Robert Zubrin
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Science, Space Exploration, & Energy Technology. Freethinker. For human liberty and the Western alliance.
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@ClaireBerlinski
The world is intrinsically not predictable. That is a good thing, because it means that we will never possess all knowledge, and therefore there will always be new knowledge. It means that the present can never control the future, and therefore humanity will always be free.
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Elon Musk just gave $44 billion dollars to the former owners of Twitter that they can now use to end hunger, disease, poverty, war, and injustice.
Which they will do first?
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I’m a conservative. I voted for Ronald Reagan twice, for GW Bush twice, for John McCain, Mitt Romney, & Nikki Haley.
I’m voting for
#KamalaHarris
because we need to defend the free world and can’t do it with a corrupt treasonous Putin-allied lunatic pervert in the White House.
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I’m a conservative. I voted for Ronald Reagan twice, for GW Bush twice, for John McCain, Mitt Romney, & Nikki Haley.
I’m voting for
#KamalaHarris
because we need to defend the free world and can’t do it with a corrupt treasonous Putin-allied lunatic pervert in the White House.
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I'm a conservative.
If the Republican Party wanted me to vote for their candidate they should have nominated someone who doesn't support Putin's war against the free world.
Instead, I will need to vote for Harris, because she is the most conservative candidate in the race.
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Disgraceful action by Blue Origin.
NEWS: Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin has filed a comment to the FAA saying they should cap SpaceX's Starship launches from Cape Canaveral due to "impact on local environment".
Blue Origin, founded in 2000 (~2 years before SpaceX), has not reached orbit yet.
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I have two groups of twitter friends:
Space geeks and politics freaks. The spacers are the sane ones.
I think it’s pretty clear we’d all be much better off if people spent more time thinking about exploring the universe and less about fighting for power on Earth. Look up.
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To help Germany survive the Russian gas cut off this winter, Ukraine will send Germany 5,000 candles in June 2024, provided that Germans can be trained in their use.
Matches will follow by Q4 of 2025.
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#Mars
#terraforming
skeptic misses the point.
We don’t terraform Mars to have a back up planet in case we screw up the Earth.
The idea is to have another planet to partner with Earth in spreading life to the stars.
Together to Mars.
Together with Mars.
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Here are some new paintings of a terraformed
#Mars
by Ukrainian artist Dmytro Ivashchenko.
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Prince William blasts space tourism and says billionaires should focus on fox hunting, blood diamonds, horse racing, and yachts.
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Biden could send Ukraine arms right now by emergency decree, as he did twice in 2022.
Biden could confiscate Russian assets and use them to pay for arms to
#Ukraine
.
Biden could send arms to Ukraine without paying to restock US supplies.
Biden could send arms to Ukraine by Lend
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Congratulations to
@elonmusk
, the
@SpaceX
team, and the
@inspiration4
crew for taking the next giant leap in making humanity a spacefaring species. On to Mars!
#Mars
#Space
#Science
#MarsSociety
#SpaceX
#NASA
#Inspiration4
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Hope & I travelled to Boca Chica yesterday to meet with Elon Musk. He explained
#SpaceX
’s extraordinary plan to begin the settlement of Mars,which was very much in evidence as hundreds of people were lined up outside to join his team building Starships.
#Mars
#Space
#MarsSociety
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China just cancelled a $500 million investment in Russian gas.
They are probably seeking more predatory terms.
China is not a charity operation.
China has Russia over a barrel.
If Russia does not pull out of Ukraine fast, China will take it all.
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It’s totally unfair that SpaceX was chosen over BO!
SpaceX has barely reached orbit a hundred times, whereas BO has...
Blue Origin filed a protest with the GAO Monday over NASA’s decision to select only SpaceX for its Human Landing System program, arguing the agency “moved the goalposts” of the competition.
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Disgusting. Governor Newsom endorses Confederate line that America was founded on slavery.
No, Mr. Newsom, America was founded on liberty.
Furthermore, 2,100,000 American soldiers fought, and 500, 000 died, to free the slaves.
CA just became the first state in the nation to mandate the study and development of proposals for reparations.
Our past is one of slavery, racism, and injustice. Our systems were built to oppress people of color.
It’s past time we acknowledge that.
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If
@JoeBiden
$2 trillion “infrastructure to fight climate change” bill was actually for that purpose, he could build 400 nuclear power plants with that much cash and completely decarbonize America’s grid.
Unfortunately, it’s just a slush fund.
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@IAPonomarenko
@_JakubJanda
He needs to do much more than “be ready.”
He needs to send fighter jets, main battle tanks, and 155 mm ammo to Ukraine right now.
Especially fighter jets. Ukraine needs air power.
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@McFaul
@MariaSchenetzke
Russia signed peace deal with Ukraine, the USA, and the UK in 1994.
Putin has since violated it entirely.
There is no point negotiating a new peace deal with Russia until it honors the terms of the one it already signed, and fully compensates
#Ukraine
, the US, and the UK for all
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Over the past 2 weeks since the vaccines were legal, 2 million Americans have been vaccinated. Over the same period, 3 million Americans caught
#CV19
.
