The Infinite World

 SpaceX continues to lead the world in space launches, 165 Falcon 9 launches! This record would likely be broken in 2026 and hopefully SpaceX Starship can achieve a satellite launch as well in 2026!

It’s time to start a space recycle station, to pick up the used satellites, expanded rockets or any metal pieces that can be found floating around Earth. With the launch of satellites constellation such as Starlink, it would be great to recycle such metal objects rather than let it burn up on reentry into Earth atmosphere.  Along it can be a factory to build new satellite or spacecraft in orbit. It’s time to really reuse such materials in space rather then the current practice of launching new spacecraft from earth and let the old machines to burn up on reentry. Of course, there are logistical task to complete before the recycling can start to take place. To begin with a sizeable spacecraft would be needed to perform such a task and a permanent crew would be needed.

At 3.42am, 7 Dec 2025 Sunday, I took a grab ride to Suntec city to join the SCSM 2025 marathon. I arrived just in time to deposit my bag at the F1 pit, entered my start pen E at 4.31am. As usual, the elite runners started at the front at 4.20am. It looks to me like a huge crowd and spirit was high and weather was good, cooling in the early morning. Pen E managed to start the race at 4.50am.  The start was the usual route towards the beach road golden mile area then towards the merdeka bridge towards national stadium. I just run along my usual slow run with the pack, tried my best to snaked my way when those in front are really slow. It got to a point where I was trying to run faster and faster when the body feels good. But, I always tell myself that it’s going to be a long way and never allowed myself to go below 6.30 pace. I reached the 10 km mark around the OUE Bayfront, it was around 1hour 5 min plus. It was not too bad as I was struggling to hit such time during my training run...

SpaceX has successfully launched 130 times up to 16 Oct 2025, excluding Starship test flights. It looks like another record breaking year for SpaceX, they are leading the world by a huge margin. 

Tactical race proved to be a killer for the world top long distance runners, as in the men’s 10000m race. The Kenyan and Ethiopian did not win medals, they ran too conservatively and did not have enough speed at the deciding last bit of the race. They need to stretch the not so fast athletes earlier, maybe with 2 laps to go, to make them tired out earlier, so that they are not in the right shape to sprint the last 100metres. A lesson for the runners from the 2 distance running powerhouse, try not to compete with speed at the end, run faster on average in the earlier part to tired out the not so elite runners. I believed the same apply for the 3000m steeplechase race, but it’s a much shorter race, so need to fine tune their strategies.

One day living homo sapien suddenly realised that whatever that is outside Earth are all fake!  Somebody just painted the universe on a piece of paper, maybe it’s real to the end of plato only!  There are tonnes of material written about distant worlds, but ironically human has never even explored anywhere else except the moon. How human convinced themselves what the other said is real is puzzling at most. A lot of unknown facts but they are winning prizes!