Multipurpose Surveillance Contractors ... OF THE GODS???

Approximately 0545 PST to the East: A great burning wheel in the sky, as written of in Ezekiel... Or some paranoid anti-government screed.

Later, it's barely visible, but there... KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES! THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE! I WANT TO BELIEVE!

"I would be, like, you know, if like, Erich von Däniken and Thor Heyerdahl had, so, um, like, bareback butt babies that lived -- nigga wha? Dang, I don't know who's the top and who's the bottom, so get off me! Callate!" Ancient Astronauts Expert Ariana Grande (hella outta shit)

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Begging for assistance with housing... Especially because we're over the County line -- a trip with the Glenn programs that offer assistance; also, much of the ask going to demolition and removal costs...

BREAKING: NASA Feeling Pressure for Rapid-Return Mars Regolith Sample Mission

I've recently touched on the whole Mars thing, as I've always been an advocate for colonization, and it has been brought up by the likes of Elon Musk (SpaceX and Dragon... And of HyperLoop fame.)

Currently, NASA is considering rapid-return sample retrieval missions to Mars (most recent in my twitter profile, after the pinned post)... Keep up the good work, planet Earth!

(I personally recommend a mission architecture that includes the International Space Station as the final destination of any returning regolith samples...)

...APROPOS OF WHICH [UPDATE 1442 PST): My twitter activity is always something to behold, considering I have 1100 followers...

[UPDATE II 0214 30-08-2017]: Okay, word from the horse's mouth is, NASA's druthers are that its next Mars mission will be about the planet's interior... What can Mars enthusiasts kickstart, or pressure the likes of Elon Musk, when it comes to getting quick regolith samples returned for analysis at the ISS or on Earth? (And what is Zuckerberg's deal IN RE private space exploration, tangentially? Is it like the thing with him and philanthropy/charitable giving... Too rich too soon, with the added hurdle of being among other things somewhere on the Asperger's spectrum, and so it's like pulling teeth to get him to get along with the rest of us now...?)

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Still asking for any donations at all... Any bit helps...

Dr. Spaceman! DR. SPAAAAACEMAAAAAAAN!!!

I know these things seem routine, but they are not. Today is a great day during which inshallah three souls (who - yes! - are old hands at this kind of mission) will approach the International Space Station in a Soyuz capsule around 1500 [ed. corrected from "1600," brain fart] Beale/Vandenberg. Pray to your god(s) to hold them safe, keep your fingers crossed, whatever. The future of the species is intimately tied to what the men and women of NASA and the space program are doing...

I'm very into various space programs and corporations, and have devoted virtually all of my twitter feed to it: twitter.com/williamrway - be sure to check me out!

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So my thoughts on colonizing Mars: really, using Phobos and Deimos as raw materials for orbiting habitats (in situ resource usage/utilization; @ Planetary Resources) makes much more sense, and that's where the greatest population of people would be... Sure enough, the Mars regolith is far too toxic to use as a growth medium or to sustain life -- terraforming with carefully aimed fragments Kuiper Belt objects or icy asteroid belt bodies is an idea, but really... Still, the heavy metals in the regolith are still useful, and people will need to be on the surface to extract and refine them, and to use them for sciency, interstellary stuff....

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