The beginning has been revealed, and the future is not about government

Here I am, feeling an itch to write about something that just happened. For the first time in a long time, there’s a faint glimmer of hope amidst the parasitic monstrosity that is all government. We once landed on the moon and then decided to halt that monumental journey. Why did we pull the plug on one of humanity’s greatest achievements?

I’ll tell you why. Simple pimple.

The circuses part of bread and circuses had been accomplished. Time to get back to bread. The funds earmarked for further exploration? Redirected. We made it to the moon with analog technology—let that sink in. Not digital, but analog. Take a moment to grasp the chasm between analog and digital technology. We managed to reach the moon and return in the late 1960s—50 years ago—and a few more trips beyond that, and then…stop. Enter the mundane Space Shuttle program, followed by the lackluster era of probes—just probes. They send these probes flinging through space to maintain the illusion of a “space program.” But let’s be honest—a genuine space program involves human beings and tons of payload venturing into the cosmos, exploring, as all those sci-fi visions promised.

That’s the stark reality of the fucking impotence of government. All of them. There are no exceptions. They compete not on levels of greatness, but on levels of less fucked up.

So, why did it all come to a screeching halt? Political calculus. The answer lies in the dollars and cents of politics. In the mind of a politician, it’s a choice between championing more money for grander space exploration or selling the dream of living at someone else’s expense. That’s the crux of it.

Have you ever listened to the full context of The Speech?

… Elon Musk just accomplished something that was out of the blue for me and jaw dropping, since I do understand a bit of physics.

… In the summer of 1969 when Neil Armstrong piloted (in the true sense) the Lunar Landing Module down to a soft touchdown in the Sea of Tranquility, he was a human dealing with 1/6th the earth’s gravitational weight. He had a single engine to manage that gravitational pull and a series of thrusters mounted on the sides of the LEM to manage the attitudes and angles…rather analogous to a helicopter pilot hovering and gently touching down.

There’s an endless supply of do-nothing wankers. They’re mostly males who either rarely or never fuck pussy—which is God’s gift for keeping heads on straight and not sweating the small stuff.

The point of that: millions of such males mocked these fails at each round. Millions of them mock shit every day because they do not fuck pussy. It is actually…that simple.

… When I saw that vid of the tower capture, here’s what I posted on X and Facebook.

I thought it was AI.

Nope.

I’m assuming that saves MILLIONS in turnaround costs.

… I’m guessing the next challenge might be two boosts into orbit in a single day.

What will Elon think of next?

Guess what Elon posted a little later?

Getting the cost per ton to the surface of Mars low enough that humanity has the resources to make life multiplanetary requires a roughly 1000X improvement in rocket & spacecraft technology.

Recent US Mars missions have had a cost per ton of useful load to the surface of Mars of about $1B. Moreover, it has become more, not less, expensive over time!

To build a city on Mars that can grow by itself likely requires at least a million tons of equipment, which would therefore require >$1000 trillion, an obviously impossible number, given that US GDP is only $29T.

However, if rocket technology can be improved by 1000X, then the cost of becoming sustainably multiplanetary would drop to ~$1T, which could be spread out over 40 or more years, so <$25B/year.

At that cost, it becomes possible to make life multiplanetary, ensuring the long-term survival of life as we know it, without materially affecting people’s standard of living on Earth.

Starship is designed to achieve a >1000X improvement over existing systems and, especially after yesterday’s booster catch and precise ocean landing of the ship, I am now convinced that it can work.

He attached this very telling and inspiring chart.

Observe what a boodoggle laf and bureaucratic shithouse the government space shuttle program was.

Fail. Were the nattering-nabob, mommy-basement dwelling, coke-sipping, pizza munching and crusty sheets incel males mocking that?

Somewhere in some post which isn’t handy at the moment, Elon expanded. The goal is not just to have booster turnaround in a day or so. They’re going to be able to do it in about an hour, boost to orbit and back. I can’t wait.

Put the entire bloated and pathetic NASA in short lederhosen.

… I wrote this on Facebook, referencing the accomplishment.

Been so too long since I felt inspired by anything.

This inspires.

A longtime friend messaged this morning.

Regarding your FB post about being inspired for the first time in a while. This from Bill Whittle.

His imagination was “cauterized” be the government and reawakened by SpaceX this week.

Who is Bill Whittle? Bill was a Pioneer blogger back in the day, just like me. Crappy look, good content.

Bill has done a million things and I’m not really a follower (I don’t follow anyone…I create content and that keeps me busy), but he crosses my screen from time-to-time.

This is worth the watch.

I’ll bet all these folks are really anxious to get out and cast their vote for Kamala.

Back tomorrow with another post on Dry Fasting, or, fasting, you might say—since in a deprived state in nature, it might be more likely that water wasn’t around much either. As you’ll see in my continuing series, zero-calorie water has been an overlooked big piece of the fat utilization puzzle during deprivation.

Catch up here.