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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JUST IN: The Pentagon has published a remarkable image of China's secretive Shenlong spaceplane in orbit, captured by a Maxar satellite and featured in its newly released 2026 space threat assessment.
The reusable, uncrewed spacecraft launches aboard a rocket and returns to Earth on a runway, similar to the U.S. military's X-37B.
China has conducted four orbital missions since 2020, demonstrating the ability to deploy and maneuver near other objects in space.
The DIA warns that technologies used for satellite inspection and proximity operations could also support anti-satellite capabilities.
China has disclosed few details about the spacecraft's missions or capabilities.
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My thoughts on the Cowboy Space presentation:
Oh boy, this one was rough. I went in with high hopes and was met with what felt like a prank/skit. It was Shawn Ryan and Baiju Bhatt (CEO) on the panel and it was exclusively buzzwords for investors. It was an exact copy of what everyone was doing and seemed like the whole announcement was made exclusively with AI and no real human input.
His presentation seemed like it was made for children, which I get because most investors don’t know anything about the spaceflight industry to the degree that enthusiasts do, but he ONLY spoke simply with practically no specifics into any systems other than the engine/fuel (will get to that later). He tried to make everything he said like “we will REUSE the rocket!” or “the data center will be in space!” sound groundbreaking, which it isn’t… at all…
He starts off by showing their gas generator test, which was cool, but it was the only hardware they showed. The rest were exclusively AI renders, and bad ones at that. NOTHING lined up. Mind you, the gas generator is a “simple” part to make compared to the rest of a rocket engine compared to the turbo pump and ejector nozzle.
The part that really raised alarm bells was the engine renders, which didn’t line up. For instance, he showed a render of their Clydesdale engine. Cool, engine. It had 2 pumps on it. One render had a single pump, and another had none. So which is it? If none of your renders line up, which is the real one because the engine is what will get you into space to do execute your business model. If you don’t have a good engine, then you’re toast.
They then said that they want to use ammonia based fuel and have it also act as coolant. Cool idea, but why??? The major part about rocketry is to save as much mass as possible, and that’s added/extended hardware that adds mass. You could make a closed loop system a lot simpler and lighter than extending that loop to the fuel tank and having extra fuel left over you won’t need.
Then, the worst part that sealed the deal that it’s an investor scam for me. The disclaimer at the end. I’ve NEVER seen a disclaimer like this at the end of a stream like this. Basically, it said that everything he says is a “forward looking statement”, and then says forward looking statements cant hold them liable for anything. Then, for the information on the slides, it says their numbers can be from 3rd party sources, and that they are not obligated to check those sources, so their information might not even be right.
Now, to top it off, they want to fly in 2028… dawg, you don’t have a building, you have 0.01% of the hardware, no real design, and not even a full presentation, and you wanna fly in 2028. Seriously?…
Overall, this whole thing is a massive red flag to anyone who pays attention to the industry, and seemed like a legit parody. I love the spaceflight industry, and want as many companies to succeed, but this is the most obvious cash grab I’ve ever seen. I’m not an expert by any means, just someone who knows ball so I may get some things wrong.
Please comment your thoughts if I got something wrong or right, or if I missed anything!
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**Medical Tuesday.**
American Doctors are beginning to take note of the replacement - Our Government and Hospitals are saying there are not enough Doctors while at the exact same time removing American Doctors from a system controlled by hospitals and insurance companies.
The cheaper replacement is making their way in the side door while our politicians do nothing.
Did you realize there was an actual organization called "Doctors without jobs"?
@America1stLegal has taken a concrete step that few organizations have been willing to take. In September 2026 it filed a formal petition with the Department of State asking the department to end the long-standing regulatory monopoly that makes the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates the sole sponsor of J-1 physician visas. The petition further asks that a residency position remain unfilled after the primary Match cycle before any J-1 visa can be issued for it.
The stated purpose is simple: American medical graduates should have priority for American residency seats that American taxpayers fund.
Earlier efforts pointed in the same direction. Doctors Without Jobs and Unmatched and Unemployed Doctors of America organized protests, released statements, and argued that United States citizens and lawful permanent residents should not remain unmatched while foreign-trained physicians fill federally supported residency positions.
Those groups were small and lacked the structure of a traditional membership society, yet they named the problem in public at a time when most medical organizations refused to do so.
The pattern is no longer obscure. Trucking saw the same sequence. American drivers were told the work was unwanted, that shortages required foreign labor, and that opposition was merely protectionism. The same language is now applied to medicine. The difference is that a physician cannot simply change routes or trucks. The seat is the license. Once the training pathway is occupied by someone else, the American graduate is permanently sidelined.
Whether the movement grows depends on whether more physicians and patients decide the current arrangement is worth examining a second time. The petition from @America1stLegal is one place to start. The earlier arguments from Doctors Without Jobs and Unmatched and Unemployed Doctors of America are another. The question is whether American medicine will treat its own graduates the way trucking eventually treated its own drivers, or whether the replacement will continue until the pattern is too late to reverse.
