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"To create a topic deliberately to provoke controversy is not helpful to the mission of the forum.'
What controversy? Are you disputing the CDC and Surgeon General of the United States??!!!
You must have a wall full of medical degrees and credentials to boldly challenge the CDC and our nations Surgeon General!
Please list your degrees. Thank you.
I have nothing more to say on this. The CDC and Surgeon General have said enough for anyone who follows the science.
As the Delta variant fuels rising U.S. cases, the C.D.C. director warns of a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated.’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-th … d=msedgntp
Follow the advice of health care workers and scientists, not quacks who falsely pretend to have medical skills or knowledge.
Mars Society Selected to Receive $1 Million from Blue Origin’s Club for the Future
https://www.marssociety.org/news/2021/0 … he-future/
NASA News Release: NASA, ESA Partner in New Effort to Address Global Climate Change
July 13, 2021
SG[Egypt] 2021 will be the first-ever Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) event in Egypt. The online virtual conference will be held on two days, July 10 and July 17. Register Now! The Mars Society Egypt, Secure World Foundation, Space Hero, Moon Village Association, Egyptian Society for Astronomy, Our Giant Leap and SpaceWatch.Global are sponsors/partners in this event.
For more information:
https://spacegeneration.org/event/sgegy … G8ZZRCN1Yc
Video: European Space Foundation "The First Humans on Mars" Interview with Dr. Robert Zubrin June 7, 2021
0:00 – Introduction
1:57 – How to conquer Mars and not call it Plan B?
7:24 – When the first cities will be built on Mars?
11:25 – Where people go next after Mars?
14:47 – What is The Mars Society
18:29 – How Elon Musk’s career in space started
22:47 – Future of The Mars Society
24:03 – Robert Zubrin as an inventor
28:47 - Robert’s own road to the space sector
36:49 - Advice for people passionate about the space sector
Dr. Robert Zubrin speech at the Space Renaissance Inaugural Congress June 26, 2021 Talk begins at 37:00 in the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma8WAwwQ9i0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLaUM2XbyJc
The Starship vehicle is poised to revolutionize human spaceflight. With SpaceX and NASA working together to develop Starship for the Artemis Program, our ambitions in space have profoundly changed. Aspiring Martian Colonist Dr Ryan MacDonald charts the course towards the first human missions to the Red Planet.
***** Chapters *****
0:00 - Introduction
1:20 - SpaceX Starship Overview
4:00 - Early Starship Hardware
5:00 - Starbase Boca Chica Begins
5:33 - Cryogenic Tests & Static Fires
8:06 - Starship Low-Altitude Flights
9:09 - Starship High-Altitude Flights
15:10 - Future of the Starship Program
15:50 - Super Heavy Construction
16:52 - Orbital Starship Design
17:49 - Orbital Starship Launch Profile
18:42 - Starbase Orbital Flight Preparations
19:11 - Starship Program Timeline (2020 - 2021)
20:05 - Starship Sea Launch Platforms
21:45 - Human Spaceflight Overview
22:39 - Commercial Astronaut Flights
25:17 - Artemis Program Overview
26:04 - Artemis I Updates
27:02 - Artemis II & Artemis III
29:40 - Lunar Starship Timeline (2022 - 2024)
32:27 - Starship Mars Missions
34:08 - Human Mars Mission Timeline (2024 - 2029)
34:35 - New 2021 Mars Missions
35:11 - Mars Hope (UAE)
37:33 - Tianwen-1 (China)
38:27 - Zhurong Rover (China)
39:37 - Perseverance Rover (USA)
42:31 - Ingenuity Helicopter (USA)
45:16 - Mars Sample Return
47:42 - Final Thoughts
Trump climate adviser compared ‘demonization’ of carbon dioxide to Jews’ treatment under Hitler
By Robert Schroeder
White House reporter
May 28, 2019
Read the claim. There is far less risk in using the Falcon and Falcon Heavy rockets which would be used for all of the SpaceX Air Force launches until 2025.
The Mars Society is pleased to announce that the organization was selected earlier this week as an official member of the Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium (USGC), which provides financial assistance and support to a wide variety of scientific institutions and initiatives across the state. The Consortium's board unanimously approved the Mars Society's membership during a meeting in Salt Lake City on Monday. Dr. Shannon Rupert, Director of the Mars Desert Research Station (#MDRS), will serve as the organization's appointed representative.
The Mars Society would also like to express its sincere appreciation to Dr. Bonnie Baxter, a Consortium trustee and Director of Westminster College's Great Salt Lake Institute, for her invaluable help in developing the relationship between USGC and the Mars Society. "I can't overstate the important and timely role Bonnie played in helping our organization build the necessary ties with members of the Consortium and help promote our Utah-based MDRS program," said Lucinda Offer, Mars Society Executive Director. Dr. Baxter is also one of the founding members of the recently-established Utah Mars Society chapter.
