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Blog Post #1187, Has Life Been Discovered on Mars?

Blog Post #1187, Has Life Been Discovered on Mars?

  March 2, 2022 Technical Discussion: Has Life Discovered on Mars…on July 30th, 1976? But first, an update on the Starship Orbital Mission Test Starship Watch Update: Another Delay-Thanks FAA IDK. What is with the delays already?  Does someone at the FDA just have thin skin? Are they trying to slow SpaceX down? Or is there some, as of yet undisclosed valid reason why they feel the need to…

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Blog Post #1186, What if SpaceX had Announced an Altogether Different Update?

Blog Post #1186, What if SpaceX had Announced an Altogether Different Update?

                            Jeff W. Horton   February 13, 2022 Starship Watch Update: What if SpaceX had Announced an Altogether Different Update?     Good day to you my intrepid readers, followers, & fans. On February 10, 2022, Elon Musk provided the world the first update on Starship in three years. Today I have a special treat for you. From the mind of Jeff W. Horton… I give to you now, an…

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Blog Post #1184, Some Speculation, Pontificating, Reminiscing, and a Little WTF

Blog Post #1184, Some Speculation, Pontificating, Reminiscing, and a Little WTF

                                 Jeff W. Horton January 26, 2022 Free Flow Thinking: Some Speculation, Pontificating, Reminiscing, and a Little WTF   Starship Watch Update: Starship SN20 sitting near the booster at Starbase/Boca Chica, TX on January 26, 2022. Image Courtesy of LabPadre It seems everything will remain on-hold with Starship at least until the end of February pending the FAA’s…

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Blog Post #1183, SpaceX’s Starship Orbital Test and Infuriating Government Delays

Blog Post #1183, SpaceX’s Starship Orbital Test and Infuriating Government Delays

                            Author Jeff W. Horton January 19, 2022 Free Flow Thinking: SpaceX’s Starship Orbital Test and Infuriating Government Delays Hello everyone. My apologies to you, most sanguine and learned of citizens, for the lapse in posts over the past few months. I expect to be back at it with briefer, more pithy posts about exciting new events going on in the world around you. You…

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Blog Post #1177, Unidentified

Blog Post #1177, Unidentified

                                         Author Jeff W. Horton July 21, 2021 Free Flow Thinking: Unidentified Starship Watch Update: SpaceX conducts successful static fire of Super Heavy booster rocket for Starship SpaceX test fire massive Super Heavy booster for Starship for 1st time (video )https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-rocket-booster-engine-test Edging ever-so-closer to…

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Blog Post #1175, Exciting Events This Month in Space

Blog Post #1175, Exciting Events This Month in Space

                         Author Jeff W. Horton July 12, 2021 Free Flow Thinking: Exciting Events This Month in Space Good evening, my most cerebral, magnanimous, judicial, and most steadfast of readers. Welcome to another edition of The Horton Post. My deepest and most sincere apologies for the inconsistency of my posts as of late. Like many of you, I find myself subject to external forces beyond…

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Author Jeff W. Horton, Blog Post #1174, Craft Using an Inertial Mass Reduction Device

Author Jeff W. Horton, Blog Post #1174, Craft Using an Inertial Mass Reduction Device

                                   Author Jeff W. Horton June 29, 2021 Technical Discussion: Craft Using an Inertial Mass Reduction Device   Starship Watch Update: Preparations continue for the launch of launch of Starship on its first orbital flight. This will also be the inaugural flight of the Super Heavy Booster as well. If all goes according to plan, the launch will occur sometime in July.…

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Blog Post #1172, King of the Hill, First Contact, and Government Patents

Blog Post #1172, King of the Hill, First Contact, and Government Patents

               Author Jeff W. Horton June 16, 2021 Free Flow Thinking: King of the Hill, First Contact, and Government Patents From the day that Cain slew his brother Abel until now, human beings have murdered and butchered one another. War has been with us every step of the way as Man discovered fire, as he moved from hunter-gatherer to farmer, from farmer to merchant. War was with us when we…

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Blog Post #1169, The American Race to Mars: NASA or Private Enterprise; Who Will Get there First?                                                    

           Author Jeff W. Horton Blog Post #1169 May 27, 2021 Technology Discussion: The American Race to Mars: NASA or Private Enterprise; Who Will Get there First?                                                                                                          Starship Watch Update: Hello everyone! Well, no surprises here, I suppose. Nothing seems to be happening with Starship at the…

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Blog Post #1168, If you could extend your life by another hundred years, would you?

