Propulsion of the future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MqzgKAIIWc&sns=em
Spacevidcast?
Looks like spacesail.

Checking in 7/15/14: Some RV options

Reading the news is getting tiresome these days.  Not interested in posting on that stuff.  It is the stuff that people seem to live for, all the conflict and so forth.  It reminds me of how I shut off the TV years ago. While shutting off the TV, I kept up with the news on the internet.  Now that is getting the way that TV used to be. Don't care for it myself.  Declaring my independence from it.

After having visiting my property a couple times, some ideas of what to do next include a way to stay there longer.  Can't do much in a such a short time.

The simplest and cheapest solution is to use what you've got.  Other than that, you can start buying stuff.  <gulp>

Here's a few things that I looked at while the news rages on:


Fleetwood 1989 Prowler Lynx 18N:  Trailer
asking 3k

Fleetwood 1996 Elkhorn  asking 4k,cabover for a 8 ft pickup truck

1988 Lance 300---8'6, cabover for 8 ft pickup truck asking $2350

more listings

I've done this research before, but I didn't take proper note of it, drat it.

Update:

Some decisions are going to have to be made.  That's the reason for the options mentioned above.  Also, when and how to make the move.

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Incredible production from a small amount of square footage.

Successful Spacex launch

http://m.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0714/In-key-test-SpaceX-rocket-launches-six-satellites-video
The reuseability test awaits word on the results.

Update:

Looks like at least a partial failure when a hull breach was detected.

BIS chief fears fresh Lehman from worldwide debt surge

telegraph uk

excerpts:

• Jaime Caruana, head of the Swiss-based financial watchdog, said investors were ignoring the risk of monetary tightening in their voracious hunt for yield.
• Mr Caruana said the international system is in many ways more fragile than it was in the build-up to the Lehman crisis.
• The disturbing twist in this cycle is that China, Brazil, Turkey and other emerging economies have succumbed to private credit booms of their own
• “It may be the case that the debt is better distributed because some highly-indebted countries have deleveraged...But there is also now more sensitivity to interest rate movements."
• “Overall, it is hard to avoid the sense of a puzzling disconnect between the markets’ buoyancy and underlying economic developments globally,”
• The BIS is the doyen of world’s financial institutions, created in Basel in 1930 to clean up the mess left by German reparations payments under the Versailles Treaty. It has since evolved into the bank of central banks, and lately the bastion of monetary orthodoxy.
• “There is something strange about fighting debt by incentivizing more debt."

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An example of what might work

Off the grid general store:

Update:

The location of this place is on Hwy 71 between Columbus and LaGrange, Texas.  Columbus is about 70 miles west of downtown Houston.

Checking in: 7/13/14

I've spent most of the day on the road returning back from Sierra Blanca.  As of the moment, I'm getting everything out of the vehicle and put away and organized.

Got some stuff done, but would have liked to have done a lot more.  Rain cut short the field trip for the second time in a row.  You can't beat mother nature.

Tomorrow, posting should resume on a regular schedule.