Dennis Wingo @wingod Twitter profile

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Dennis Wingo

3 years

There is a choice before us, this future, or one of prosperity through the economic development of the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt. Choose wisely.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

4 years

@neiltyson That's human history. The Bushmen would say the same thing about the Bantu, the Persian about the Egyptian, most of the world, from the viewpoint of Ghenghis Khan. Making all history about White Europeans is diametrically opposite of your call for truth in science.

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3 years

Dear @JeffBezos In 2003 when you, myself, and Walt Anderson sat down for breakfast in Seattle, we conveyed to you our greatest concern, which was that rich people in the space arena would cause more harm than good. I had the same talk with Elon. You both promised to do right.

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3 years

@andrewDC_ Coming out as an asshole huh.

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@wingod

2 years

This is the work of a 14 year old and a 16 year old. 1938....

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@wingod

3 years

Buying an NFL team, suing NASA because you and your team made a mistake in their bid, and working to stop fellow travelers from making this happen, is against everything that you believed in when you were at Princeton in your SEDS chapter. Please stop it.

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for the 21st century. Unless you change course, have a change of heart, admit that you screwed up, and move to do the right thing, we all, including all of our space dreams, is going to suffer. There is no one to do this but you Jeff. We are asking you to do it.

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@wingod

3 years

You promised to exert every means to do things right, to do everything possible to open the space frontier, as you and I consider ourselves "Gerry's kids". Elon has kept that promise. You have not. Please quit listening to those people who want to to act like a rich person.

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@wingod

3 years

Stolen from a friend on FB who stole it from a friend on twitter who stole it...

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@wingod

3 years

Not only has the good will that Blue Origin had painstakingly built for almost 20 years been destroyed, the lack of progress in your engines is endangering national security by not delivering hardware to United Launch Alliance.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

21 days

My first flight hardware now in the Smithsonian! Can you name it?

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@wingod

2 years

@MarkRuffalo @Beyond_IP There is no such thing as "renewable" energy other than trees and direct sunlight. Any technology like wind and solar that requires a global industrial infrastructure for its manufacture, distribution, and replacement, is not renewable. Opposing nuclear power is anti-climate.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

6 years

@RealJamesWoods The entertainment community going political has to be one of the most colossal mistakes of all time.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

3 years

We have made amazing progress in the last 30 years, against amazing odds. Bringing private finance into this realm was our goal in the Space Frontier Foundation and the National Space Society. Many people spent their lives in this syssiphian task.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

3 years

I don't think that you understand how thin the thread of our progress is, and how easy it would be for the powers that be to reverse our progress in the government from the left and right to support what is truly the solution to climate change and other dire societal needs...

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

6 years

@hasschapman @chickbritches @Byu_bob @NewYorker I can see where caring for others, truth, wisdom, and the search for higher meaning are foreign concepts to you people these days.

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@wingod

2 years

@mattyglesias They lived to maybe 35 years old. Had no clean water. starved quite often. Had zero medical care. Were owned by the local lord, were conscripted on a moments notice for war. Do you seriously think that today is worse?

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@wingod

4 years

@thehill Then she is in violation of her security oath...

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

3 years

It is my firm opinion that this may represent a turning point in human history. @elonmusk in the 24th century will be as famous as Zefram Cochrane.

Latest in space

@latestinspace

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How it started (1969) vs. Where it’s going (2024)

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

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If the United States had executed on president Nixon’s “project independence”, announced in response to the Arab oil embargo, of building 1,000 nuclear plants by the year 2000, we would have a fully decarbonized power infrastructure today. It was opposed by environmentalists.

Christian Keil

@pronounced_kyle

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Georgia Power just brought two new nuclear reactors online. Together, they will: ‣ run for 60-80 years ‣ power 500,000 homes ‣ generate $700 million in revenue per year

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@wingod

4 years

Your evening funny.....

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

3 years

@ellle_em And then there is this.... This vain fellow required two brushings per day to keep his fur well kept. He was the most love in the world to us, and the greatest terror to all other cats in the world, except his sister.

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@wingod

4 years

@NancyAFrench @kerpen What the hell are these young upper class white kids doing this for? It ain't for the cause, that's for sure.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

2 months

Take that moon deniers

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@radjanirad

2 years

Beautiful image by the Indian Space Agency of the Apollo 12 landing site, with footprints to the Surveyor robotic craft. Love the sharp shadows! @ISRO

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@wingod

5 months

This is astonishing. Sunset on Mars today. Wow, just wow...

