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Jun 30

Mining Geography of the Solar System

The XKCD webcomic on surface area inspired me and I’ve thought about what it does and doesn’t tell us about the physical reality of our…

Mining Geography of the Solar System

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Jun 13

Mass-driver to L1

Mistakes were made in my last post on the L1 diamond stabilizer when talking about the reach-ability by a mass-driver on the surface of the…

Mass-driver to L1

Alan

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Jun 11

L1 Diamond Stabilizer

Lagrange points L1, L2, and L3 are unstable, and that means some propellant is normally needed for station-keeping. This negatively affects…

L1 Diamond Stabilizer

Alan

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May 26

The Obvious Super-Strong Anthropic Argument

civilization’s ultimate function is cosmogenesis

The Obvious Super-Strong Anthropic Argument

Alan

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May 18

Stealth by a Long Tube

Follow-up to my last post, I got some forum feedback, and also completely changed my position about what the best design is.

Stealth by a Long Tube

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May 8

The Inverted Hourglass: Stealth by Sunlight Pass-Through

In far-future warfare, where both sides are space-faring, we don’t know how much of a role stealth (avoiding detection) in open space might…

The Inverted Hourglass: Stealth by Sunlight Pass-Through

Alan

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Jun 3, 2021

On Fiat and Law

This is my third article on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), Here are the prior ones. Hopefully this one will be better.

Alan

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Mar 27, 2021

I Still Believe The National Debt is a Big Problem

I have finished digesting Chapter 3 of The Deficit Myth, and I still don’t agree with its premise that the national debt is not a big…

Alan

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Mar 19, 2021

My journey into MMT

Taking a break from my history reading, I wish to once again wear the hat of the armchair macroeconomist.

Alan

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Aug 19, 2019

LEO Catchers as a Launch Assist System

I mentioned this topic on this blog a few times:

Alan

Alan

Obligatory analytical writing, online participation account for Medium. Engineering, software, books, space, constant daydreaming.

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