Thinking about a business model that would support a new space colony ( Read more... )

The recent earthquake in Haiti highlights several things about the climate warming debate that I have issues with ( Read more... )

Your life is your Garden ( Read more... )

The spectacle of the quote unquote "developing nations" trying to mug the "developed nations" for a cash shakedown at Copenhagen has given me to think about the whole concept of developing vs developed nations. The wording itself makes the unwarranted assumption that all countries are on a rather standard track of progression, that no matter what ( Read more... )

Since early this year, when the Russian Cosmos collided with the Iridium33 satellite and created two huge debris fields spreading around the globe, the issue of orbiting space debris has become openly serious ( Read more... )

ON DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, WANTS, NEEDS ( Read more... )

ON DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, WANTS, NEEDS ( Read more... )

Rethinking space travel ( Read more... )

Today: 227.2 Almost to this week's goal of 227 ( Read more... )

OK, after some interruptions from some storms, and times when I was gone, I re-started the radiation monitoring software, and this week, the average background radiation count for the past hour has been: 11.85 Counts per Minute ( Read more... )