13 thoughts on “Happy 2020”

  1. The SSL cert for transterrestrial.com expired on 12/12/19, you might want to have your hosting company fix that.

  4. I hope the Space industry has an exciting year, but not too exciting (No manned RUDs, for example).

    And a few minutes ago when I was reading a piece about upcoming manned missions, my mind went back to a slug of liquid propellant in a high-pressure helium line, accelerating and slamming into a check valve.

    It occurred to me that if the high pressure line was slightly helical, centripetal forces should smear any liquid slug along the surface of the bend, like a liquid/gas centrifugal separator, and perhaps prevent the kind of problem they had.

  6. Happy New Year to all from Australia.

    It is the 3rd of January already here and south east Australia is still burning. Sorry about the Eucalyptus trees we sent you guys. They burn really well.

    1. We planted lots of Australian gum trees over the past century. I had a lot of them in my yard. They burn well!

  7. Happy New Year!

    I think SpaceX is going to have to build a visitor’s gallery at Boca Chica. The security guards last week were getting rather peeved at all the tourists stopping on “private” property (their side of the state highway).

    Rand, maybe you should consider getting an SSL cert, everybody seems to be going to secure HTML these days …

    1. I think SpaceX is going to have to build a visitor’s gallery at Boca Chica.

      A business opportunity for someone with a little cash to invest.

  9. At the Baghdad Airport, the white zone is for loading, unloading, and airstrikes only. If you can load, unload, or be an airstrike target, go to the white zone.

    1. President Clinton is impeached. He orders an air strike on an aspirin factory.

      President Trump is impeached (well, kind of, sort of). He orders an air strike on whom the NYT will describe as the pharmaceutical rep.

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