I do wonder at what point some states decide to refocus on fixing their own issues internally rather than trying to nationalize their preferred solutions?
While I live in Maryland at the moment, it is not my preferred model. But it did find a solution to its desire to encapsulate some of its land as a historical agricultural preserve. It started out trying to do it unconstitutionally but eventually gave up and found a solution that worked without Federal help.
I think we would all be better off if we acted more like a confederation than one single polity.
While I live in Maryland at the moment, it is not my preferred model. But it did find a solution to its desire to encapsulate some of its land as a historical agricultural preserve. It started out trying to do it unconstitutionally but eventually gave up and found a solution that worked without Federal help.
I think we would all be better off if we acted more like a confederation than one single polity.
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I am starting to worry that YouTube's algorithms are creating near hysteria within our elderly populations. Who else is getting calls from their parents about an impending global disaster that requires hording food and water for at least a month?
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I would love to see a poll asking whether coming down from the trees and walking upright was a mistake.
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Michael Mealling retweeted
The way we avoid this is by focusing on the Moon as a place for economic development and industrialization, not flags-and-footprints. China is going to the Moon to extend their hegemony across the Space Lines of Communication and we must take that seriously.
I support spending however many taxpayer dollars are necessary to avoid this scenario in 2029
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Dare to do the hard thing. It's contagious.
When we dare to do hard things, that might just change the world, the mark we leave has the opportunity to stretch much further than we may ever get to know.
The story below is likely one of hundreds of similar ones from people that the Made In Space team and I will never hear from.
Today even, at the Smithsonian a young boy in 6th grade came up to us to say he learned about our mission in class and that it had inspired him in math and science and entrepreneurship. His mom had brought him to the museum on his day off from school not knowing that he would meet us.
Here is the message I just received.
Congratulations on having the 1st 3d printer in space AND NOW, having the unit in the Smithsonian!! Back in 2013, I watched your 2012 TED talk and was blown away by the concept of insitu manufacturing and your 3d printer on the ISS!! I was not/am not an engineer, nor a scientist, nor an inventor, nor an entrepreneur. I’m a housewife and have had various jobs over the years; but your vision and logic inspired me to undertake building my own 3d printer from kit parts and open source software and to believe that anyone can become an insitu “manufacturer”…whether in space or in the spare room in my house! I would not have thought it was even possible for me if I hadn’t seen that TED Talk. Thank you, congrats, and keep going!!
The level of humility I feel reading this is beyond words. I am so proud of the team and the honor to have been able to be a part of that with them.
To all my fellow builders, know that what you do truly touches people. It inspires them. You may never hear their stories but your work has a compounding impact on the world in ways that you may never truly understand.
And don’t forget the power of storytelling in your process. You absolutely must use story to help bring everyone else along with you into the future.
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Picard's world would not exist without Kirk's and Kirk knew that he was fighting for a world that could allow Picard's to exist.
Fight for the future you will never see.
Plant that tree under whose shade you will never sit.
Fight for the future you will never see.
Plant that tree under whose shade you will never sit.
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I'm 57, so I remember the Cold War and the period after the fall of the wall and the Soviet Union's collapse. The common theme sounded like communism, but it was always a Moscow-centered East Slavic insecurity dating back to 800 AD that drives their need for hegemonic revenge.
Giving Russia what it wants in Ukraine isn't going to satisfy them. Ukraine is just an appetizer. It wants all of Europe as vassals, and then it will wash, rinse, and repeat until it controls the planet or someone stops it.
Giving Russia what it wants in Ukraine isn't going to satisfy them. Ukraine is just an appetizer. It wants all of Europe as vassals, and then it will wash, rinse, and repeat until it controls the planet or someone stops it.
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How much of our current political debate is based on nostalgia for a time and situation that never really existed?
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Michael Mealling retweeted
You're right. Strictly defined as permanent full takeovers of solvent, healthy private firms (not temporary seizures, distressed/bankrupt entities, unprofitable lines, or compensated asset purchases), the number is zero across US history. Fifth Amendment constraints and norms made them nonexistent. The prior examples don't meet that bar.
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Peter Koch, editor and publisher of the long-running Moon Miner's Manifesto, passed away on October 8. He was 88.