To learn more about USGC, please visit: https://www.utahspacegrant.com.
Here's the link to the 79 page SpaceX complaint with some redactions.
Robert Zubrin speaking June 7th at the International Space Development Conference sponsored by the National Space Society
Mars Society Utah Chapter leaders interviewed on Salt Lake City PBS TV Program. Must see TV!
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/chi … d=OEMDHP17
Article content:
Beijing’s main defense against trade-war fallout this year is more likely to come from the finance ministry than the central bank, no matter what President Donald Trump says.
If tariffs begin to really hurt China’s growth this year, there’s plenty of direct fiscal firepower left to stoke the economy before the People’s Bank of China would have to cut interest rates, according to an analysis of government spending by Bloomberg. Data released Wednesday showed an across-the-board slowdown in April.
Central and local authorities in China have at least 25.1 trillion yuan ($3.65 trillion) unspent in their budgets this year, data compiled using official budget plans show. That’s two trillion yuan more than the ammunition China had in the same period last year -- and about equivalent to the entire annual output of Germany.
“Chinese leaders will be able to better utilize different kinds of policy tools than their U.S. counterparts if the trade war persists, and that’s where China’s confidence comes from,” said Serena Zhou, an economist at Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd in Hong Kong. “From monetary policy and fiscal policy to the dominant role of the state-owned enterprises, China’s control on the economy is obviously stronger than the U.S.,” she said.
Indeed, PBOC Governor Yi Gang has spent the last year saying he wants to avoid a “flood” of stimulus, pushing back against expectations of benchmark interest-rate cuts as he seeks to curb market bubbles and keep a lid on debt growth.
That said, economists from Morgan Stanley and China International Capital Corporation to Macquarie Securities expect further cuts to the proportion of deposits banks are forced to lock away, as authorities look to keep the credit taps flowing.
The authorities have ramped up fiscal expenditure earlier this year than they usually do, with the most obvious front-loading coming in infrastructure-related areas such as transportation and environmental protection.
Even so, more than two thirds of the total “augmented” budget -- the general public budget, the government fund budget and special government bonds together -- remains unused.
Of course, merely increasing this year’s spending isn’t the limit of fiscal action if the trade war blows out and impacts economic growth significantly. Officials can support growth by selling more debt via local government financing vehicles and policy banks, though that begins to run counter to the goal of cleaning up debt.
“China may step up its pro-growth policies if the U.S. imposes additional tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods” and the preferable policy options include expansionary fiscal policy, such as tax and fee cuts, according to CICC economists.
A severe growth slowdown is likely to produce a “whatever it takes” moment for China’s policy makers. Otherwise, the Communist Party faces failure to meet its long-term growth target, just in time for its centenary in 2021.
Trump’s New Tariff Hit Threatens Xi’s 2020 Economic Growth Goal
For its part, the PBOC has also appeared to be leaning toward an easing bias since this month as trade tensions escalate.
Compared to the room for more fiscal stimulus, the PBOC has less space to maneuver and will likely stick to the “targeted approach” for now. Universal cuts to reserve-requirement ratios and interest rates are however on the table if the economy faces greater challenges, said Wang Yifeng, chief analyst of banking at Everbright Securities Co in Beijing.
The central bank has appeared to be more accommodative in open market operations since early May, adding liquidity to stabilize market sentiment. Monetary policy officials also sought to ease investors by saying it has ample policy room and tools to deal with any uncertainties.
“We can’t quantify the impact of the trade war on corporate sentiment, so the real influence may be larger” than what economist estimates suggest, which reinforces the case for more pro-growth policies, Hong-Kong-based Morgan Stanley economist Robin Xing said.
--With assistance from Shuqin Ding.
The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility"
Hardcover 405 Pages
Editorial Reviews
“At last, here is the vision we were aiming for when we landed on the Moon. The Case for Space is the case for the future!”
—BUZZ ALDRIN, Apollo 11
“Zubrin is one of our generation’s thought leaders in space exploration, and with The Case for Space he makes another major contribution to humanity’s journey to the stars. . . . A must-read for every human being who dares to look up at the sky and imagine that someday we too will be ever present there.”
—JIM CANTRELL, chief executive officer, Vector Launch Inc.
“The tools needed to move into space have radically changed in the last decade. Robert Zubrin has put together an excellent guide on how we got these amazing new machines and how we can now use them to break out into the solar system for the benefit of everyone. Highly recommended.”
—HOMER HICKAM, author of Rocket Boys
“Zubrin lays out a vision for our space program whose boldness and clarity of thought we have not seen since we took on the challenge of reaching for the Moon. This is the kind of thinking we need. Nothing great has ever been accomplished without courage.”
