Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 14th, 2012
guest blogger john hare Since finding out it was a bad idea to blog technical on space hardware ideas, I haven’t been writing at all. I listen to a variety of talk shows on the truck radio in dribs and drabs at work and found that listening to people talk trash that I couldn’t respond [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2011
I gave a talk at the Calgary session of TEDx on April 1, 2011 and lunar exploration formed an aspect of my talk, I hope you enjoy it.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 19th, 2011
occasional blogger john hare I have listened to some doomsday energy crap (gas $5.00 gallon and more forever, Japanese nuclear devastation, etc) in the last few weeks that started me thinking of alternatives again. It may be possible that one of the solar thermal generating concepts could find funding for terrestrial applications in the current mood. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2011
I hope Jon doesn’t get too mad at me for “cross-posting” like this, but I published something at “Energy from Thorium” that may be of interest to this blog community as well: Google TechTalk Slides: “Save the Uranium-233″ Please direct comments over there.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2011
If some investigation is done that supports the use of a high rpm/small diameter module to promote health, then the question of cost and schedule becomes important. I think an early economical method might be to reuse an expendable upper stage that would otherwise burn up on reentry. Depending on what upper stages are available to a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 2nd, 2011
One of the sticking point of long duration missions to other planets is the bone and muscle loss during extended periods in free fall. Using very small centrifuges to simulate gravity has the problem of causing motion sickness with 3 rpms being the accepted limit for selected humans. 10 rpms is considered impossible for anyone to adjust to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2010
guest blogger john hare One good thing about the current congress/senate/president funding mess is that we won’t have to listen to as many cranks start their rocket development plan with, “First we convince the president.”
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2010
guest blogger john hare There have been many comments over the years on many sites about cost plus being used when nobody has any idea of the costs of a project or how to bid it. This morning on Clark’s site spacetransportnews.com he linked to an article claiming that getting bids was so uncertain that contractors [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2010
guest blogger john hare Many of us have complained from time to time about the lack of true progress from NASA even while agreeing that there are a lot of very smart motivated people in the agency. It would be useful if some way could be found to use the capabilities of those skilled people without [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 10th, 2010
guest blogger john hare There is a fairly constant murmur that commercial space will not go beyond LEO and more mumbling that there must be a specific destination with a specific timeline. The second mumbling assumes that there is some top down command structure that will make one thing happen regardless of obstacles or opportunities along the way. [...]