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Transterrestrial Musings | Biting Commentary about Infinity…and Beyond!
The hed of this op-ed is misleading. No, you shouldn’t stand as soon as the plane lands; wait until you’ve arrived at the gate. But yes, if you’re on the aisle, you should be preparing yourself and h...
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Space | Transterrestrial Musings
[Update a few minutes later]
On reading through it, this jumped out at me: “The brain strain of designing the car is tiny compared to the brain strain of designing the factory.”
What is more important...
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Cislunar Space | Transterrestrial Musings
Historically, “theater of operations” is a military term naming an area of combat operations. However, I don’t see any reason for the term not to evolve to also refer to some types of areas of operat...
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Space Science | Transterrestrial Musings
Elon can do whatever he wants, but personally, I wouldn’t give NASA a dime to do this. They’ll do it in the most ridiculous, Apollo-like way. The only way I want to see government employees go to Mar...
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Boom | Transterrestrial Musings
Early Global Hawks were built in San Diego, did system checkouts and engine runs in San Diego, then the wing and tails were removed from the fuselage and two long loads were trucked to Edwards – fusel...
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March | 2023 | Transterrestrial Musings
Yes, I always get annoyed at the comparisons between Musk and Bezos, let alone by either of them with Branson, who has wasted vast amounts of other peoples’ money with not much to show for it or any h...