Blog Post #1168, If you could extend your life by another hundred years, would you?

                  Author Jeff W. Horton May 12, 2021 Technical Discussion: If you could extend your life by another hundred years, would you? Starship Watch Update: In a fantastic, historic first on May 5th, SpaceX successfully launched and landed, for the first time (without exploding) a SpaceX Starship, SN15, the company’s top man, Elon Musk, announced the likelihood that SN15 will fly again in…

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Blog Post #1167, Success! Congratulations SpaceX and Starship SN15!

Blog Post #1167, Success! Congratulations SpaceX and Starship SN15!

                    Author Jeff W. Horton May 6, 2021 Technical Discussion: Success! Congratulations, SpaceX and Starship SN15! History was made at 5:24 PM Central Daylight Time today in Boca Chica, Texas, when SpaceX launched, flew, and then landed Starship SN15 on the same launchpad from which it took off some six minutes earlier. The prototype rocket, successfully launched, completed its…

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Blog Post #1166, The Future, Technology, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday

Blog Post #1166, The Future, Technology, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday

                                    Author Jeff W. Horton April 28, 2021 Free Flow Thinking: The Future, Technology, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday Starship Watch Update: It’s on! Starship SN15 appears to be VERY close to taking flight now. Yeah, I know, that’s exactly what I said last week. This time, it really does seem imminent. Why? Because of the successful Static Fire Test they ran on…

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Blog Post #1165, First In Freedom-Martian Style

Blog Post #1165, First In Freedom-Martian Style

                     Author Jeff W. Horton April 21, 2021 Technical Discussion: First In Freedom-Martian Style They did it! Another grand achievement for mankind! Yes, for humanity, not just for the United States, though i am terribly proud of the country of my birth. I believe, I hope, that space travel, with the many new challenges we will face as we traverse the stars, can serve to help unite…

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Blog Post #1164, Could Russia, China, or even Cyber-Terrorists use Cyber-Warfare to Meltdown a Nuclear Power Plant in America?

Blog Post #1164, Could Russia, China, or even Cyber-Terrorists use Cyber-Warfare to Meltdown a Nuclear Power Plant in America?

                                 Author Jeff W. Horton April 14, 2021 Technology Discussion: Could Russia, China, or even Cyber-Terrorists use Cyber-Warfare to Meltdown a Nuclear Power Plant in America? But first, a Starship Update… Starship Watch Update: Okay, some good news and some bad news. I’ll assume you’re like me and like to get the bad news out of the way, so here it is; it doesn’t look…

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Blog Post #1163, What do Blue Whales, Great White Sharks, and People Have in Common?

Blog Post #1163, What do Blue Whales, Great White Sharks, and People Have in Common?

Author Jeff W. Horton April 8, 2021 Free Flow Thinking: What do Fish, Blue Whales, and People Have in Common? And no, the answer isn’t going to be that they all swim in the ocean. Come on my bright, intelligent, erudite readers! Most of you know me better than that by now. But trust me, the answer will be obvious once I tell you, and there will be no room for argument as the facts are in black…

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Blog Post #1162, A Starship Update

Blog Post #1162, A Starship Update

                    Author Jeff W. Horton April 1, 2021 Technical Discussion: A Starship Update A warm Good Friday to you all, my friends. From my family to yours I hope you have a most blessed Easter Weekend. Starship Watch Update: As many of you know by now, SpaceX’s latest test flight of its new Starship prototype spacecraft once again performed a successful takeoff and subsequent reentry. As…

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Blog Post #1161, Voyager Station

Blog Post #1161, Voyager Station

                                         Author Jeff W. Horton March 24, 2021 Technical Discussion: Voyager Station Good evening friends. Some of you may know by now that I am a big science-fiction buff, and I have been for as long as I can remember; at least since I was a small boy sitting down at night having dinner in front of a really cool new program called Star Trek. That program, the…