This was inevitable.
So they want to claim a body on which no member of the tribe has set foot, based purely on the fact that they’ve been looking at it for centuries.
How many spaceships does Navajo Nation have?
[Update a while later]
Link fixed, sorry.
Chad Orzel answers the important questions.
…is a war against America itself.
As you can see in the left sidebar, I’m planning to attend next month in Orlando. They used to be in San Diego, and I haven’t been to one since before the pandemic. ASCEND was a huge upgrade over their previous annual space conference, and I’m curious to see how much SciTech has changed in the past few years.
As you can see from the program, it has a wide variety of papers on not just space (my primary interest, as always), but aviation as well. The number of simultaneous topics is overwhelming (as it has been in the past), but I’ll be interested primarily in sessions on space resources, space assembly and servicing, life support for larger facilities, nuclear propulsion (both electric and thermal), human logistics in space and space medicine, advances in additive manufacturing, AI applications and, of course space policy. I’ll also be discussing my own participation in the Cislunar Ecosystem Task Force, which was first announced at this event a year ago.
I don’t know if there will be any news broken there, but if there is, I’ll be blogging about it here. I won’t be attending Friday, because I have to be in DC. But I will be there Monday through Thursday, and I hope I’ll see some of you there.
I have some thoughts.
Do they extend beyond the planet?
The fact that the UN declaration is a “universal” one strongly suggests that they do. I disagree that “health” is a human right, though.
Yes, there will be a need for it (and a Space Guard to carry it out). And not just for tourists. And the most responsive place to put a base for it would be equatorial LEO.
Branson isn’t going to pour any more of his own money into that hole in the sky he started almost two decades ago.
To be fair, though, most of the money that went into it was other (foolish) peoples’. It never made any business sense given how much they were putting into it.