Rambling wreck type post

 

Looks like there wasn't a post yesterday, and I'm too lazy to organize my thoughts much, so this is a by-the-seat-of-pants type rambling wreck post. Be forewarned. /lol

Taking it back chronologically, yesterday was a day in which I watched a lot of videos. That alone was a rambling wreck. Just all over the place with what I watched. Youtube will send out some suggested vids, and if I see anything, I'll click on it. If I like it, I'll watch it all. If not, I'll move on to the next one. And so on and so forth.

Hard to say how much time I spent on that, but it was probably several hours. One thing that sticks out was a video about the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. There was something that caught my attention. I have a video about that battle, and in one critical part, there was Col. Chamberlain of the ??th Maine, who "refused the line". It is a battle tactic. Chamberlain's men were out of ammo, so they had to do a bayonet charge or retreat. A retreat meant being outflanked, and that would mean big trouble. If memory serves, Chamberlain got a Medal of Honor for his heroism in making that charge.

So I was familiar with Chamberlain. The thing that was new was that THE SAME THING happened on the opposite flank. It wasn't at exactly the same time, but it was the same thing. Lee was attempting to flank the Union Army, but these two guys are what held the lines on that day, and the fateful Picket's Charge was the next day. With that, I think I know why the North won that battle, and that was the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. The point is that all of that came down to two men. If either them failed, it would have been a disaster.

That was one video. There were others. The next one is about one from the Terran Space Academy. It was about aneutronic fusion. Now I've written a bit about that subject here on this blog. What's different about this one is that it is about Helium-3 as a fusion fuel that could be mined on the moon. Here's a chart of the Helium-3 content that can be obtained from the lunar surface.

 

The point is that there are so many elements that could be mined from the lunar surface. These are the most rare of the substances, but if Helium-3 could be used in fusion reactions, it's value, which is the most rare, would also be the most valuable back on Earth. Helium-3 is useful because it can be used in aneutronic fusion. Neutrons are the most troublesome byproducts of nuclear energy. If you can remove the neutrons, you can have clean energy. He claims that it would be worth trillions. That alone could subsidize the entire operation. But NASA has tested a device that could mine oxygen, and it is said to be no bigger than a suitcase. Oxygen makes up about 80% of the propellant of Musk's MethaLox Rockets. That alone could be sufficient to go to the moon. The point is that how do you NOT go to the moon?

But it should be remembered that nobody has a successful fusion device as of yet. You could go to the moon anyway even if it weren't for that. There is plenty more good stuff there.

Which brings me to the next video! I didn't make a note of this next one at all, so I am winging it again. This one was about muon-catalyzed fusion as a rocket design to get us to the stars. Whoa! Heady stuff there. Nobody has figured out how to do muon-catalyzed fusion yet, either. It caught my eye because muons ALMOST work. You don't need net-energy to work in a rocket. A rocket doesn't have to be net energy. It just needs a reaction mass that is going out the business end of the rocket at near relativistic speeds. That's what this proposition is said to do. It is a bit fanciful, though. You would need a source of muons, and how the heck do you do that? Not only that, you'd need a whole helluva lot of muons. You need a lot of reactions and the muons are unstable. That means they don't last long. You could use helium-3 you got from the moon so that it can be radiation free. Almost radiation free, there's still that.

The last video to comment upon was about Tesla. I was skeptical of battery powered vehicles, but this dude is making progress. They believe that they can get the prices down to a competitive level with gasoline powered cars. If you can get an energy source to power the batteries, then you will have something. Otherwise, they are not better than what we already have, and they cost more. Nevertheless, the progress is impressive.

Oh, by the way. There were two more things. I told ya it would be a rambling wreck. The reason capitalism is better than communism is Elon Musk. Communists would never be able to do what this guy does. If they did, they wouldn't be communists. Communists have to lie because they are inferior and they know it.

One more thing! Just saw the Tucker Carlson video of Kyle Rittenhouse. Or some of that video. I thought what they did to the kid was bad, but I didn't know the whole story. It was even WORSE than I thought. That takes some doing. Communists really suck and his story shows that. All they got is lies and intimidation. To beat them, you need to stop FEARING them. They are INFERIOR. That's why they have to lie and they know it.