Comments on: South Korea signs the Artemis Accords

By: wayne

wayne — Mon, 31 May 2021 01:18:27 +0000

Dr. Who –
Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)
[the Peter Cushing variant]
https://youtu.be/WCIk3Mf-hIc
4:57

By: Blair K Ivey

Blair K Ivey — Mon, 31 May 2021 00:56:18 +0000

“The future’s so bright, Bob gotta wear shades.”

Have the album, and the following effort (also pretty good). Appreciate the reference.

By: Pyrthroes

Pyrthroes — Sun, 30 May 2021 23:24:32 +0000

By c. AD 2050 – 2125, as global demographics crater and dustmote Earth confronts cyclical, plate-tectonic induced 102-kiloyear Pleistocene glaciations due to cover 60%+ of habitable landmasses with ice-sheets two miles thick (the Holocene Interglacial ended 670 years ago, in AD 1350), quantum “telesponding” –instantaneous entanglement/superposition from A to B anywhere in the dual-dynamic cosmos’ 94-billion LY “Eternal Present” interface)– will have rendered classical action-reaction rocketry as obsolete as canal boats vs. an SR-71.

As for neural-net AI, virtually immortal trans-human capabilities via hyperlinked, self-aware Cloud Minds will have superseded organic evolution: If hominids can’t lick our powerful creations, we’ll just join ’em. What form that takes is beyond current comprehension… but what we do know is, contemporaries’ extraordinarily self-deluded ignorance, reigning oligarchs’ antipathy to anything that smacks of noumenal reality, will go the way of Nineveh and Tyre.

Residual populations born c. 2050 will take all this for granted. But for our benighted milieu, three generations into the greatest cultural dearth since Late Roman times, the coming century will see more changes than all four previous eras from AD 1600.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 29 May 2021 06:58:38 +0000

The Spacenews website had an article from May 27th indicating that Brazil and New Zealand were likely the next two countries to sign the Artemis accords. Brazil last year signed a letter of intent. So opportunities for private space continue to grow around the world. I hope that Brazil can advance in smallsats. Just last week, Vaya Space announced that it will create a Brazilian subsidiary, and is now picking a location to manufacture. In New Zealand, Rocket Lab has a launch facility and there is more venture capital there going into private space, The future’s so bright, Bob gotta wear shades.

By: mkent

mkent — Sat, 29 May 2021 05:43:44 +0000

In a sense, we are seeing a renewal of the Cold War in space, with the western powers that believe in private enterprise and freedom aligned against those whose cultures are authoritarian and ruled from above. It's good to see UAE in the former camp. They seem to be genuinely working towards still having an economy once the oil runs out. Are their countries that want to join? Several. Brazil and New Zealand are thought to be next.

By: Dick Eagleson

Dick Eagleson — Sat, 29 May 2021 00:09:28 +0000

Ukraine also signed.

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Fri, 28 May 2021 19:48:58 +0000

In reply to Mark. Mark: You are right. I have corrected the post.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 May 2021 18:32:28 +0000

Japan listed twice. Are their countries that want to join?