SpaceX orbital launch table saves some launch mass by providing nitrogen, hot oxygen and hot methane to ignite the engines. I think connecting the outer engines to the fuel supplied for ignition will save a few tons from the booster. SpaceX will hopefully launch the Super Heavy Starship to orbit in the next month or …
Worldometers reports the official Global total of nationally reported COVID deaths will pass 5 million this weekend. It is reported at 4.995 million today. Worldometers reports the US death total at over 760,000 but the CDC reports the US COVID death total at 740,000. The officially reported national COVID death totals are known to be …
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index reports that Elon Musk is worth over $300 billion. He is the first to break the $300 billion mark. Jeff Bezos is number two with $199 billion but Amazon dropped 4% in the after hours after disappointing earnings. This puts Bezos back to $191 billion. Elon is worth more than the …
General Mark Milley provided the first confirmation of an intercontinental hypersonic weapons test by China this summer. The missile orbited the Earth and had a hypersonic stage that could change direction at speeds over five times the speed of sound. This is not something that can be shot down with current anti-missile technology. Nextbigfuture would …
NASA has proposed using the Space Launch System until 2050. Over $30 billion has been spent on getting the Space Launch System to its first flight. This might happen next year. In 2019, the White House Office of Management and Budget estimated the cost of one SLS launch a year at over $2 billion. NASA …
The Boring Company is expanding the Vegas Loop to 29 miles and 51 stations. Boring Revolution finds the Boring system will be a money printer with an insane daily through-put of 495,000 persons and a monster 42% gross margin. He expects the tunnels will cost $162 million. The stations will be built by the casinos. …
Historically, computing technology typically hits significant milestones that influence the course of history in 10 – 15 year cycles. The mid-80s was the era of PCs, the Internet reshaped the 90s, smartphones upended the 2000s, and since the introduction of the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, blockchain technology has been reshaping the course of history with …
Blue Origin and Sierra Space announced plans for Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station to be built in low Earth orbit. The station will open the next chapter of human space exploration and development by facilitating the growth of a vibrant ecosystem and business model for the future. Orbital Reef is …
If anyone told you that document fraud is still one of the largest forms of fraud in this digital age, many would deny given the prevalence of digital credentials today. It is hard to fathom that the market for counterfeit and fake documents and certifications is still high in 2021. However, the counterfeit market for …
Iran and Venezuela have been kept out of the regular oil markets for years with US and European sanctions. Iran and Venezuela, each used to export a couple million barrels of oil per day or more if you look further back in time. Venezuela had a longer twenty-year decline because they wrecked their economy and …
Looking at a list of pandemics COVID-19 is ranking at about the percent of global population loss (0.07-0.25%) at about the level of the 1957 flu (0.03-0.1%). World population is now over three times larger so instead of 1.1-4.0 million global population hit, the 1957 flu would adjust to 3.6 to 13 million. COVID-19 is …