The Kingdon of Tycho

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.

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”

The use of Bioplastic and Desktop Manufacturing will allow our Moon base to become self sufficient in spare parts at a relatively early stage.
Bioplastics are plastics made from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable starch or microbes, rather than petroleum as traditional plastics are made from. Obviously we don’t expect to find petroleum on the [...]

Here is a NASA animation about the constellation program that I just found on YouTube.
This is stirring stuff, and a great use of American tax money . And while I agree whole heartedly with the sentiment, I have my doubts that NASA will fly anything like what is depicted in this video to [...]

I thought I would give you some links to a couple of very interesting sites relating to my post on  Desktop Manufacturing.
The first is Fab @ Home which seeks to make a low cost freeform fabrication systems.
The second is RepRap which is making a fabricator that can make all the parts needed to make [...]