Peter advocated for developing and settling the Moon for most of his life. Whether through the NSS or the Moon Society, which he helped create, Peter held the knowledge, lore, and spirit that kept it all going.
He will be sadly missed.
nss.org/remembering-pe…
Peter advocated for developing and settling the Moon for most of his life. Whether through the NSS or the Moon Society, which he helped create, Peter held the knowledge, lore, and spirit that kept it all going.
He will be sadly missed.
nss.org/remembering-pe…
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"The actual issue is that...is [plain cheese pizza] even worthwhile? There is no environmental sound argument, no economic sound argument, not even a sound [personal taste] argument It's all vibes and stuff, from a weird utopian vision from a bygone era..."
I've never understood the point of posting your personal taste or interest preferences on social media in the form of attempting to dunk on others who don't share that personal preference.
I've never understood the point of posting your personal taste or interest preferences on social media in the form of attempting to dunk on others who don't share that personal preference.
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"AI has discovered critical security vulnerabilities in PHP"...
PHP itself is a critical security vulnerability. It can't be fixed, so just stop using it. Burn it to the ground and drop the ashes into the Mariana Trench so no one can ever rediscover it.
PHP itself is a critical security vulnerability. It can't be fixed, so just stop using it. Burn it to the ground and drop the ashes into the Mariana Trench so no one can ever rediscover it.
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There is a new form of the anti-datacenter reaction that isn't about data centers. It's about Buc-ee's. People are now talking about moratoriums preventing large convenience/fuel stores. The common denominator is change and our politics and systems don't know how to deal with a community, market segment, or constituency that wants, even craves, stasis. How do we accommodate those who want stasis AND those who want growth and change in the same country?
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"There is something wonderfully rascally about homo sapiens, some bit of scrappiness that has kept us alive all these years. To call this quality “intelligence” is to underrate it. It’s more like being a huge pain in the ass to the universe, and to all the forces within it that wish us dead."
experimental-history.com/p/claude-dont-…
experimental-history.com/p/claude-dont-…
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The House @FinancialCmte and Senate finance committees should hold hearings on why stock share transfers are so hard and look for ways to modernize. The SpaceX transfer situation shows how completely antiquated some parts of our financial systems are.
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So far I see no significant changes in the final CLD RFP.
To paraphrase @rookisaacman , this is a job for Commerce!
To paraphrase @rookisaacman , this is a job for Commerce!
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"Novelty is not a regulatory gap"
spacenews.com/the-u-s-alread…
As a founder and GP at Starbridge Venture Capital, I spend a great deal of time looking at the long-term effects of space policy (both intentional and unintentional), and this issue has been brewing for a long time. I am still amazed that serious people read "authorize and supervise" in the OST to mean whatever they personally think it means. The treaties never defined those two terms because they knew it would never pass if they did.
Our nation, most of the West, and international law follow the "general permission" or Lotus principle: "that which is not explicitly forbidden is allowed." Those who read their own interpretation into intentionally undefined terms would create a positive legal regime where everything is forbidden unless explicitly allowed. That is un-American.
I have no issue with a voluntary informational mechanism within OSC, but I fear, as we saw during the last administration, an authorization regime hidden inside an opaque interagency process. That is just wrong.
Any limits on authorization MUST come from specific, limited congressional legislation, not arbitrary bureaucrats.
spacenews.com/the-u-s-alread…
As a founder and GP at Starbridge Venture Capital, I spend a great deal of time looking at the long-term effects of space policy (both intentional and unintentional), and this issue has been brewing for a long time. I am still amazed that serious people read "authorize and supervise" in the OST to mean whatever they personally think it means. The treaties never defined those two terms because they knew it would never pass if they did.
Our nation, most of the West, and international law follow the "general permission" or Lotus principle: "that which is not explicitly forbidden is allowed." Those who read their own interpretation into intentionally undefined terms would create a positive legal regime where everything is forbidden unless explicitly allowed. That is un-American.
I have no issue with a voluntary informational mechanism within OSC, but I fear, as we saw during the last administration, an authorization regime hidden inside an opaque interagency process. That is just wrong.
Any limits on authorization MUST come from specific, limited congressional legislation, not arbitrary bureaucrats.
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