The vaccination rate is so slow that you have a better chance of catching the disease than getting vaccinated.
Total incompetence
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Did you see
@TheRickWilson
on Chris HayesMSNBC show tonight? OMG. He nailed Bannon and Trump for obstruction of justice. Impeachment coming
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Use $300 Billion in Russian frozen reserves to finance
#Ukraine
. Superb article in Wall Street Journal.
Could be a decisive action.
@ClaireBerlinski
@McFaul
@anders_aslund
@NTenzer
@OlenaHalushka
@CliffordDMay
@mhmck
@elonmusk
ReTweet
#StandWithUkraine
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“Revive the US space program? How about not”
The Guardian discredits itself with another putrid article poo pooing progress.
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Nuclear power has been banned from the “climate” conference.
No further comment is required.
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Here’s the calendar for the rest of 2020. Plan accordingly.
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Ukraine got more military equipment from Russia in the past 3 days than it has received from Germany in the past 6 months.
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The Russian convoy sent to attack Kyiv has run out of fuel!
Did the Putin gang steal the gas money?
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What is truly remarkable about Bezos failure at BO is that he is failing despite Musk having shown him the way succeed:
Build, fly, crash, fix, fly the next one, keep going till it works.
Bezos has the resources to adopt such an approach. But he hasn’t. It’s all on him.
#Space
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There is no reason to suspect Trump colluded with Russia except for the fact that his campaign was supported by Kremlinite staff, funds, agitprop, black ops, trolls, thugs, and supported destroying the Western alliance.
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Trump is in France, to celebrate Bastille Day by visiting Napoleon's Tomb.(I am not making this up.)
The 1st time as tragedy.The 2nd time...
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The JJ vaccine has a 1 per million chance of causing a blood clot.
Exercise for students:
Assume you have a life expectancy of 80 years.
What is the average chance you will die within any month? Within any day? Within any hour?
Which is riskier; taking JJ or sleeping 8 hours?
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My Nuclear Salt Water Rocket!
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@KonstantinKisin
What makes you imagine that the the coward who surrendered Afghanistan to the ragheads is “strong?”
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Lesson: Next time someone makes a film about a mission to
#Mars
, they need to make it about a mission to Mars, not about dreary relationships.
“Apollo 13” was not about marital problems.
#Space
#MarsSociety
#SpaceX
#NASA
#Film
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Haley is rising fast in South Carolina. A few weeks ago she was polling at 21%. The latest poll gives her 31%.
She has 4 weeks to overtake Trump.
She can do it.
We can do it.
Don’t listen to the defeatists who trumpet Trumps line that he is unstoppable.
He is just a treasonous
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It takes no energy to produce green hydrogen.
Green hydrogen is produced by magic.
Germany 🇩🇪 has some of most environmentally friendly trains in the world. They are powered by hydrogen and oxygen. The only waste they produce is water.
We have the solutions. Time to ditch fossil fuels & implement them.
#ActOnClimate
#climate
#energy
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In a desperate attempt to flee global warming, millions of Americans are moving to Florida, Texas, and Arizona.
@JunkScience
@AlexEpstein
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The best energy storage that exists is a kilogram of uranium.
A 1 kg Li-ion battery can store 4.5e5 joules
1 kg of U235 can provide 9e13 joules
You would have to recharge a 1 kg battery 200 million times to yield the same energy as 1 kg U235.
That’s once a day for 600,000 years.
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My article about my observations about
@elonmusk
’s plans to settle Mars following our recent meeting in Boca Chica was just published by National Review.
@SciGuySpace
@jeff_foust
#Mars
#Space
#Science
#NASA
#SpaceX
#MarsSociety
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@McFaul
@MalcolmNance
We can give peace a chance by giving
#Ukraine
100 F16s, 300 ATACMS, 20 Patriots, 200 A10s, and 500 tanks.
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@TimothyDSnyder
Bunk. The USA was not built by slavery. It was built by freedom.
If slavery could build great nations, the USSR would have been a great success.
Why are you pushing such nonsense?
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For some reason, I suspect that this story is not true.
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I’m 71 today. The weather being fine, I decided to celebrate by cycling into Golden. Had some ice cream, and found a game store. They told me that Terraforming Mars is selling great.
#Mars
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The argument that vaccines should not be mandated is a libertarian position.
The argument that vaccines should not be permitted is a totalitarian position.
The argument that vaccines are not effective is an idiotic position.
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My old friend Kepler, border collie extraordinaire, passed away today at age 13. In his youth, he could jump a 4 ft fence as if it wasn’t there. He once fought off two coyotes. His was a co author on several technical reports to NASA.
Now he roams the Elysian Fields. Farewell.
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I went on a hike today with the Colorado mountain club. 8 miles, 1,400 ft gain.
Not bad for a 72 year old time traveler.
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If we want to cripple Putin we should offer a green card to every Russian with a technical degree who wants to emigrate to the USA. That would destroy Russia’s technical base within 6 months, and greatly strengthen our ability to deal with the Chinese economic challenge.
