Voyager 1 is not one light year away from Earth.
The NASA program has always been focused on human space travel. It is still the only space program capable of human space travel outside the biosphere of Earth. The ideology that lead to the coveting of the moon for mineral rights is completely wrong headed. I have said it over and over, the moon is Earth's satellite and has profound effect on Earth's gravity and oceans. Leave the moon to Earth and stop seeking profiteering with it. It is a disaster in the making. There are already moon quakes and that is a warning sign, not simply a fact of life.
Earth is experiencing abrupt climate change with temperatures soaring. The tropospheric gases are way out of balance. The idea one can tinker with the moon while Earth is suffering to maintain it's balance and benevolent environment is outrageous. There is no way this is a viable solution for Wall Street. Tinkering with the moon is not reasonable.
Nature is resilient. It has handed the USA back it's beauty and benevolence many times over. There is Yellowstone and the return of the wolf, there is Oklahoma and the return of the bison. In both instances Earth has regenerated the lost balance. The idea the warming of Earth is only one way without a method to return viability of humans is out of the question. We completely know different.
The long term view for NASA is not profiteering. It never has been. NASA holds superior capacity when it comes to space exploration's future. NASA is also cutting edge for the USA national defense with sophisticated jets that protect American lives. This is not ideology, it is fact. There is no other country capable of what the USA's NASA program is capable of and it needs to be protected with authority returned to the Space Administration.
We have witnessed the political corruption of Elon Musk in being trusted with space travel. He promises the moon when all he wants is power. The issue now with Nvidia is a wake up call. The idea Artificial Intelligence is protected from exploitation is nonsense. There is no company engaged in AI that can say they are completely safe from invasion of other countries that are enemies of the USA. If anything, AI exposes the underbelly of the Tech Sector more than ever.
The communists aren't going to leave Wall Street alone. They see it as an opportunity to not only gain enormous treasuries as North Korea did, but, to find an advantage over the USA national security. Both attack potential has to be contained and I am sorry to rub salt into MAGA wounds, but, the former Republican Party was the ones that turned the Tech Sector loose without any oversight or regulations even in reporting their research projects. It should have all been top secret proceedings with security for each company involved in the science of computers.
The origins of computers do not belong to Wall Street.
In 1939, (click here) Bell Telephone Laboratories completes this calculator, designed by scientist George Stibitz. In 1940, Stibitz demonstrated the CNC at an American Mathematical Society conference held at Dartmouth College. Stibitz stunned the group by performing calculations remotely on the CNC (located in New York City) using a Teletype terminal connected to New York over special telephone lines. This is likely the first example of remote access computing.
The internet originally belonged to the American people. As is true with most advances in the sciences, it started with the USA military and USA universities.
The First Connections: 1970 (click here)
Computers cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1960s. What's more, they took up a lot of space. That meant there weren't many powerful computers to go around for the military personnel and scientists who needed them.
To solve the problem, the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) decided to try to connect a handful of large computers so they could share software, research information, or even storage space across whole states.
Spreading the powerful computers out like this was also a form of protection -- geographically removed computers meant it would be much harder for an enemy to take out the military's computer information in one blow.
They established a system called ARPAnet, which had four main hubs: the Universities of California in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, the University of Utah, and SRI International. Once connected, a researcher could sit down at a computer at one hub and pull anything off a computer at another hub...
The point is there are many reasons to end the corruption of our country's finest universities and scientists no matter the specialty and return to basics.
NASA contributes regularly to the American society in ways that are novel and exceptionally helpful. Wall Street picks up those opportunities and invests. All that is normal, what is not normal is harnessing the science and the scientists for nebulous ideologies of profit. Those profiteers do not see the entire picture they only see the reason for profit. The science and scientists must be left to the guardianship of the USA government when that government is not run by corruption and crime.
The American people have a right to be proud of themselves in this election. They have recaptured their Constitution and the sanity that brings to the people. Now, the return to a government that actually functions without waste while delivering on the future is where vigilance lies. We are a country of diversity. That means there will be many faces of different ethnic backgrounds and genetics. That is a good thing. Going forward, it is time to review where the importance lies with our democracy and where national security it best served without compromise.
November 10, 2026
By Margherita Bassi
In 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 (click here) launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the aim of studying planets in the outer solar system. Almost half a century later, the twin spacecraft have long since achieved their original mission yet are still hurtling into the unknown. In fact, Voyager 1’s status as the farthest human-made object ever will soon be exemplified by an exceptional milestone: the probe is about to reach one light-day from Earth....