#mars

We talk about Starlink and Starmind as if Earth is the goal - what if it's not. Sure, everything Elon does has a benefit on Earth, but weigh that against one of his key life goals - a self-sustaining colony

So the question of the day is

Where on Earth would you actually stand up a Mars colony sim? Not a two-week habitat stay. A real base you add to every two years, the same cadence a Starship wave would use. I have been looking at

“I am calling it: First human landing on Mars: 21 November 2033.” Parent post: 48 hours later, the call still stands. First human landing on Mars: 21 November 2033, 01:00 UTC. CSD 3819.0300. Countdown

Today in Space History - Breath of a Red World 🚀 Stardate 1916.2080 (SEPTEMBER 17, 1997) Mars Global Surveyor slipped into the thin upper air of the red planet, letting atmospheric drag slowly circularize

Is the Moon just a Mars sistraction?

A lot of people say going to the Moon makes Mars easier. It doesn’t. Not automatically. Not the way that sentence usually gets used. There are actually two claims tangled together. One: the Moon as a waypoint

KiwiThinker's log, Coordinated Stardate 3439.0622. This clock has a proper name now. It was just Stardate. It had a problem. People hear it and think TNG. Five digits, a season code, a decimal that means

A compilation of my posts about Elon Musk and Mars.

I looked at SPCX [Ch] on June 18th, June 24th, July 11th & July 20th 2026. SPCX reached $201.80 on June 16th 2026 shortly after going public, but tumbled all the way down to $108.27 USD on August 5th

The Path to Mars Independence

I looked at SPCX [Ch] on June 18th, June 24th, and July 11th & July 20th 2026. Finally on August 4th 2026 I reached my Wealth Savings goal and then bought my first stock, a SPCX! This means I finally

In order to examine how being in outer space impacts human health, astronauts Nichole Ayers (NASA) and Takuya Onishi (JAXA) take blood samples on the International Space Station (ISS). Changes in physiological

Source Finally finally, things start to blow and get really dangerous enough that nobody can hide behind speeches about freedom or survival, there are no excuses, there are no politics or words that can

Source The slow grind keeps going, for me has been Cape Fear and FOMK S05, they both good in their own ways its just that I fall behind with other stuff in real life but dont want to stop half way, but

I looked at SPCX [Ch] on June 18th & June 24th, and July 11th 2026. Lots has been happening with SpaceX, their stock IPO is not even the biggest news. In late June, they announced a space-frisbee style

Source Open Source finally gives this season a problem big enough to hit everybody on Mars at once and thats why it works so much better than another hour built around one secret or one argument between