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

2 years

This is just one example of what we lost when we killed Apollo. It was proposed to do one AES mission with the last two flight Saturn V's, landing at the north pole for two weeks. This was an epic abandonment of the future, of us, but we have the chance to turn that around.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

6 years

I want to say something publicly in support of @elonmusk today. I have known him since the beginning of SpaceX and just want you to know that we in the space community support you and wish the best for you today.

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@wingod

2 years

You know, it kind of pisses me off that SLS is branding itself as the most powerful ever as its throw weight beyond LEO is just a bit over half that of the Saturn V.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

4 years

The Space Shuttle Road Map by the Von Braun team, circa 1970.... From Dave Christensen's archives...

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@wingod

2 years

Informed sources are saying that NASA just got a big ISRU related budget cut, killing ongoing projects. @SciGuySpace

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@wingod

4 years

@raesanni 340,000 white men gave their blood and their lives to secure your ancestors release from slavery.

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@wingod

3 years

This is the burn statement of the year... “Twitter is the place where people who don’t read books come to argue with those that write them”

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@DrChrisCombs

3 years

Some of these replies to Jonathan McDowell 🤦‍♂️ “Twitter is the place where people who don’t read books come to argue with those that write them” #SpaceX #Tesla #ELON

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

3 years

Oh, I can't resist...... @elonmusk

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

3 years

The future. Don't let any of the assholes talk you out of it.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

4 years

Here is another thought for the day..... @MikayesFiona

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@wingod

2 years

@SenSanders In Apollo, Boeing built the 1st stage, the 2nd stage by North American Aviation, the3rd by Douglas, the LM by Grumman, the CSM by North American. For 50 years you and your party have underfunded space. If you don't want them there first, increase NASA budget to $40 billion/year.

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@wingod

1 year

This is what NASA was going to do with Apollo 20 in 1973. Our future was stolen from us.

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@wingod

2 years

I will bet quite a lot that this tower won't cost 3x original contract numbers.

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@JFrankleKSC

2 years

Soon there will be a new tower in town here at Kennedy Space Center LC-39A! This is a segment of the Starship launch pad tower heading out to the pad. #SpaceX #Starship #NASA #Artemis

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

8 years

@Gizmodo How about politicians being stupid? That is probably the biggest liability that we have in the world today.

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@wingod

4 years

From a friend....

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

4 years

Damn. It is a big problem.

Tory Bruno reveals Chinese company tried to infiltrate ULA’s supply chain

spacenews.com

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

3 years

This is what far too many do not get. Energy use = prosperity. You cannot dial back energy use without bringing back poverty. The key is to go forward with advanced energy systems who's pollution per unit of power generated is far less. What magic is that? Nuclear power.

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@robert_zubrin

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@peterrhague And here’s the data that proves your case.

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@wingod

2 years

I am in an airplane at 30,000 feet, typing on an advanced power efficient computer, with more memory that all the books in humanity up to 150 years ago, over a global terrestrial and space based Communications system that connects billions of people at a time. a miraculous time

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@wingod

3 years

THIS is the space program I signed up for 35 years ago.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

11 months

@peterrhague I still remember the CEO of Arianespace and ILA laughing at Gwen Shotwell at a conference in Singapore when she announced that the Falcon 9 first stage would be reusable. None of them are laughing today.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

4 years

@ChuckCallesto @TurntableKittah We are either equal, or we are not. period.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

4 years

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING SPACE TWITTER AND READ THIS. Today the aggregate IQ of the space world has dropped by a measurable amount. Gordon R. Woodcock, one of the bright lights of the dark ages of space, since Apollo, who's engineering brilliance underpins any rational lunar..

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@wingod

6 years

@hasschapman @chickbritches @Byu_bob @NewYorker Very few Christians believe that, it is a throwback to an earlier time. As my wife likes to say, everyone believes something that is absolutely wrong. Would you like to be pilloried for what you believe that is wrong?

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@wingod

4 years

@mr_nguni @neiltyson For hundreds of years North Africans routinely raided the southern European coasts for slaves. It was still going on in the 18th century on the high seas, enough for this to be America's first declared war. So even in this you are wrong.

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4 years

That is funny

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Gold Coast Hospital Staff Roll In A Volleyball To Keep Tom Hanks Company In Quarantine:

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@wingod

2 years

@BillNye tell that to the 9 generations in my family that came here in the 1630's and never owned slaves. Additionally, on this day we should celebrate and remember the 340,000 white Americans who died to make this day possible.

