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Lunar operations.

“It could look something like this: in partnership with the US government, a private company — let’s call it Regolift MegaCorp — sends fuel-cell powered, tele-operated robots to the lunar poles to mine their icy regolith. There, they separate the […]

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JFK’s speech to Congress in 1961.

He came to ask them for $10 Billion in funding to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. We know how that story ended! Well, at least those of us who haven’t subscribed to the […]

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AI magic makes century-old films look new

I came here for the colorized and sharpened San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, and it was great. There is also upgraded old footage from France, Japan and the Moon! | learn more

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Nuclear power for the moon

“Because resupply missions are challenging and sunlight doesn’t reach some parts of the Moon, NASA is betting that simple, lightweight nuclear reactors are the way to go.” I especially love this because when I was a kid, I thought it’d […]

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Folding paper to the moon.

Can you guess how many times you would need to fold a paper in half before it’s thick enough to reach the moon? Remember from last week: humans are bad at non-linear thinking. | learn more