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Sunday, August 9, 2026
Starship testing sub-components?
Jipped this NASASpaceflight update at this point, because it is interesting to me. A speculation pops up into my noggin. If SpaceX is testing a sub-component like this, could it mean that it could also become a stand-alone rocket in its own right? I'm thinking of an HLS variant here that could land astronauts on the moon. Just a thought. It's isn't worth an entire post, so it is going here, as opposed to the Space City Speculations blog.
The Morning Summary, April 25, 2011
8/7/26:
The statistics:
Time approx 4:30 am
Sitemeter; Mon. am. 4618; v. Sun. am 4599; 19 up 1 from Sun
Blogger: Sun. 83, up 24 from Sat. (59); overnight is 12 so far, compared with 21 this time yesterday.
Nothing to report on bids, nor sales, still zero on revenues, no clicks on Amazon. Nobody appears to be clicking on the Products page nor on the Marketing pages.
New record for this blog on Blogger pageviews.
YouTube page: 848 v 847 channel views previously, 493 v. 492 upload views previously. Channel views improve by 1, upload views improve by 1.
It is gratifying to hit new records. On the other hand, the lack of marketing success is frustrating.
Update:
I think I am going to be lite with the blogging today. That's my agenda today. Just to think.
Update:
One thing I thought about was the Space Show yesterday. If you were to get large quantities of turpentine and nitric acid in orbit at a reasonable cost, that could be a plus. On the other hand, these hypergolics may be hard to find and to synthesize in space. It would be necessary to get this up there somehow. Once up there, they can be more useful than trying to store cryogenics. The big dumb rocket could send up buttloads of the stuff. Also, the Space Cannon concept may be able to send it up at a reasonable price.
Also, after I finished the above post, I started reading up on fusion. I may need to spend some time in these forums.
Update:
It is interesting to go back and look at previous posts like this. It is all an education, just like yesterday. I didn't know about Interorbital until I listened to the Space Show. It is still a matter of getting educated on what's out there.
If I may interject a thought into these discussions. Everybody is going at this in their own way. But what if no single way exists? That's a question that should be considered. Take fusion, for example. The fact that fusion can take place now is not in dispute. The problem is getting it to do what we want. But if we want to do something like generating electricity, it may not be possible by a direct approach. Let's say if you wanted to use fusion for propulsion and then use that propulsion to emplace solar stations that would send energy back to the Earth. But I don't think anyone is thinking that way. Instead, they want to get it to produce net electrical power. Maybe that isn't even necessary. That's my point.
This post originated here. It was cross-posted on the other blogger platformed blog, and retained here. That means they are separate posts now on different blogs.
I noted firstly on the other blog this morning that folks may be interested in stats.
They're not reliable, and they've ceased to be of interest to me. But if anybody's interested, here's a stat for ya. Total views all time for this blog: 5,107,466
Make of that what you will.
Update to the reaction update, 8/9/26:
Here's one of the more clicked upon posts, which actually serves as an introduction to the blog:
Brief review of concepts discussed on this blog.
The statistics:
Time approx 4:30 am
Sitemeter; Mon. am. 4618; v. Sun. am 4599; 19 up 1 from Sun
Blogger: Sun. 83, up 24 from Sat. (59); overnight is 12 so far, compared with 21 this time yesterday.
Nothing to report on bids, nor sales, still zero on revenues, no clicks on Amazon. Nobody appears to be clicking on the Products page nor on the Marketing pages.
New record for this blog on Blogger pageviews.
YouTube page: 848 v 847 channel views previously, 493 v. 492 upload views previously. Channel views improve by 1, upload views improve by 1.
It is gratifying to hit new records. On the other hand, the lack of marketing success is frustrating.
Update:
I think I am going to be lite with the blogging today. That's my agenda today. Just to think.
Update:
One thing I thought about was the Space Show yesterday. If you were to get large quantities of turpentine and nitric acid in orbit at a reasonable cost, that could be a plus. On the other hand, these hypergolics may be hard to find and to synthesize in space. It would be necessary to get this up there somehow. Once up there, they can be more useful than trying to store cryogenics. The big dumb rocket could send up buttloads of the stuff. Also, the Space Cannon concept may be able to send it up at a reasonable price.
Also, after I finished the above post, I started reading up on fusion. I may need to spend some time in these forums.
Update:
It is interesting to go back and look at previous posts like this. It is all an education, just like yesterday. I didn't know about Interorbital until I listened to the Space Show. It is still a matter of getting educated on what's out there.
If I may interject a thought into these discussions. Everybody is going at this in their own way. But what if no single way exists? That's a question that should be considered. Take fusion, for example. The fact that fusion can take place now is not in dispute. The problem is getting it to do what we want. But if we want to do something like generating electricity, it may not be possible by a direct approach. Let's say if you wanted to use fusion for propulsion and then use that propulsion to emplace solar stations that would send energy back to the Earth. But I don't think anyone is thinking that way. Instead, they want to get it to produce net electrical power. Maybe that isn't even necessary. That's my point.
Starship recovery in the Indian Ocean
Update to the update, 8/9/26: :
8/5/26 Update:
There's some doubt that this will work... It will be quite a salvage job if it does indeed work...
It's been over a week since the launch of Flight 13, and the Starship has not sunk. Evidently, there will be an attempt to tow it back to Australia. Here's a fellow that I've embedded a video on previously with respect to the Iran situation in the Strait of Hormuz awhile back. He's discussing what it may take to get it back to land in one piece. Not necessarily a piece of cake, I take it.
Bye?
8/9/26:
The original post was on 5/15/24:
This is a 10 minute video, and I clicked on it. After watching it for awhile, I decided to click off, and make this post.
He says some things that I agree with. However, I think that his claim to honesty may be a bit of hype. Anyway, is this video a farewell video, or not? By the time I spent my time on it, I decided that I wasn't going to stick around and see if that is what it really was. If it wasn't a farewell video, then I think this was a clickbait video.
Scams, scams and more scams. This guy says he's honest. I'll check back later and see if he really is, or if he is full of shit.
He made a video yesterday. So it wasn't farewell after all.
The original post was on 5/15/24:
This is a 10 minute video, and I clicked on it. After watching it for awhile, I decided to click off, and make this post.
He says some things that I agree with. However, I think that his claim to honesty may be a bit of hype. Anyway, is this video a farewell video, or not? By the time I spent my time on it, I decided that I wasn't going to stick around and see if that is what it really was. If it wasn't a farewell video, then I think this was a clickbait video.
Scams, scams and more scams. This guy says he's honest. I'll check back later and see if he really is, or if he is full of shit.
Taking out the trash
8/9/26:
The news of decline has been greatly exagerrated. I read through part of substack, but it is rather dreary. If you're into that, by all means. I have other things to do.
The original post was on 12/28/24:
Forecast 2025 -- by James Howard Kunstler
Comment:
Worth a read. You may want to bolster yourself with something first... not entirely pleasant reading.
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