March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... of the Golidlocks zone. This is why only a little bit of carbon dioxide generated by human industry is causing problems. ... Earth - and maybe pull it upward A shade parasol, established a bit sunward of the L1 Lagrangian point, ~1.5 X 109 m sun-ward ...
January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
...an idea to see if it’s good is to think about it for a bit, and then present it to others I think, generally, ideas are a ...an idea to see if it’s good is to think about it for a bit, and then present it to others. That takes courage and skill and a...
March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
... silicon heart / Warmed to the sight of a billion candles burning / Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning.” I understand the message, of course. It’s a bit cheesy and self-congratulatory as far as the Western perspective goes, but the song was also written...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
...like military field rations. But occasionally you will get a bit of fresh food, when they send up a cargo vehicle...We also had two Dragons - US vehicles which are a bit smaller but capable of re-entering through the atmosphere without getting destroyed...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
...case for, eg, the economic network). Let me expand a little bit on these networks and do what I promised to do, namely to ..., in art, in all forms of interactions between humans? To be a bit more specific, is there such a thing as a ‘grand’ purpose, a...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
...to achieve [their] aggressive price goals”, and that there exists a bit of “un-reality on what it takes to do space launch… but ...that some smallsat providers have been willing to pay a bit more to gain operational control and more schedule assurance ...
