Peter Hague
@peterrhague
Solutionist. Astrophysics PhD and scientific software engineer. Dad of 2. Let’s colonise the solar system together. Please visit the link below to read my blog:
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SpaceX will literally have rocket landing pads on Mars before we build a new runway at Heathrow. No exaggeration.
The Gaza mob bullying Ed Sheeran is really nasty. I don’t listen to his music, but a lot of people like him and didn’t really want political propaganda at their concert. They didn’t want to see footage of a war (which the Palestinians started, by the way).
Grown ups understand that not everyone in this world is going to agree with you, and you just have to live with that sometimes. You cannot demand total obedience to your particular weird obsession and then throw a tantrum when people don’t want to sign up. That’s cult like behaviour.
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Here is what Starships mass-to-orbit will be doing on the same timescale as these missions, under some pretty conservative assumptions. SpaceX own plans are even more aggressive.
I fear the European plans are not nearly ambitious enough. We need to go further.
Read my analysis:
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The existential risk that really scares me, due to its likelihood and consequences, is an unrecoverable dystopia. One, permanent world government that will never be overthrown.
Space colonisation is a really good hedge against that one.
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I need UK 10 year gilt yields translated into play language. @grok can you map % yields on to “fucked” “proper fucked” “utterly fucked” and “time to buy tinned goods”
Amnesty is on the side of suppressing dissent in the UK.
I think the maniacs who wrote this paper should be arrested for incitement. Not even joking.
