"Using the material and energy resources of space to improve the human condition on Earth."
-Gerard K. O’Neill
Opinion
Why is the org into the “most far flung ideas” the one org pushing for the most important near-term work?
Someone is finally at least talking about starting some kind of Reduced Gravity test hardware! SpaceX? No. Blue Origin? Nope. Boeing+Lockheed=ULA? Nah. ESA? NASA? No and for the umpteenth budget year, No again. China. It's an odd way to start but it might at least be...
Yellow, Grey and Brown
Back during the holiday break, about when a young researcher was looking for overview pointers on closed loops, I came across an Irish government proposal on human waste recycling for crop fertilization. And for the life of me I can't find that now. Going through my...
Nothing new under the sun, alas
Comments on the previous post brought this little item to mind, Gerard K. O'Neill on a why of the Space Studies Institute. The age old dilemma, working on doing real things vs working on all of the facets of getting the funds to...
from the SSI Facebook page
you don't need a facebook account to view the latest SSI posts. just click https://www.facebook.com/SpaceStudiesInstitute and scroll past the nag banners. Question: Are the recent posts "official"? Answer: The facebook posts are for anyone who isn't up to their ears...
Small World
Around Sand Hill Road you see lots of odd books under people's arms. It's an unusual location with the SLAC on one side of the street and the rows of 1980s styled venture capital offices on the other; while both sides are technically tech, the workers of the area tend...
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