The Infinite World

The way forward for the human race is to stop fighting each other. Save the money to help the less well off, by giving them the much needed education.  Saying is so easy, but the selfish human will not listen. 

 A new year has begun, year 2021.  Human is still going nowhere, their selfishness made them fight again each other, do things that harm each other, harm their environment.  They are always caught up in their fights, never realised that they are actually fighting their evil half every single day.  They have been at each other’s throats for thousands of years and will continued to do so for who knows how long more, till the day they wake up from their long slumber.  Human always dwell in their emotions, which always end up wasting their time. It will take a great deal of effort to wake them up, as their evil self always stand ready to defeat them.  It’s a vicious cycle.....

Yuki Kawauchi achieved his 100th career sub 2:20 marathon at the 51st Hofu Yomiuri marathon on 20 Dec 2020, Sunday. He finished 2nd position with a time of 2:10:26. Congratulations to Yuki...!!!

SpaceX which already surpasses its previous best of 21 launches in a year in 2018, completed its 25th launch of 2020 on 11 Dec. The SXM7 mission launch a 7 ton broadcasting satellite for SiriusXM, from Florida. Another launch is scheduled for 17 Dec 2020, a NROL launch.

There is no doubt that SpaceX Starship will go from 12.5 km test flight to a 100km or more by the end of 2021. In the mean time, why not build a improved Dragon spacecraft to test out all the technology needed for a prolonged space flight?  The trip to the moon may only take a week or two only, but a Mars trip will take at least 6 months or more. Build a spacecraft to test out all the life support systems will speed up the actual Human capable Starship.  The test spacecraft can take a trip to nowhere, but maybe up to a million km away from earth. Human need to build up the knowledge in space travel, rather than jumping into something big and not tested. At the same time, meet up with new problem that will definitely surface on a long trip. A engine that need repair, a collapsed computer on board, how to treat a sick astronaut when you are 2.8million km away from the hospital? Yes, human need to accumulate the knowledge for long distance space travel. 

SpaceX starship prototype SN8 successfully launched on 9 Dec 2020 about 5 am Singapore time. The 3 Raptor’s engine ignited and lifted off from the ground and went up all the way until about 4 min plus of the flight and shut the engines and tipped over using small thruster along the middle of its belly, till horizontal and glided beautifully down to the surface again. Just before reaching the ground, the engines reignited again and flipped back up to vertical position for the landing. It did land but could not control the landing and sort of exploded, it did not explode and burn for a long time, as the smoke screen cleared only after about 45 seconds. It was a beautiful flight and is considered a successful flight of 6min42 sec. Congratulations to SpaceX...!!!! Way to go. Looking forward to the next test SN9!

SpaceX has completed 24 launches in 2020 up to 6 Dec 2020. 23 regular launches and 1 abort test for the crew mission certification. For a company, it has done so much more even compared to most space agencies! In fact, it has done a excellent job, who else can bring back a booster rocket from 70km up and reused it 7th times!

SpaceX Starship SN8 first high attitude test flight to 15km could happen any time from 4 Dec to 6 Dec 2020 from its Boca Chica site in Texas. This is the upper stage of the whole package, which also include the lower stage first stage called the Super Heavy. 

 Started my run quite late, about 7.20 pm. I started the run quite briskly, not my usual slow start. The route was from yck road to bishan park, I had to cross like 4 traffic lights, which slow down my pace. I reached the park in 16 min 1 sec, my pb for this stretch of 2.65 km is 14min40sec. Still feeling good, I continued with 1 lap around the park, was quite winded by the time I exit the park again. I still needed to complete the same stretch I took to the park. I started to reduce my pace, but I tried to just run at a reasonable pace till I reached yck road again. I eventually completed 9.05km in 55min42.6sec. If there is no need to tackle all the traffic crossing, I believed I can reduce the time taken by about 1.5 minutes.