The Most Interesting Ship at Christmas Island
Ship 40’s tow to Christmas Island turns a remarkable Starship recovery into a witty story of engineering, espionage and high-stakes salvage in the Indian Ocean.
Progress Has a Subscription Fee
Progress is not permanent: from Concorde and Apollo to ancient machines, human capabilities vanish when industries, skills and institutions stop sustaining them.
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Beyond Rockets: The Andromeda Dreamer Gently Pirouettes into Space
For 60 years we’ve reached orbit on chemical rockets — controlled chaos transmuted into mach diamonds. Stunning when they work, devastating when they fail.
The Old Internet Strikes Back: Why WikiCritic Matters
WikiCritic revives the old internet: challenging Wikipedia’s ideological gatekeeping through transparent reviews, open competition, and genuine pluralism.
The Rocket Rivalry That Isn’t a Feud
Musk’s support for Blue Origin shows that space rivalry is not hatred: shared setbacks, resilient competition and hard-earned learning move humanity forward.
How Many Broken Tiles Can Starship Afford?
Flight 13 exposed Starship’s heat-shield challenge. A break-even model shows when tile repairs, turnaround and payload make reuse beat expendable rockets.
When the Pixels Start Having Opinions
If artificial evolution creates conscious life, pixels become persons - and programmers become accidental gods responsible for the worlds they create.