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Standing next to my wife Sydjia (far left), myself (second from right), and three of his grandchildren (Adys, Aritzia, and Kleber), is my father Don Francisco. (This picture was taken in December of 2020.)

I know it’s not going to happen, but the United Nations should declare May 1st “International Victims of Communism Day”. To this end, allow me to share my colleague and friend Ilya Somin’s original May Day Proposal from 2007: see … Continue reading →

Alas, my father is in really bad shape right now, but (contra Hume) my mother and I are still holding out for a miracle. In his honor, below is the soundtrack of my father’s favorite movie, Andy Garcia’s “The Lost … Continue reading →

Here is a link to a photo of my father Don Francisco (far left) with his niece Vivian, my mother Oilda, and myself (far right).

I won’t be blogging today or tomorrow due to an illness in my family. (My father was operated on yesterday, so my mother and I will be in the hospital by his side.)

Apropos of my research on space junk, I wondered how the debris problem is solved in the fictional world of Star Trek; below are some helpful links: Fandom: “Debris” [https://archive.ph/2GcC0] Quora: “In Star Trek, why are phasers not used against … Continue reading →

Thus far this week (see here , here, and here), I have surveyed the newly-published space polices of Department of Defense and the U.S. Space Force, as well as a third report from the RAND Corporation, all of which call … Continue reading →

Previously (see here and here), I surveyed two new official public policy reports — one by the Department of Defense; the other by the Space Force — calling for U.S. military to procure some of the services and systems they … Continue reading →

According to Wikipedia (footnotes and links omitted), a low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of … Continue reading →