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Dennis Wingo

@wingod

3 years

@RepCori Did Hamas think about that before launching an attack? Asking for a Jewish friend.

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@wingod

4 months

The reason for anti-space ad on the superbowl is that a positive future in space for humanity does not require, nay it renders moot, the calls for communism and degrowth. Space is pro human, pro sustainability, and is the antithesis of their antihuman agenda.

SpaceBasedFox 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖊𝖆𝖊𝖗𝖔.𝖈𝖔𝖒

@SpaceBasedFox

4 months

The anti-spaceflight "focus on Earth" Superbowl ads this year are gonna suck... That Matthew McConaughey one from last year had me like

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@wingod

5 years

@MaraGay Slavery has been around as long as humanity has. It was white, Christian, European and American men that largely ended it. It only survives in nations of color where the strong oppress the weak.

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@wingod

1 year

When people with zero expertise (climate crazies) tell me that space resources and space manufacturing is not possible, I think of this.

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@wingod

1 month

This Is a very big deal

FXHedge

@Fxhedgers

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Starlink soars: SpaceX’s satellite internet surprises analysts with $6.6 billion revenue projection (Space News) SpaceX’s ambitious Starlink satellite network is exceeding expectations at a blistering pace, according to a new report by Quilty Space, a market research and

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@wingod

3 years

Wow, I forgot that I have in my archives lots of interesting Apollo digitized drawings....

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@wingod

3 years

This photo will still be admired 500 years from now.

Eric Berger

@SciGuySpace

3 years

This black and white Starship photo from Friday, which is evocative of both history and what is to come, sent a clear message to regulators: We are ready to usher in the future.

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@wingod

4 years

@stevenjfrisch @thehill You do realize that New Zealand is a small island while the United States is the center of global commerce. Just a thought.

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@wingod

6 months

A dear friend of mine had this note from Wernher Von Braun. I took a picture of it. @elonmusk

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@wingod

5 years

Wow, this article nails it, about when the problems with Boeing really started. I was there and saw it develop.

The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course

A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance.

www.theatlantic.com

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@wingod

3 years

This is world changing. Congratulations to the NASA team for having the intestinal fortitude to make this selection. Heads are exploding all over the traditional contractor community. We are in the third decade of the 21st century, time to act like it!

Eric Berger

@SciGuySpace

3 years

Here's the deal: A sole-source award to SpaceX for the Human Landing System is going to be hugely unpopular in Congress. But it means NASA is is serious about getting to the Moon with the funding they have. And if Congress adds budget, NASA can bring on an HLS competitor.

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3 years

@WinterwayEd Perhaps you should mind your own business?

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@wingod

2 years

@kris417 @MarcusReports Uh, do you not understand that the "nation" saved money, and the evil corporation lost?

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@wingod

3 years

@thehill Yes Bernie, because NASA and Congress have done such a good job at it for the last 39 years.... NOT.... Bernie, retire, the old folks homes are depopulated now from COVID, I am sure they can find you a room.

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@wingod

3 years

@FriendOfTheYeti @CalebHowe @Mediaite Meet with the people who actually deal with the issues every day. Its called being a leader.

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@wingod

5 years

@kcjohnson9 @Mizzou There are some universities that need to be disbanded, everyone fired, then after everyone is gone, needs to be burned to the ground, and the dirt salted as a warning to the next 500 generations.

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@wingod

3 months

It is my opinion that today demarks historical periods, just as the first steamship, or the first flight of a heavier than air vehicle by the Wright brothers. Humanity's breakout into the solar system begins today.

Gennady Simanovsky

@GennadySimanovs

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@wingod Could you please elaborate on how big this event is?

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@wingod

5 years

@dpakman @Amy_Siskind What do you expect, you are at the bottom of the intersectional pyramid..

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@wingod

2 years

@aspenideas @xiyebastida Your goal, without including nuclear power as a central element of a sustainable future, dooms billions to starvation and early death.

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@wingod

1 year

A far better course. 1. Nuclear power, first fission, then fusion. 2. Electrification of transportation. 3. Hydrocarbon production from Sabatier process. 4. Lunar and Martian industrialization and settlement. 5. Asteroid resources. For a sustainable future. Your's isn't.

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@wingod

4 years

A very simple illustration regarding why the bottom of Shackelton is going to be a big fat pain in the rear to get to the water. THREE times as deep as the Grand Canyon.

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@wingod

2 years

This did not happen on a PC.

