Comments on: Turkey and Somalia confirm spaceport plans https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1627037 Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:02:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1627037 Jeff Wright,

Larry Niven is still with us. Don’t know if he’s still writing though.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1627032 Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:09:35 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1627032 Funny
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Y98RbzmpiJg

The best learing instruction comes from riding the eponymous jet over Epstein Island while copying Clint Eastwood’s eye spasm.

That’s Learing

]]> By: David Davies https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1626995 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:58:51 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1626995 ‘Muslims in Space’.

Sounds like a Mel Brooks title.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1626974 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:58:44 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1626974 I wish I could have met him.

Larry Niven is still with us?

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1626947 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:35:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1626947 Jeff Wright,

The late sci-fi author Jerry Pournelle was a Korean War veteran – an artilleryman. I heard him tell several stories about the war at various meetings of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. He was always very complimentary about the Turks who fought there.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1626941 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:17:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1626941 They held their own in Korea
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4284053

]]> By: john hare https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1626926 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:55:38 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1626926 I think the Turks may be a little less constrained by restrictive ROE than the “nation builder” types.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1626925 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:21:37 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1626925 Quality Learing Center

Median IQ in Somalia is 67.
GDP of Somalia is $12 Billion, of which at least $1 billion came from Hennepin County, in Minneapolis, Minne-soda.

]]> By: Lee S https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1626919 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:31:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1626919 What could possibly go wrong?

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1626910 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:53:25 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1626910 Nice that the pirates similar to the ones that attacked the MAERSK ALABAMA can just walk to their next target.

Trump needs to forget his new laser pointer boat and ink a deal with Kvaerner to build some JMOBs where we don’t need to prop up other countries for basing

]]> By: James Street https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/turkey-and-somalia-confirm-spaceport-plans/#comment-1626900 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:20:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120359#comment-1626900 Quality Learing Center

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