SpaceX video

Yours truly has not watched this video. It is no longer possible for me to access X because I deactivated the account there.

Perhaps that was an unwise move, but it sure seemed like it is pretty limited to what you can do there unless you want to have a paid account. Since I have no intention of doing that, I chose to deactivate.

But this video was worth watching, so I'll embed it here so as to be able to watch it later at my leisure.

After watching it:

Actually about 3/4ths of it. Anyway, it is a 2025 video, so it isn't completely up to date. He spoke of heat shields, which I had a chance to hold one in my hands at Raptor Ranch. Very durable looking tile, imo. He wants to land vertical with his Starship on the Moon, to which I have severe doubts about the feasibility of this. As always, we shall see.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 11, 2026

Front row seat to history?

If Lerner is right, we may be on the cusp of some really big news.

Fascinating home-made electrochemistry

This may be feasible to do yourself, but as he says, take care if you do.

Nuclear engineer reacts to molten-salt reactor concept

The one thing I got out of this was the need for lithium enrichment. This isn't necessarily a show-stopper because there seems to be a way to do this. The engineer seems skeptical, but not dismissive.

How 19 Beavers Turned Utah’s Dying Desert River Into a Thriving Oasis

6/3/26:



Beavers and buffalo---two critters that could help transform that area into productive land. Or so I think.

Trouble is, getting them there.

Mar 23, 2026:

There are plenty of these beaver videos. A glance of the comments shows some negativity about this particular video. Nevertheless, it will be embedded here as an example of what may be possible out in West Texas. The video mentioned some studies of how to use beavers in other areas. Which opens up the question of whether or not any such study for West Texas.

There are a lot of stock tanks out there. What if a small colony were to be set up around these stock tanks? Would they survive? Would it improve the area?

Suckers born every minute

6/3/26:

It is worth noting that I terminated the account at Twitter before Elon Musk bought out Twitter and renamed it "X". I opened a new account under X. That's why this particular tweet won't show. It's no longer there.

A second comment to this is that it contains political opinion. I'm trying to avoid that on this blog and keep it on the other. Flat Earth is dumb. Go watch a Starship launch, and that should disabuse anyone of any such notion as a Flat Earth. The same goes for the notion that the Apollo landings were fake.

I will make a new category on this blog as in the main blog---call it "reaction posts".



11/28/18:

That's why AGW works politically. People can be led to believe the most absurd things.

Hundreds gather at Flat-Earth conference https://t.co/YQ3fDCArLY

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) November 28, 2018

Alpha Tech: The Real Reason Why SpaceX Starship B19 Exploded!

It didn't explode until it hit the water. Unless they are talking about the engine failures that included a small explosion in the engines?

Anastasi in Tech: The various approaches being taken to take chip manufacturing to a new level

Added a little more capability to the calendar

6/1/26:

The new upgrades and a bug correction this morning has introduced some complexity into the program. I'm thinking of creating a new video which will be a default video that will play some instructions about using the calendar. This may clear up any confusion which may result in the use of the program. That confusion may have existed all along, but a new instruction video may help with that.

5/30/26:

Prior to the upgrade, videos in previous months were available. Now all videos are available in the order in which they were placed in the calendar.

As with anything, it seems to have taken more time and effort than what I thought when I began the project. Now it's done, and I'm happy that it is done.

The Rio Grande River does go to the Gulf

Or it appears to. There were some videos that said that the Rio gets used up before reaching the Gulf. Those videos are wrong, or the water is coming from somewhere else. That's cuz there's a River there, and there's water there. It's actually quite large.

I got a video of it that I will share eventually once I get around to it. I'm at Starbase Texas for the Launch ot Test Flight 12 of the Starship.

Anyway, got things to do, and maybe places to go. So that's all for now.

Here's a video I made