I like the one where it goes from brain fart craving to full tummy in less than two minutes.

hah. for a second there I thought you said Mars Shriners.

Until it’s time to go....

I’d like to see Charles Bronson science the shit out of some stuff.

nvAlt set to save as discrete text files, and FromScratch for temp notemaking, both sync’d with dropbox. TextWrangler for text scrubbing or just cracking open stubborn shit. This is a layered multi-app approach with low overhead and they’re there when I need them. Simple, redundant and highly productive.

This Lanc, crew, and sortie complete with scale ORB or it didn’t happen.

So it’s inside the solar system...would it hurt to add a sentence saying how far out?

Daily.

You’re overestimating the ‘we’ part. The world is not united on politics, priorities, ideology, certainly not as a species and definitely not in building a space elevator. A real test of community would be if someone found a Bracewell probe, or a pending disaster forced everyone to work together...but that still…

What you’re implying is not why. The promises are hyperbolic, true, but we do need water and workable metals for fuel and structure...and plenty of it – rare ores are secondary and we won’t be doing large scale orbital drops of the stuff. What are we going to do with it? That’s the great question, because that lack of…

sounds like a hetero mans special hell

The point is not to bring it back to Earth, it’s to use the materials to build off-world infrastructure. It a long game. You should look into it.

I’d never do something like cut myself off...

Because new things frighten old people.

2016 and it is still too hard breaking a dromedary. Some day, dromedaries will rule the world and their breakage will be a piece of pie on every corner and vending tent.

...problem is with you and how you’re using it, not with the internet.

You have the good idea. Consider yourself hired. (do you accept camels? or prefer payment in gold...)

Looking forward to hearing the inside story of the landing guidance system development, because it has defintely improved. Probably catch it on BBC12 documentary reruns in, say, 20 years when it’s been declassified.

I doubt the cardboard is as flash-flamable as you make it out to be. They don’t talk about fire resistance, but they do use a bonding agent that may be, and the carboard is structural; wrapped and compressed against the inner wood frame in a continuous run, then clad externally with a wrap and more wood.