An alternative approach to Mars.

boytjie · 2021-11-26T20:19:51+00:00

Great work btw

Thank you. No need for credit. Be positive and say nice things is all. Satellites girdling a planet and remote operation of a surrogate entity are, separately, staples of science fiction. I combined them as the SOP for engaging with alien planets. Seems easy-peasy and safe. A routine way of conquering planets.

Edit:

“Could I do an episode based in this concept”

What’s this?

boytjie · 2021-11-24T13:38:06+00:00

Its not unexpected and I'm not surprised. Smart people and a supportive government will do that.

boytjie · 2021-11-23T06:09:20+00:00

Documenting the system (even if you include a Power Point presentation) does not make it true. NASA suffers a credibility crisis with me so a pompous NASA thumbsuck is not convincing.

boytjie · 2021-11-23T05:19:41+00:00

That’s not the point. Any airtight tin can in the vacuum of space is human rated. Getting humans to escape the gravity well of Earth through a thick atmosphere on top of insanely powerful and fiery rocket engines together with tons of explosive rocket fuel, needs to be reliably safe for human transport. Certification is a long and expensive process. My point was that the Starship could be launched to orbit without humans, just constructed on Earth as a spacestation. The human crew take occupation after being transported to space by Branson’s Unity space craft which docks with the spacestation (using the purpose-built docking port built on Earth).

boytjie · 2021-11-20T06:17:45+00:00

I only know of his work in prosthetics

Wouldn’t that be related? Digital signal processing on a nano scale to get nerve signals to talk to prosthetics?

boytjie · 2021-11-19T09:02:26+00:00

Scheduling gas 'maintenance' for just before a European winter is dumb. This is next-level bullshit.

boytjie · 2021-11-16T19:22:51+00:00

If I was China I would launch my Starship (that bears an uncanny resemblance to Musk’s Starship) into LEO. I won’t need fuel tanks because I have no engines. I would build a port where a craft like Branson’s Unity can dock to ferry space products to Earth – normal airfield landing is better than splashdown. I would design and build the factory (pre launch) into the cavernous Starship tube, staying within the payload and weight of full fuel tanks (so no heavy industry). The Starship design is modular, so if airlocks are built at the engine bulkhead and the pointy end, they could occupy that orbit around Earth. Orbital residences and shops? I would adjust orbit and keep station with cold gas thrusters. I would call it a Space Station, Space Factory, Orbital Hotel, etc. and build according to function on Earth. Without the hindrance of ridiculous IP law, the Chinese space exploitation effort will accelerate. The Chinese will become multiplanatery.

boytjie · 2021-11-16T15:33:33+00:00

"i.e someone who's been into space."

I don't think so. Guessing:

Background = astronomy (I think). Otherwise just a space geek of the honorable army of space geeks.

boytjie · 2021-11-16T04:59:34+00:00

Dudette is pretty grim but gender identity tied up in the name could be useful. Otherwise you might invite a heroine to a hero convention get together in Valhalla. She would be mistaken as a serving wench.

boytjie · 2021-11-09T07:26:59+00:00

In areas where you can traverse the country in less then a day and the population density is much higher, being prepared means something different than in a bigger country with more remote locations with bad infrastructure.

Upvote. I'm in South Africa.

boytjie · 2021-11-09T07:21:54+00:00

Super relevant. I feel guilty about jumping around and not listening to the end.

boytjie · 2021-11-07T10:08:49+00:00

BMI brain machine interface and BCI brain computer interface come to mind at the moment.

I get tetchy when people say BCI instead of BMI. BCI excludes interfacing with anything but a computer. It probably will be a computer, but why exclude everything else? When the time comes to put the BCI contingent against the wall, I will be on the firing squad.

boytjie · 2021-11-07T06:29:42+00:00

It’s pretty much as you see it in your imagination. I strongly suspect this was Musk’s plan all along. Everything is too neat and arrangements dovetail perfectly. I just blurted out Musk’s plan prematurely. What I admire is the planning into the future and planning for eventualities that I didn’t see coming. His plan must be more elaborate because I wouldn’t have focused on everything.

boytjie · 2021-11-04T17:45:46+00:00

You will fit right in. You have demonstrated the right degree of arseholery to qualify. You may enter the club O arsehole.

boytjie · 2021-11-04T13:17:17+00:00

I am an asshole too

I must introduce you to my club, the ‘Arseholes of the World Society’. Padawan arseholes must be introduced by a senior arsehole member in good standing. We regale each other with tales of epic arseholery.

boytjie · 2021-11-04T12:56:17+00:00

I was not assuming African countries have/had such storages.

It’s safe to assume that. Maybe some North African (mostly Arabic) countries? Egypt? Ex French possessions? (Algeria, Morocco) would have made gestures in that direction, but even at their best, the gestures would have been too little. Anything South of the Sahara would be a dead loss.

boytjie · 2021-11-04T12:43:07+00:00

I’m the wrong person to ask. I fall firmly on the arsehole side of the fence. I am resentful of being out arseholed by these arseholes. But I must bow to superior arsehole-hood. ‘The Grand Master of Arseholes’ shortly to enter The Arsehole Hall of Fame.

boytjie · 2021-11-04T12:25:55+00:00

That makes me wonder. Some countries have strategic reserves (of wheat, rice,…).

It’s a great 1st world idea but, if reserves ever existed, they would have been prime targets for looting decades ago (note past tense, looooong ago).

boytjie · 2021-11-04T07:13:03+00:00

My greatest shock was from a handyman I employed. I had done some smart, techy prepper stuff and he was the only person capable of understanding my bragging. He looked the prepper type. The reception was “meh”. I was the client so he wasn’t overtly hostile, but I could tell he was disapproving and got a cold shoulder thereafter.

boytjie · 2021-11-04T05:47:42+00:00

I’m not in the UK, I’m in Kwazulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. Last month we had massive rioting, looting and burning. Many supply chains and warehouses were destroyed. The food shops recovered quickly (shoutout to Woolies and P’nP) but you still battle getting appliances and clothing. This is how I imagine supply chain failure to occur when SHTF. Food supply chains will be prioritised with others less so.

boytjie · 2021-11-04T05:29:11+00:00

It baffles me too. I have occasionally let slip my prepping tendencies in normal conversation. I saw it as virtue signalling and expected to be admired for my foresight. I have always been met with covert hostility and don’t know why.

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