Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Administrivia on Jan 23rd, 2012
Whenever I’m stuck in proposal writing hell, I tend to come up with all sorts of fun ideas for blog posts. But my inner adult likes reminding me “if you have the mental bandwidth to be doing creative writing, you should be getting those proposals written so you can get Altius more money, not having [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Jan 18th, 2012
In protest of SOPA/PIPA, I’m not going to do any other blog posts today. That is all.
Posted in Administrivia on Nov 16th, 2011
I got a subtle reminder today from Will Pomerantz and Ben Brockert, that I in fact have this blog thing, and that I probably shouldn’t be using twitter for blog posts… [Of course the real reason I do stuff like that on Twitter is because my adult supervision at Altius doesn't do Twitter, which allows [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Oct 17th, 2011
Sorry about the lightblogging. I’ve had a long year the past two or three months… I’ll give more details on Altius-specific stuff on the ASM blog (including some eye-candy) when I get done with a Space Angels Network pitch in Palo Alto this week, and the SEDS SpaceVision 2011 conference next week, but here’s a [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Aug 3rd, 2011
Sorry for the long silence again, but I’ve been busy doing cool things at Altius. More bloggy goodness to come soon, hopefully.
Posted in Administrivia, Altius Space Machines on Jul 6th, 2011
It’s kind of crazy to realize that a year ago today was the day when I formally “took the plunge”, and left my old company to start Altius Space Machines. While it was a very scary decision at the time–I only had a tiny bit over $10k in the bank, no contracts setup in advance, [...]
Posted in Administrivia, LFTRs on May 23rd, 2011
I just read today that Selenian Boondocks coblogger, Kirk Sorensen, just stepped down as Chief Nuclear Technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering to start his own company, Flibe Energy, focused on commercializing his LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) technology. Way to go Kirk! I like the angle he’s taking. While this reactor is nominally a power-generator, [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Altius Space Machines on Apr 18th, 2011
…to that other blog I run. In today’s blog post, I just opened the kimono a bit about our new rendezvous and docking product (the tractor beam I’ve hinted at) and committed to try and do at least one short blog post per day for the next month while we push through a major product [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Propellant Depots on Apr 7th, 2011
I forgot to throw the link up over here, but I put my presentation for the Space Show Classroom up on my Altius Blog. Here’s a link. [Update: I had a glaring error on one of the slides pointed out. It turns out that an inclined plane in LEO will only line up with an [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Feb 2nd, 2011
Wow. Selenian Boondocks officially passed the 400,000 site visits mark sometime this afternoon. For a blog mostly focused on such a small niche topic (space technology, politics, and business), it’s kind of cool to reach a milestone like this. Thanks everyone for all the support, especially when the blogging ends up being so light sometimes! [...]