Amazing Physics

@amazing_physics

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Physics of flying Visualization of the air flow around the landing gear of a Boeing 777

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@wingod

2 years

Quote of the year: "I need ammunition, not a ride"... Whatever the outcome, this is what a man is like.

Shan

@genuinevid

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky refused the US's offer to evacuate him from Kyiv, saying, "I need ammunition, not a ride. Ukraine is lucky to have a brave President like you. 🙇🏻‍♂️💪 #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #russianinvasion

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@wingod

3 years

This is one of the most interesting space photos i have ever seen. Notice the transfer of electrical energy between the clouds and space. That is exceptionally cool.

Space station detectors spot the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning | Science News

The origins of an enigmatic type of lightning in the upper atmosphere has been traced to a 10-microsecond flash of bright blue light.

www.sciencenews.org

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@wingod

3 years

@antihero_kate Trips to Japan won't kiss you and tell you they love you as you lay there dying of old age.

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@wingod

3 months

Every single one of these groups, are anti-climate, and pro death. Without nuclear power it is impossible to operate a global civilization of 8+ billion humans. Perhaps that is their goal.

Angela Bischoff

@NoNukeBailouts

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More than 600 climate action groups - including 130 in #Canada - launched a declaration calling #nuclear a "distraction which slows down the energy transition." #gorenewable #canpoli #onpoli #climate

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@wingod

3 years

Finished my Lego Saturn V!

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@wingod

5 years

@DJSnM @elonmusk @ThePhoenixFlare Why does everyone always think that diverting comets is easy?

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@wingod

5 years

@APA_Monitor @burtonlee That is interesting considering 300,000 years of humanity with the traditional kind of masculinity.

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@wingod

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@7Rayoking @freedomrideblog Looks like the People's government did not give a damn about its people in war.

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@wingod

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@TwitterSupport You realize that you just set up mob rule right?

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@wingod

3 years

And productivity was high

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@wingod

1 year

Real climate action. 1. Nuclear power (fission first, then fusion) 2. Electrification of transportation. 3. Electrically generated liquid fuels (Sabatier process) 4. Resources from space. 5. Lunar industrialization, Mars settlement.

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@wingod

3 years

Does anyone know where LDEF is now?

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@wingod

2 years

This is something you don't see every day. Today Skycorp served a web page, from the ISS, through multiple GEO satellites, to a web browser on at our flight control center. @CaptFWA Its engineering data, but we did it! One temp sensor is dead.

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@wingod

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@DJSnM One of my uncle's was a machinist that milled some of the original parts for the SSME's.

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@wingod

2 years

Another exceptional Orion lunar photo... I was 12 years old the last time a human rated spacecraft was at lunar distance.....

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@wingod

5 years

@washingtonpost What in the hell are you people doing judging them for being imperfect?

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Wow, very interesting article about @SpaceX . Having watched the baby grow from infancy it is astonishing what @elonmusk has pulled off. However at least some of their rivals are their own worst enemies. Cantrell whining about SpaceX is funny.

Elon Musk Dominates Space Launch. Rivals Are Calling Foul.

Elon Musk aggressively elbowed his way into the space launch business over the past two decades, combining engineering genius and

dnyuz.com

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@wingod

3 years

1. The economic development of space is the key to our common global prosperous future. 2. Nuclear power is the only sustainable power source for civilization.

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@wingod

5 months

LOTS of water on Mars..

Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted.

www.space.com

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@wingod

2 years

My good friend Brad Blair, a great space mining advocate died of a heart attack. Fare well in the beyond my friend.

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3 years

Too funny to not post.

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This is pretty cool...

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1 year

@themarketswork @SecBlinken @MichaelJMorell @Jim_Jordan Anything associated with Brennan (communist), is automatically suspect.

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I was only vaguely aware of this, regarding president Richard Nixon's "Project Independence" Which was the goal to build 1,000 nuclear reactors by the year 2000 to make the U.S. energy independent. Just think how much different the would would be .

Project Independence - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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@SheIsImaniB @marclamonthill I know your people's history. Slavery, murder, child sacrifice. It was white European and American Christians that fixed that. So much for your superior morality. That is calling a spade a spade.

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@wingod

3 years

How many other companies do you know that have followers interested in these details?

Snow Rocket

@Furqan263

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#SpaceX #Starship #Starbase Wide Bay / New Bay Construction Progress as of 30th October 2021. - Busy end of week for construction of new bay. - 7 tall steel beams + 16 other beams added on Thursday and Friday.

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