Archive for May, 2008

Busy Time at the Moon

It’s a very busy time at the Moon these days. Not since the dawn of the space age, with the space race between the USSR and USA have so many probes been sent to the Moon.

Saving Our Own Arses

Environmentalism is not really about saving the planet. The Earth was here long before mankind came into being and if we wipe ourselves out the planet will continue along just fine without us. There are five mass extinctions in Earth’s fossil record. Mass extinctions that wiped out as many as 90% of living species. So even if mankind were to take most of the living species with us in some environmental disaster the Earth will survive and life will recover and get along just fine without us. So when I talk about environmentalism and “green issues”

Congradulations to Bigelow Aerospace

I have just read over on the Space.com website that Bigelow Aerospace Genesis 1 has completed over 10,000 orbits.
On behalf of The Kingdom of Tycho I would like to extend my congratulations to Bigelow Aerospace and wish them every continued sucess.

Childhood Inspiration

Salvage 1 is a 1979 made for TV movie. It served as a pilot for a TV series. I know I watched the series, but I don’t remember it. However I do remember the movie. It is the inspirational story of a junk man who uses surplus parts to assemble a rocket and fly to [...]

Building a Moon Base

Here is an article I came across on the Universe Today websit considering the hazards and construction techniques for building a Moon base.