You are a citizen journalist.
https://bit.ly/3zSPjHX
“We Own It” – Wiz Khalifa featuring 2 Chainz (2 minutes)
(It’s an older video, sir, but it checks out.)

Mark: Finally, thank you for the suggestion about including my email address (disguised) on the donation page. I will do so. However, I have deleted the pseudo address you included in your comment, because it was not correct, and I feared others would think it is and use it.

Mark: Also, my email is NOT Bob.Zimmerman at etc. If that is the address you used it went to the wrong person.

Mark: When did you donate by Zelle? That you tried to email me and it bounced makes me worry that your donation went sour as well, since it uses the same email address.

I tried to email this but it got kicked back.

Success using Zelle. I only wrote to try to eliminate PPs 12% cut by sending you $s direct via Zelle.

Please consider adding your sanitized address to your donation page:

“Send me money through Zelle. This method also charges no fees. Every dime you spend goes only to me” Add:

“ at the following address: [deleted to avoid confusion] :-) Note, I have changed the names of the innocent and special characters to protect their anonymity. :-) This should defeat bots and hopefully increase your revenue.

OT, I have to ask. Why is Sx taking the risk to destroy Stage 0 plus the propellant farm/s by catching SH and SS? The extra mass of all the propellant needed to be captured by the chopsticks twice is about the same as the mass of the landing gear needed for each stage. If one has multiple SHs and SSs ready to go, the risk just does not make sense to me.

I know Elon wants to launch SH 3x per day (yeah right), but if he just has 3x SHs that have been preflighted and are ready to go for launch I propose the following:

Launch SH/SS stack.

Move previously recovered FIFO preflight tested SH and SS to the OLM. Chopsticks lifts and configures the stack for relaunch. Once SH clears pad.

Move the next previously recovered FIFO preflight tested SH and SS to the OLM. Chopsticks lifts and configures the stack for relaunch.

Recover SS and SH from first launch away from Stage 0. Preflight and place on transporter to OLP.

Repeat as needed.

Assuming the mass of the extra propellant is about the same as landing legs, this should be a wash. Incremental expenses would involve the cost of extra transporters, refurb/testing (that might be more efficient away from the OLP. The biggest gain is the reduction of risk in destroying Stage 0. Unless I’m missing something, this should be considered.

Warmest Regards,
Mark

I always thought that the policy of not claiming national sovereignty was just an extension of the 1967 space treaty. It does not disallow private property in space. It just says that the applicable law comes from some terrestrial entity. The treaty is silent on the creation of *new* sovereignties in space.

The Moon is a harsh mistress ;)

(I like the serif type font here, although serif is supposedly harder to read online than sans serif.)

I’m not any type of “From you according to your abilities, to me according to my needs”-kind of guy.

By the same token, I operated my own store-front services-related business for 25 years, after I left the regular paycheck industry.

I opened my doors each day, allowed people to come in to graze on my offerings, and some of them bought in.

Capitalism.

“welcome whether you donate or not” is the correct response.

I think I’ll stick around a little longer.

(BTW: my paycheck-earning adult life was spent working for not-for-profits where we were expected to accomplish everything having been given practically nothing to do it. I would have no investment income without transitioning from indentured servitude to self-employment).

I’m not destitute, but I’m no longer as financially secure as I was able to work to achieve in my later years.

Mark: I have also revised your comment to disguise my email address, for the same reasons mentioned in my previous comment.

Mark: That’s the right email address. I don’t wish to post that on the main page, because I do not wish to make it easy for evil-doers and robots to find it.

As I mentioned, if you do subscribe by Zelle, please let me know by emailing me what the monthly payment date is and amount. Zelle does not provide these details.

Pretty clever hiding it in plain sight showing it as zimmerman at nasw.org when us non-rocket scientists are looking for a standard email addy. :-)

Thanks.

You are on the frontline of the “Great Reset”. Which IMO has still not arrived in its full force.

Nothing to worry about for you, because: “In the future you will own nothing, and you will be happy”.

And I am not mocking you, I am but pointing out that this Liberal / Leftists / NWO / Globalist / Soros / Schwab / John Kerry (Traitor) agenda is being implemented in real time and your difficulties are a direct result of it. All of what we are going through today is entirely unnecessary and is contrived and is being installed by “president” Biden and his administration, and it has a purpose.

*The destruction of the American economy and Americans independence. *

How else could these political operators install their agenda in the world? America stands directly in their way.

America must be destroyed from the inside out in order that it not stand in the way of this brave new Liberal / Leftist / Socialist utopia.

Total very dangerous ideological political Bull Crap.

GaryMike: I am sorry about your financial difficulties. However, that is no reason to leave commenting here. I do not charge nor require payment to contribute your thoughts. They are welcome whether you donate or not.

My investments are down 34% in the past year and a half. I can’t predictably budget for my own future needs.

I can’t afford to contribute so this must be goodbye.

–GM

I should add that to use Zelle you simply have to send the money to my email address, which can be found at the bottom of my essay on the “About” page.

To all,

As I added in the fund-raising post above, if you arrange with Zelle to pay me monthly, please let me know either by email or a comment that you have done so, and tell me the monthly payment date you have chosen.