science
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Musings on Black Holes
Above picture of Gargantua from the movie Interstellar. I was trying to demonstrate to myself how parallax would work for an observer near to an event horizon. My natural inclination was to create a scenario similar to Earth where parallax… Continue reading
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Black Holes: The Rainbow Event Horizon
Above picture of Gargantua from the movie Interstellar: I conjecture that the event horizon of a black hole is actually like a rainbow that appears to move as the observer moves, or, the event horizon is inaccurately defined by the… Continue reading
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Nuclear Fusion: Problems with Inertial Confinement
I was watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Ouhhl1cdM and compared with what I learned here: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5256369 I have to begin to question if this newer generation of scientists understand much of anything? I don’t meant that as much of an insult as… Continue reading
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Nuclear Fusion
I’ve been studying nuclear fusion, again, for the past month and so haven’t written much in this blog. The study of nuclear fusion excites me to actually found my company on the industrial process of making standardized inconel-718 equipment for… Continue reading
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Delta-V Budget in Crisis
In the previous post I introduced the concept that we need to rethink profitability of Delta-V (dV) and called this orbital architecture. I introduced the idea that for space industry to be sustainable it needs a profitable Delta-V budget for… Continue reading
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Rethinking Delta-V: Delta-V as Currency
Delta-V is an orbital currency; the power budget for creating Delta-V should be the currency by which we measure all space-industrial activities. Continue reading