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How about no
Governor Newsom on 17 October: "The whole - the system's broken. It's completely unbalanced. And you can't - we can't manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine."
Then within the files, I see very similar language: "The system is broken — and it cannot fix itself."
Does that mean the specific ex-USAID workers we've been tracking are controlling Newsom? No. But as you've seen throughout these files, every individual in the ecosystem belongs to multiple NGOs and alliances. They network constantly. They attend each other's conferences. They form coalitions on similar projects. They give each other feedback. That's how they develop a hive mind.
The proposed methods may differ from group to group, but they are all converging on one goal: America governance must be rewritten from top down, and soon.
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Chapter 2: Meet Big Iron
Our 1 MW satellite design:
• 5 racks of GPUs
• 6 laser links at 1.2 Tb/s each
• About 132 meters across when deployed
• The upper stage becomes the satellite
A deployed span longer than an American football field.
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The Dept of Energy will provide $17.5 billion in loans that will finance the construction of ten AP1000 reactors in the US. Purchases of long-term components (e.g., reactor vessels) may start late this year. Article link in reply.
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Islamists are literally beheading Christians in Nigeria..
I wonder why the activists who care so much about innocent people dying rarely talk about this..
Interesting.
BREAKING: Cowboy Space has unveiled “Big Iron,” an 86-meter rocket designed to transform its upper stage into a massive AI data center in orbit rather than discard it after launch.
Each rocket is designed to deliver over 15,000 kg to orbit, with its upper stage becoming a megawatt-class, solar-powered computing platform carrying five racks of NVIDIA $NVDA Vera Rubin GPUs.
The rocket’s structure would double as a cooling radiator, while its propellant and pressurization systems would help cool the computers and deploy its solar arrays.
Cowboy is also developing nine methane-fueled engines for the first stage, with initial combustion chamber testing completed at NASA’s Stennis Space Center last week.
The company is targeting its first Big Iron launch in 2028, with plans for a constellation of up to 20,000 orbital data centers, subject to FCC approval.
Replace "could" with "will".
Starfish Prime, 1964 did exactly this.
BREAKING: The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) says Russia is developing a satellite designed to carry a nuclear weapon into orbit, potentially threatening thousands of spacecraft simultaneously.
In its newly released 2026 space threat assessment, the DIA warns that a nuclear detonation in orbit could disable or destroy thousands of satellites and create radiation belts lasting years, damaging spacecraft long after the initial explosion.
The threat extends beyond military satellites to GPS, communications, weather forecasting and critical commercial space infrastructure worldwide.
The report does not confirm that Russia has deployed a nuclear weapon in orbit.
Read the Pentagon’s full assessment: dia.mil/Portals/110/Images/N…
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Horrifying footage of the massacre of more than 60 Christians in Ethiopia.
Islamic jihadists invaded a Christian village, set all the churches on fire, and then went from house to house killing entire families.
Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian countries in the world, and now they are enduring this. Simply because followers of one particular religion can’t live in peace.
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Does this possibly mean that Starship V3 won't deliver 100 tons to LEO?
Has anyone done the math with the new numbers?
Raptor 3 isn't a 280-ton engine. Not reliably.
Musk today: "We can only reliably get to around 230 t-F with Raptor 3."
That's Raptor 2's thrust number. SpaceX's own V3 spec says 250.
Then the target: Raptor 4 = 300 tf at sea level, "hopefully about the same mass."
So the real step isn't +7%. It's about +30% over what Raptor 3 actually holds today.
Raptor 3 got lighter and simpler. Raptor 4 has to deliver the thrust.
Demonstrated: ~230 tf reliable. Target: 300 tf at the same mass. The gap is the story.
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the crazy bastard is doing it, amazing. also there's nothing really crazy about it, you can just do things.
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More money, more time and flying less will not make spaceflight safer or make us more effective at achieving our objectives.
We are done defending the status quo. We are not going to compromise NASA’s effectiveness or capability trying to appease every constituency and, in the process, satisfy no one.
We are here for the mission, focused on executing @POTUS’ national space policy, achieving the objectives entrusted to us and delivering the kind of world-changing headlines worthy of America’s space program.
Yep
For 50 years Microsoft ran the one to millions, write once, infinite perfect free instant copies playbook better than anyone. They made hundreds of billions while commodifying the hardware (!) and bringing usable computers to billions at a reasonable price.
SaaS was but a poor echo of the original idea, that no matter how much software you have you'll always want more, it's impossible to saturate demand, and software is built by thousands of nerds on good salaries in buildings far away.
Today people still need operating systems but it's clear where the puck is going. Computers emitting a stream of bits that mutate the world, and in some cases enter our sensory system. Intermediate layers gone, the user relationship disintermediated, growth no longer bottlenecked by a finite number of slow sleepy humans with credit cards requiring aggregators to deliver them to dopamine slop.
Demand is saturated, software production has gone vertical, all of Microsoft's in house process power and expertise has been leapfrogged. Microsoft has adapted before and no doubt they will try here but I'm old enough to remember when Microsoft nearly acquired OpenAI during The Blip.