false Tim.
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Can’t their parents pay for their kid’s food?
Why is this the responsibility of the state?
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I want to say something publicly in support of @elonmusk today. I have known him since the beginning of SpaceX and just want you to know that we in the space community support you and wish the best for you today.
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If they are the best experts at NIH why did they fund gain of function research in China when it was unethical here? Why then, through lack of oversight, did the Wuhan Institute of Virology allow that gain of function product to escape into the environment, killing millions?
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This is because the purchaser lives in an area with salt on the roads and did not pay to get the undercoating and now whines about it.
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You people have absolutely no idea of what you opine about.
I mean seriously.
Can you just hate yourselves rather than everyone else?
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Damn the stupid here is beyond belief.
Ever read about primitive tribes?
Rampant murder, slavery, incest, you know all the fun things that Pol Pot, also a communist, liked.
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The USA led in the 1960's and 70's. Nixon's "Project Independence" would have built 1,000 reactors by the year 2000.
It was opposed by environmentalists.
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What part of "illegal" don't you get?
no one is "smearing" legal immigrants..
See how the old coot twists language?
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You know, it kind of pisses me off that SLS is branding itself as the most powerful ever as its throw weight beyond LEO is just a bit over half that of the Saturn V.
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All of us are indigenous.
What the hell is an "indigenous agenda"
Science is science, not some group's agenda.
No wonder science is in trouble...
Shame on you nature.
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This is why I have always said that A-10’s are far more valuable to Ukraine than F-16’s.
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Mosquito LARVE are a huge food source for young fish!!
You really need to just shut up about this subject.
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The Space Shuttle Road Map by the Von Braun team, circa 1970.... From Dave Christensen's archives...
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And yet the editor of the most influential medical journal (The Lancet) has stated that as much as half the medical research today is false or fraudulent.
Your lack of interdisciplinary rigor and self correction has led us to this state.
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Informed sources are saying that NASA just got a big ISRU related budget cut, killing ongoing projects.
@SciGuySpace
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340,000 white men gave their blood and their lives to secure your ancestors release from slavery.
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This is the burn statement of the year...
“Twitter is the place where people who don’t read books come to argue with those that write them”
Some of these replies to Jonathan McDowell 🤦♂️
“Twitter is the place where people who don’t read books come to argue with those that write them”
#SpaceX #Tesla #ELON
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Considering that for decades NATO did not spend for defense what the NATO treaty required, and relied on the USA for defense spending while bragging about their wonderful social benefits....
No.
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Nuclear for the win.
🇫🇷 FRANCE: 67g CO2/kWh 🟢 using 72% Nuclear, 12% Hydro and 10% Gas.
🇩🇪 GERMANY: 573g CO2/kWh 🔴 using 33% Coal, 33% Gas and 11% Biomass.
Provided by @ElectricityMaps, data is about live consumption for the past hour as of 18/01/25 07:33 Berlin's time.
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No, they did not. This is a fantasy of the left.
LBJ in April of 1968 killed production of the Saturn V.
Nixon did NOT propose to cancel Apollo 16 and 17.
This is the letter from OMB head Caspar Weinburger on this subject in 1972.
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What the hell are you talking about a void of growing up there?
It was great to grow up in a community like this.
You want to stuff people into sardine cans and have them dependent on the government.
No thanks.
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You were saying?
The federal government pays more than half the bill for California medical insurance.
wclp.org/california-becomes-…
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In Apollo, Boeing built the 1st stage, the 2nd stage by North American Aviation, the3rd by Douglas, the LM by Grumman, the CSM by North American. For 50 years you and your party have underfunded space. If you don't want them there first, increase NASA budget to $40 billion/year.
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1. Yes
2. In high school, in Alabama in the 1970’s during racial troubles students with pickup trucks with one or multiple shotguns or rifles clearly visible. Never heard of one used for anything but hunting after school.
Not even a threat.
We were not stupid.
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This is what NASA was going to do with Apollo 20 in 1973.
Our future was stolen from us.
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I just had a launch vehicle realization.
The Saturn V with the uprated F1A engine, the J2S Second stage engine and the NERVA third stage, would have had as much throw weight to Trans Lunar Injection, as the Starship has to Low Earth Orbit.
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How about politicians being stupid? That is probably the biggest liability that we have in the world today.
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Quit lying.
Arrested for assault and battery.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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