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by dmshiplo
Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:39 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Focus Fusion news story
Replies: 296
Views: 106505

Wouldn't a direct energy converter need to be an integral part of the reactor?
by dmshiplo
Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Billionaire-backed asteroid mining venture starts
Replies: 12
Views: 5299

Saw this on CNN as well. A very interesting development. I wouldn't have guessed people would be looking to this sort of operation before we put more infrastructure in LEO first.
by dmshiplo
Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Its all about the lobbying money, for all of them...
Replies: 4
Views: 2811

I can only imagine how much progress we'd have made in space exploration in the last 40 years if not for the personal agendas of politicians looking out for themselves. Hopefully this current round of meddling doesn't gain any traction.
by dmshiplo
Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Space X to build reusable launch vehicle
Replies: 390
Views: 124268

This was posted on SpaceX's Twitter:

http://p.twimg.com/Amr-Go5CEAATWWZ.jpg:large

Looking good! I'm very optimistic about SpaceX's progress.