—JAMES R. HANSEN, New York Times–bestselling author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
“An exciting vision for the future of humanity in space. The narrative explains a practical, albeit challenging, path to the stars in the tradition of Mars Direct. "
—JOHN GRUNSFELD, Astronaut-Hubble Repairman, and former NASA Chief Scientist and Associate Administrator for Space Science
“One thousand years from now, whatever the human race has evolved into, we will look back and see the next few decades as the moment in time that the human race irreversibly moved off the Earth and to the stars. Why should we do that? It is our moral obligation, and in The Case for Space, Zubrin creates one of the most powerful and coherent arguments to date. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about the survival of our species.”
—PETER H. DIAMANDIS, MD, New York Times–bestselling author of Abundance and Bold
“Zubrin is a respected evangelist for manned spaceflight. This fascinating book—a distillation of his decades of expertise—combines a lucid exposition of future technologies with an eloquent and inspiring vision of humanity’s future as a space-faring species.”
—MARTIN REES, Astronomer Royal, past president of the Royal Society, and author of On the Future
“Beyond this tiny speck whirls a universe—truly everything. All who want their heirs to share some of that should read Robert Zubrin’s fact-filled call for a push beyond our planet. As it happens, out there lie the tools, resources, and keys to saving our earthly garden home.”
—DAVID BRIN, bestselling, award-winning author of The Postman, Earth, and Existence”
OVERVIEW
A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it.
A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are not superpowers but competing entrepreneurs. These daring pioneers are creating a revolution in spaceflight that promises to transform the near future. Astronautical engineer Robert Zubrin spells out the potential of these new developments in an engrossing narrative that is visionary yet grounded by a deep understanding of the practical challenges.
Fueled by the combined expertise of the old aerospace industry and the talents of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, spaceflight is becoming cheaper. The new generation of space explorers has already achieved a major breakthrough by creating reusable rockets. Zubrin foresees more rapid innovation, including global travel from any point on Earth to another in an hour or less; orbital hotels; moon bases with incredible space observatories; human settlements on Mars, the asteroids, and the moons of the outer planets; and then, breaking all limits, pushing onward to the stars.
Zubrin shows how projects that sound like science fiction can actually become reality. But beyond the how, he makes an even more compelling case for why we need to do this—to increase our knowledge of the universe, to make unforeseen discoveries on new frontiers, to harness the natural resources of other planets, to safeguard Earth from stray asteroids, to ensure the future of humanity by expanding beyond its home base, and to protect us from being catastrophically set against each other by the false belief that there isn't enough for all.
Here's the publishers link.
Like a true Trumpite kbd512 is long on wind, flapping his jaw endlessly, and short on facts and truth.
Everyone here understands that …. except for loyal Trumpites who are easily fooled by America's number # con man, the liar in chief Trump
and believe whatever political spin Trump's chief propagandists and apologists dish out.
No I did not vote for Hilary Clinton
Trump would have been charged with obstruction were he not president, hundreds of former federal prosecutors assert
by Matt Zapotosky
Washington Post
May 6, 2019
Read the article if you haven't been brainwashed by the ultra-right white supremacists and other degenerates.
"He's the one who's visited a one party state that currently has millions of its citizens locked up and being maltreated in horrendous concentration camps."
Do you have a credible source for that news? Or should I have written "please post a link to your incredible source for that truly fake news".
I heard from a Trumpeter that the leader of the Chinese CP personally beheaded 500 million, or was it billion, Chinese who did not not express their deep love for all Chinese government leaders.
You can now post that claim as real news on other discussion boards. Like Trump's twits it does not have to be the truth or verified.
Be like your role model, Trump, just write and post whatever crazy idea happens to penetrate your cranium!
Seig Trump!
Maybe explains the China trip...Hillary likes the Chinese Communist dictatorship. The Chinese Communists hate Trump.
So will you now be joining the extreme right-wing minority here in personally attacking our Mars Society President, Robert Zubrin.
Why are these alleged "Chinese communists" endorsing and promoting capitalism in China and in the world?
They abandoned the Stalinist version of Marxism decades ago.
So now kbd512 has been reduced to knocking our President Robert Zubrin as a "semi-retired rocket scientist "!!!
What a desperate Trumpite he has become.
Once again you have failed to provide the slightest bit of evidence to back up your conspiracy claims so they can be ignored by all serious people.
That's why so few reply to your long winded hogwash on political matters.
You still haven't figured that out.
Very Trumpian of you.
The first investigative report turned up a lot of evidence that certainly warrants removal from office for obstruction of justice and failure to comply with the oath of office to defend and protect the Constitution.
But that's just a little slap on the wrist.
If Trump and members of his family are indicted and found guilty of criminal business activities and tax evasion they should be sent to prison.
How can any true patriot disagree with that?
I think Congress should wait until they uncover all of the money laundering and other financial corruption of the Trump crime family.
Let's see all of their tax returns, financial statements, banking information. Trump Foundation, foreign business interests, tax evasion, etc. That's what Trump and his family are really worried about being exposed.