Reading or watching/listening to someone/something creative often inspires me. A smaller subset actually gets me off my ass to get to a notebook- I make this...| Angadh Nanjangud
Thinking about the frontier is a lonesome thing. Perhaps it should be so one can have fresh takes. But this can be quite psychologically and emotionally taxing so it is useful to remind oneself that this aspect is not to be unexpected. Lonesomeness is a feature, not a bug. Working...| Angadh Nanjangud
An earlier post in my teaching resources for a final year undergraduate project had a pretty helpful AI-generatedThanks to Claude. table. This is a quick post about Wernher von Braun’s 1950’s conceptual rotating wheel station with some basic comparisons to the ISS (1998-present) and 1968’s Space Station V from 2001:...| Angadh Nanjangud
Background Kepler’s SomniumAt the time of my writing this post, his sci-fi story was archived here. in 1608 and Edward Everett Hale’s Brick Moon 1 from 1865 are early fantasy science-fiction of space-faring humans. Kepler faced more flak than fanfare for his work2 but I was especially surprised to learn...| Angadh Nanjangud
These were some quick thoughts I shared with a friend after reading Varoufakis’ recent article on a Star Trek-inspired Utopia. This loosely links to my earlier post on “ Graeber and Thiel”. Yanis’ utopian view is one I agree with that we should aim to live in a future where...| Angadh Nanjangud
When I meet a government which says to me, “Your money or your life,” why should I be in haste to give it my money? It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that. It must help itself; do as I do....| Angadh Nanjangud
⊕Logo for SpaceHQ. We like to think of ourselves as a ragtag group of outliers trying to figure out how we can build larger structures in space. An example challenge is how we can go from modular stations such as ISS, as seen on the left of our logo, to...| Angadh Nanjangud
Over lunch, I watched Chelsea Finn discuss Moravec’s Paradox with people across age and skills groups from kids to expert researchers. It is the idea that hu...| Angadh Nanjangud
Dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. Larry Niven Asteroid 2024 YR4, with its February 2025 estimate of having ~3% chance of striking Earth, was a sharp reminder to heed Stephen Hawking’s warning: that we must become a spacefaring species to survive extinction-level events. He believed we...| Angadh Nanjangud
I am a big-time and longtime fan of Obsidian- it is my note-taking tool of choice both for its usability and, just as importantly, its ethos of avoiding the travails of lock-in. However, my use of it recently plateaued — nay, it dropped off a cliff — when I started...| Angadh Nanjangud
In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away.| Angadh Nanjangud