Is there any option to catch a ride and simply camp out somewhere? Or you have to buy a camp/park pass and drive in?
The only info I found on the website is about camping and parking passes. Fine by me driving in but frankly kinda defeats the purpose of carpooling/limiting car use if you force those who come solo to get a whole 20 X 20 section to camp in.
Looking at the Lunar LEM... I simply wonder why we need a boondoggle like the vertically challenged SpaceX lander or the equally massive Blue Origin one.
Now that Artemis II has shown the competency and ability of good old methods to deliver I wonder if NASA could also focus on a plan B in case the hyper ambitious vaporware peddled by the 2 private firms doesn't materialize.
2 SLS launches could each send Orion and the Lander into translunar injection and do the trick.
Easier than 20+ refueling launches for SpaceX or something not even started to be build by BO.
SpaceX also just had a deadly workplace accident LAST FRIDAY and no one there talks about it because it's an opaque private firm that will fire anyone who doesn't respect the NDA and is constrained by brutal arbitration clause.
We might expect the same lack of transparency when people die on the Moon and simply are forgotten/disappear?
Thursday. Out of the blue. Random exit from the freeway and talked to some people at a starbucks and on my way between Florida and Colorado.
They got me interested and I brought a GA+ ticket. Went that Thursday and met someone who gave me a Stitch statuette after I told her my story and had a blast. If you are reading this you're awesome! I still have it.
Then left Friday morning... and the rest is history. I was apparently the one dude who got to enjoy the best of the festival as the rest was cancelled due to the rains.
I want to go back again... just for Thursday. Or should I do the 4 days? Maybe I carry with me the fate of the festival? LOL
I went to Java then Scala... then realized my code's performance sucked and C++ 17 was awesome and the portability issue is now moot.
Plus NASA's guidelines for coding where you allocate all you need upfront and never again suits me fine to not need that time consuming performance killing garbage collector.
Just to say glad to be back!
Frankly sick and tired of the Oligarchs and their lobbies, and the fact the average person from the street has 0 chances of making it to a position of power.
There is no "career" to be made as a "politician".
All we see are lobbies, special interest and a system corrupt to the core. So corrupt the corrupt part itself is now putrefying.
And a Split "make you believe there is competition" one "Reichpartei" i.e Democrats and Republicans and no other voice.
Like in all rotten systems the core is now... well... rotten.
The Oligarchs don't hide anymore their disdain of the commoners.
In France in 1789 they replaced the corrupt inept rotten to the core Aristocracy with a Parliamentary system favoring the Bourgeoisie.
The next Revolution can and shall implement Athenian style rule by lot, Sortition.
Just change Jury duty rule and expand it to select a parliament and leaders at random.
It may not be the perfect system but way better than the crap we have now, itself way better than the dictatoships we see around the planet.
If we want to avert chaos and a Revolution, maybe some current crop of politicians would listen and relinquish power to the people.
Like Town Hall meetings BUT to make decisions and let the people decide. And let whoever is in charge be the mere vector of People's will.
Basically whoever believes in Sortition shall run for office advertising it and the steps they will carry to create their own people's assembly that will decide as they are a simple messenger of it.
Might not work with sociopaths and those who generally seek power though but a stop gap measure to evolve into that system.