Hello folks. Pull that seat over here and park by the fire. I want to muse about the various ideas and interests that cross my scattered mind. I hope you'll give me feedback, in the way of comments on the page, on the things we talk about around the fire. It's not a formal counsel, but everyone will get his or her say nonetheless.
Did anyone hear about the NASA probe at Jupiter? They're letting the public suggest where to point the camera to view interesting spots (pun intended) on the biggest planet in our Solar System. That's neat. Any takers? Go to the NASA web page and look it up.
Things are moving pretty quickly in space today. There are many private companies launching spacecraft, and not just for governments. There's a hotel being built by Bigelow Aerospace, sort of an orbital Budget Suites. Musk has his Dragon rockets and lots of competition too. There's even a consortium for mining asteroids.
When I was a child, I read lots of science fiction. The writers of the 1950s through the 1980s all predicted there would be space habitats and colonies on the moon and Mars by now. It may not have already happened, but it's coming soon. Frankly I'm excited by the advance of private space exploration. I feel it may be the best thing to happen to Earth if humans all went up there. What do you think?
There are also satellites going up to capture the trash that is being dumped by all those research vessels. Bad, bad to not cart back our trash. It is similar to needing to find dumping grounds for our nuclear waste on earth. Or using the oceans to dump trash.
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