The Infinite World

SpaceX prototype SN9 is taking its first flight very soon, probably to 10-12km height. It’s a question of control over the booster, they need to really fine tune the control of the descent speed to avoid crashing to the ground. 

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. 

  200m 28.3 sec 1985 These are my all my life time best timing. Hopefully I can still get a chance to better some of these soon!  400m 65.9 sec 1990 800m 2min41sec 199? 2.4km 9min31sec 1991 3km 13min01sec 199? 5km 23min15sec 199? 10km 50min21sec 2014 21.1km 1hr57min27sec 2012 42.195km 4hr4min26sec 2014

 The world can be a better place if world leaders were to wake up their selfish self! The Leaders themselves have too many own agendas, which are unrelated to building a better society. It’s a unspoken truth that the majority cannot come to term with, everyone to themselves. One more thing, the greed for power in human self will see the world locked in a perpetual cycle of fighting war, hatred, poverty, all because of the evil side of human nature!

 Started the run this morning at 7.16am, ran along Yio Chu Kang road towards buangkok direction and then turned left onto lentor Avenue. My intention was to check our skeletal northlink via yishun Avenue 1. It was a slow run, my pace never went faster than 6.30 per km. Not good, the road there are getting crowded with cars and trucks by 7 plus am. There are loads of cyclists as well, I think they are in dangerous situation with all the heavy dump trucks around. The roads side are all works going on, especially on the right side if you are going towards punggol marina. Messy everywhere, not good for running and walking. Hot as well after 7.30 am, be prepared if anyone is going!

Human beings need to have a thirst for the unknown, which will ultimately lead to the progress of their being a living civilisation. It is quite meaningless, if human intend to just deplete the planet’s resources over time.  What is limiting human beings, to relate to their greater surroundings, is their current technology level and thinking. They will ultimately make progress by just working on their technology constantly.  They will need to be less selfish and less power hunger to survive and to avoid destroying their own race. Power can never be trusted onto a few good individuals, who will ultimately go astray over time. Human feelings and thinking can change for no reasons, due to their weak mind. Human leaders are too dominating and have too many personal agenda, they tend to neglect the general population no matter how hard they think they are trying. The human mind is fickle and easily influenced by the selfish mind. 

 A learning culture can help many countries still trapped by their past or a bad government. Learning new things, new skills can get them out of their situation.  There are definitely people in these countries who are trying hard to improve their situation. Perhaps they just need some help to get the push on education that is needed. If the people at the top are not motivated by greed and power, the lower rank of society will be better off.

I got enlisted into the army, no choice compulsory conscription. Basic military training, it teaches you how to listen to order and obey order regardless if it’s right or wrong. They teach you how to fire a bullet from a rifle and how to fight with a bayonet on a rifle. 3 months of basic training, then they sent you to different unit. I was sent to the communication or signal unit. It takes away part of one’s life, to fight a imminent war that the human leader foresee.

New generation aircraft carrier need to be fast and well defended. As vertical takeoff becomes more reliable in the near future, the carrier act like a mothership to refuel and rearmed, rather than a runway. The flat deck becomes less of a focal point, the carrier can be less than 300m long but still carries about 100 combat aircraft. The ship need to be better defended with more close range rapid fire gun or cannon, plus more missiles for all purpose. The carrier would definitely carry fewer crew and more automated with less space for accommodation.  The current design of large carrier tend to focus on the runway, making it odd looking and not aerodynamic which slow down the top speed.

SpaceX Starship prototype SN5 made a successful first hop on the 4 Aug 2020 into the sky above the Boca Chica site. It fired up its single Raptor engine and flew to a high of about 150 metres and landed some distance from the test stand.

SpaceX successfully completed its 12th launch of 2020 launching a military satellite for the Korea Government. It also landed the first stage for the 57th time and recovered both fairings at the same time. Another notable achievement is the shortest interval between launch of the same first stage, 51 days.

Singapore Singapore opposition party , Worker’s Party won 10 of 93 seats in the Singapore election. A super majority is never a good thing! In the next election, the opposition should strive to win a quarter of the parliamentary seats.