Blue Origin seems to be fulfilling the space promise Virgin Galactic has struggled to keep. Only listen if you want to get super-stoked about the human future in space.

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Blue Origin Is Highly Stoke-Worthy

How can you be stoked about space when you don't even know what it is?! Today let's delve into some of the complexities and definitions that are space.

Huge shout out to @TheKarmanLine.

Notes and references here: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s640/sh/d04e6859-03c6-402a-9494-4de6b3e86bd6/cbe7d31e5a4f8290152b5dafb7744c33

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The Karman Line, Sub-Orbital, And Other Space Definitions

"You don't choose your passions. Your passions choose you." - Jeff Bezos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO6toNtwdyQ

Music: The Stars Look Different (Ziggy Stardust Mix) by spinningmerkaba (c) 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/52765 Ft: stefsax and Dimitri Artemenko

Your Passions Choose You

We need a human future in space to ensure a human future at all. The question is what is the right next step: Mars, Moon or some combination of the two?

Notes and sources: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s640/sh/98551403-5b06-40fb-9053-c6b726b44a70/3a215fdcbd5894f763747314cdc0c4a3

Mars, Moon Or Both

Even if you could get to the moon and back, it would be illegal to sell your souvenirs. Top Quora writer, Sophia de Tricht, explains and gives insight into some of the core issues around incentivizing moon travel.

Music by Pianochocolate: "Spacetime"

The Moon And The Law

Maybe the solution to the world's problems doesn't exist ... on Earth. Maybe it's on Earth2, Earth3, Earth4, etc.

Notes and attribution: https://goo.gl/lvQtsF

EarthX

Water is the 21st century's oil. It will define our space economy and mint many billionaires and trillionaires.

Notes and sources here: https://goo.gl/AQqpwM

How To Become A Space Billionaire

The Challenger space shuttle disaster was more than a terrible human tragedy. It threatened humanity's very future in space.

Sources: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s640/sh/2d05baee-b2f4-40ec-b7c0-a1d4597a7787/034b00fc900088223365c76fcbf00b52

Fail To Succeed

The Columbia disaster highlighted the space shuttle program's many issues. How low could the US space program go?

Rock Bottom

Just 3 years into the space shuttle program, it was clear that there were big problems at NASA. Milton R. Copulos addresses them head on, and the result would create a fork in the history of US space history.

Milton R. Copulos

Sometimes progress isn't a function of success but letting failure show a better path. Our space future very much seems to fit this pattern.

Sources: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s640/sh/87160673-4634-4812-b0c0-6fd043e1eebe/ef7b34985f9cb8a0e7b62bba9a9b8e1a

Doing More With Less

Thanks to SpaceX and scientists around the world, human space colonization is about to go exponential. And I'm stoked! This is too big to hold in the excitement. 

Stoked for Space

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