Sorry, it was too good a pun to pass up. Congratulations to Blue Origin on the successful launch and landing of the New Glenn! While some may say “but SpaceX has already done this”, I’ll simply share this classy tweet from Gwen Shotwell: Yes, they have a lot of catching up to do to SpaceX, […]
Read More Congrats to The “LYFT” of Space launchThere’s a pattern we’ve seen before: with fusion vaporware, blockchain-for-everything, “Uber for X,” metaverse land grabs… people never seem to fail to fall for the latest breathless sci-fi sounding bullshit. And now? Orbital hyperscale data centers running on fairy-dust thermal physics. And what makes it maddening is this – it seems the people eating up […]
Read More Why Space Data Centers are BullshitApparently some of the “old guard” of the alt-space community never put down the pitcher of kool-aid. Unfortunately, science shows that repeated gulping of the hopium punch results in an inability to handle even the most basic reading comprehension exercises and the afflicted old guy will do the space equivalent of yelling “get off my […]
Read More Old NEW Spacers and senilityIt’s getting to the point that i should probably just rename the Space Cynic blog the “SpaceX is Awesome” blog…. SpaceX has done it again. Actually, according to this article today from Gizmodo, they’ve done it 4 times in one flight. Specifically, the latest Falcon 9 launch set these records: Falcon 9 rocket re-flown THREE […]
Read More Records were made to be broken…It’s a basic rule of economics that the intersection of the supply and demand curves for a product or service will give you the “market clearing” price. It’s therefore no surprise that if the cost of an item goes down, then the demand for it should increase, assuming normal economic curve profiles. (quick lesson on […]
Read More (Space) Economics 101It’s been 11 years since this post first went up. Hopefully George and the team at Virgin Galactic can crack the code before 2020… i’m still looking forward to buying my ticket (seriously). UPDATE: According to this just published article on Gizmodo, Sir Richard appears to be strongly expecting that White Knight 2 will fly […]
Read More Still waiting for Zarquon…Et tu, NASA? Have you succumbed to the political correctness run amok in the halls of our government? Apparently, the answer is a sad “yes”. This week’s Atlantic has a great essay on the latest lack of leadership chapter at NASA – the “we must dig into the leadership and culture at SpaceX” because, you […]
Read More Space Panties in a BunchThis bit of news came through my email today: We took our first 12 commercial payload customers to space on Mission 7 last week. Whoa. So now we have two officially active commercial players in the RLV industry. Headstones for the old guard are being carved as we speak. #innovation #crrats
Read More Congrats Blue Origin!It’s about that time again… http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/new-experimental-spaceplane/3875765.html I suppose that the the placement of this article on Voice of America is a form of truth in advertising – what better way to teach people English than with fantastical fairy tales..?
Read More Teaching foreigners new American fairy talesWhile still finishing my first cup of coffee, this headline came across my desk today: New Zealand Space Program Could Surpass U.S., Electron Rocket Begins Testing On Monday My first thought was, “Awesome! Middle Earth is getting ROCKETS!” Sadly, what could have otherwise been a good article was mired by […]
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