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July 12, 2024 at 6:45 am

Somebody took the blue pill.

mega constellations will destroy our atmosphere.

Col Beausabre: No, I think it better to let Roger hang himself over time, should he decide to comment again.

-Rick

She does an awesome job on the Led Zep Classic “Rain Song”

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere

Just picked up the link to that story today. The link was to an American Thinker article. THAT article provided the above link. It was bigger than Mt Pinatubo.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+bunny+hop&view=detail&mid=ACDD109F1451D06EE6C8ACDD109F1451D06EE6C8&FORM=V

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+water+is+wide&docid=608035243552612377&mid=3AC9CDE06B1951A384E53AC9CDE06B1951A384E5&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

Charles Wainwright: When Relativity Space finally gets close to launch, I will then report it. Right now they have set no launch date, as far as I know.

for your apppearances on John Batchlor

All it took was my 623 word reply and hours of my research. All worth it:)

I do understand the significance of commercial space, and that you are one of the few voices telling that story. Just remember that the ‘chessboard’ determines where federal funds end up, and that has a major effect on Commercial Space. That is why I initially pushed back on your Australian Lunar Rover story, discussed my view on how the National Security State may be spinning the Chinese Hypersonic story, and sent the above two comments expressing my view that the Artemis Accords may be developing into an informal alliance focusing on commercial space, but that also has larger strategic foreign policy goals.

So I hope that ties a nice ribbon bow on my thoughts for your consideration this weekend, and with that I’ll repeat all the relevant links I previously mentioned.

Article written by Capt. Bates ‘America must build a stronger coalition to project its power in Space’:

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/576630-america-must-build-a-stronger-coalition-to-project-its-power-in

The two opinion pieces by Mark Whittington: ‘The new race to the moon: the Artemis Alliance vs. the Sino-Russian Axis’ & ‘Japan is joining the push to return to the moon’:

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/545280-the-new-race-to-the-moon-the-artemis-alliance-vs-the-sino-russian-axis

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/564718-japan-is-joining-the-push-to-return-to-the-moon

Then lastly there is the report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission that details the aggressiveness of the Chineses Space program which is a fusion of Chinese Civilian Space and the CCP controlled Military, and which currently is allied with authoritarian Russia.

https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/China_Space_and_Counterspace_Activities.pdf

Finally I’ll leave you with the verses from one of the hit songs of the musical Hamilton, where Burr gives his view of the famous Compromise of 1790:

“But decisions are happening over dinner
Two Virginians and an immigrant walk into a room
Diametrically opposed
Foes
They emerge with a compromise
Having open doors that were previously closed
Bros
The immigrant emerges with unprecedented financial power
A system he can shape however he wants
The Virginians emerge with the nation’s capital
And here’s the pièce de résistance
No one else was in the room where it happened
The room where it happened
The room where it happened”

‘The new race to the moon: the Artemis Alliance vs. the Sino-Russian Axis’

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/545280-the-new-race-to-the-moon-the-artemis-alliance-vs-the-sino-russian-axis

And

‘Japan is joining the push to return to the moon’

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/564718-japan-is-joining-the-push-to-return-to-the-moon

Finally although you haven’t posted it yet on BtB, good job on your end of week conversation with John Batchelor. I have his Audioboom site bookmarked, and am glad you are now linking to it in your posts.

I’ve read on BtB your take on the “Artemis Accords” characterizing them “as a clever diplomatic work-around of the Outer Space Treaty.” (Quote from your Oct 14th at 8:23 pm comment).
Given the now intensified US competition with China in the Space arena, I am hoping that you may consider revising that opinion since the “Artemis Accords” may be developing into an informal alliance focusing on commercial space.

Besides NASA, the development of the Accords and U.S. relations with those countries who have signed up is handled by the U.S. State Department and U.S. Department of Commerce.

If you have time, to get another perspective please read this weeks article from The Hill ‘America must build a stronger coalition to project its power in Space’.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/576630-america-must-build-a-stronger-coalition-to-project-its-power-in

This is a serious article written by Capt. Bates, who is a planner at Space Operations Command, which is a field command of the Space Force.

Lastly, both the Korea & the Ukraine/Nova Scotia stories start with “The New Colonial Movement” (which you named in 2005).

Perhaps, given that 16 years have passed, if an international space story involves a member country of the Artemis Accords, these stories could start with “The New Artemis Federation” or something similarly catchy. Just an idea to consider.

Enjoy your weekend, and I look forward to hearing your next John Batchelor episodes.

Paul: Sorry, I don’t have plans at the moment to put together a podcast. I don’t have the time nor the equipment.

If someone else came along willing to run it for me, I am sure we could work a deal however.

Francis Rogallo’s invention made the flying wing simple and transportable. I learned to fly on a rogallo. I doubt I would have bothered with a conventional hang glider with an empennage. Too cumbersome. But conventional foot-launched hang gliders have been around a long time. Glenn Curtis required his novice pilots to learn basic maneuvering on them. Jimmy Doolittle had his first crash on one. Volmer Jensen was soaring his hang gliders in ridge lift before WWII.

The dark side of Rogallo’s legacy were the hundreds of deaths in the early years of the hang gliding renaissance he inspired, many from unrecoverable dives to the ground caused by the sail losing its airfoil shape and luffing during an attempted stall recovery. It was not until the rogallo was redesigned with reflex in the later 1970s that hang gliding became much more reliable. The earlier versions of the rogallo became regarded as deathtraps, and yearly fatalities dwindled into the teens worldwide as these were replaced by evolved versions with semi-rigid sails and double surfaces. Today most hang gliding fatalities can be attributed to pilot error

But at least rogallos had simple airframes and could maintain their airfoil shape. The paragliders that began gaining popularity in the early 1990s, often collapsed in turbulence, but that did not deter enthusiasts (for reasons I cannot comprehend). When your article was published in 1998, less than 150 soaring parachutists had died on paragliders. Today that number exceeds 2,000, constantly averaging over 100 deaths per year worldwide. Unlike the early rogallo, even modern paragliders are faced with an apparently unsolvable and inherent safety issue. They cannot hold their airfoil shape in rough air and fall out of the sky.
https://vimeo.com/356610970

Rick Masters: Thank you for the kind words, and the monthly subscription. Both are appreciated far more than you can imagine.

Based on your website, you almost certainly would like one of the articles I wrote for Invention & Technology back in 1998, How to Fly Without a Plane. It told the story of Francis Rogallo and the invention of the hang glider. I got to interview him personally. A most amazing and old-fashioned American.

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Jeff: Sorry about that. The old PSC webpage is gone, and I don’t remember what exact story I was linking to here. Suffice it to say that in my life I have mapped somewhere around 3 to 4 miles of virgin cave passages, places that no one had ever been before.

Waiting eagerly for your return to the John Batchelor show and podcast. Will you be back? Have you ever thought about starting your own podcast? Any suggestions for a good space-related podcast?

Thanks for all you do.

Go Commercial Space!