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I’m 70 today. My daughter gave me this for a present. It’s funny, but it suits. The years are getting to me, physically. But my soul still feels like it did when I was 25, ready to rear and ride out and smash the power of the Lords of Stupidity. She sees it. Thanks, Rachel.
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@EWErickson
They are. Supporting Russian conquest of Ukraine is a betrayal of the defense of the free world, and with it, the defense of America.
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Swiss weapons should not be used in wars. They are strictly for use by criminal gangs.
"Swiss weapons should not be used in wars.”
Swiss President Alain Berset defends his decision to prevent Swiss arms being sent to Ukraine. If they cannot be used in wars, what exactly is the point of Swiss weapons?
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@elonmusk
It’s about 250 times easier to take CO2 out of flue gas from smokestacks before it reaches the atmosphere.
100,000 ppm vs 400 ppm.
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If renewables could supply reliable cheap energy I would be for them.
If renewables could supply reliable cheap energy the Greens would oppose them.
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And now they get to fly the same ship again and again, perfecting the operation until they can do it blindfolded, and it’s no longer news.
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Hilarious. Instead of riding Starship from Earth to Moon,
#NASA
says they will fly on SLS-Orion & meet Starship in lunar orbit. Adds $2 billion in cost, plus extra risk to every mission, for no reason except to keep spending on SLS/Orion.
@jeff_foust
@SciGuySpace
#Space
#SpaceX
Q_how does this integrate w/SLS-Orion.
Watson-Morgan: SLS/Orion will take crew to lunar orbit, then transfer to Starship, or Gateway and then Starship.
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A grand time to be alive.
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@Space_Strategy
A Falcon Heavy could deliver Dragon to the Gateway. The Delta V going to Gateway from LEO is 3.1 km/s, less than the Delta-V going to GEO, which is 4.2 km/s.
The problem is that Artemis is not a purpose-driven program.
#Artemis
is a vendor-driven program.
Artemis does not spend
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SpaceX is now launching Falcons at a rate of 1 per week!
What the
#NASA
Shuttle program set forth as an unrealized dream,
#SpaceX
is now actually doing!
@elonmusk
SpaceX cadence update after today's mission.
Time to launch first dozen Falcon 9 rockets: More than three years.
Time to launch (and land) its last dozen Falcon 9 rockets: Fewer than three months.
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@BradBeauregardJ
If Johnson refuses to Ukraine aid for border security deal, Crenshaw can, and should bring down Johnson.
He should then stand for Speaker himself.
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If you want to explore Venus, don’t use a lander.
Use balloons. They can fly all over the planet, last much longer than a lander, and float in the atmospheric layer where the phosphine has been detected.
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To the
@shannonmstirone
article,I say:
We don’t go to
#Mars
to desert the Earth.We go to Mars to add to Earth.
If living planets are good, we want more of them.
Instead of fighting over provinces,we should work together to create worlds.
Together to Mars, then together with Mars.
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Winter is coming.
You can’t power a grid with bullshit.
The choice is fossil fuels or
#nuclear
power.
In engineering, there is no substitute for truth.
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Trump is supporting Putin-backed Venezuelan dictator Maduro.
The treason of the Putin Republicans has no limit.
Donald Trump: “Venezuela is right now being run by a dictator...If you look at Caracas, it was known for being a very dangerous city, and now it’s very safe... It’s safer than many of our cities.”
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@Tendar
Precisely so.
The key to understanding this period is to read Winston Churchill’s book, The Gathering Storm.
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My new book, "The Case for Nukes: How to Beat Global Warming and Create and Free, Open, and Magnificent Future," publishes today!
Nuclear power can break all limits on the human future.
That's why the Malthusians hate it.
That's why we need it!
Please RT.
You can get yours in
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Is it ethical to confine humanity to one planet?
I think not.
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NASA Inspector General report says that Artemis costs will run $93 billion though FY2025, and that each SLS/Orion launch will cost $4.1 billion.
How is this even possible?
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Long overdue.
The NASA space medicine zero gravity health effects mafia has resisted testing artificial gravity as a countermeasure to zero g health effects for 60 years.
Early results from ISS tests comparing partial gravity levels over roughly 30 days of flight time on ISS for mouse boneloss. Mars gravity looks sufficient to equal 1G gravity in terms of bone strength. This is a huge result! Thanks for your hard work,
@Annadromeda_
!
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Totally absurd mission architecture.
NASA's Crewed Mars Mission Architecture (Current Plan)
This infographic describes NASA's mission plan in detail from first launch to final touchdown back on Earth. (You may need to zoom in to read everything)
NASA plans to update this mission profile in "a few weeks".
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14 space organizations including the
#MarsSociety
, the
#NSS
, and the
#AllianceForSpaceDevelopmemt
have issued a joint statement calling for rapid
#FAA
approval of
#Starship
test flights.
#Space
#SpaceX
#NASA
#Mars
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Translation: China is taking over Central Asia.
Siberia will be next.
🇨🇳🇰🇿Xi Jinping: "No matter how the international situation changes, we will continue to resolutely support Kazakhstan in protecting its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity"
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"If it Hadn't Been for the Prompt Work of the Medics": FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny - bellingcat
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