Author djmitzlplick
I have had the misfortune to move myself and family many times throughout my life. Sometimes across town, and sometimes across the country. Each time there was the agonizing issue of going through our STUFF and deciding what things just… Continue Reading →
As the construction of the Tiny Home Prototype neared completion, the idea struck me that I needed to make some changes to be able to live in this truly tiny space for any length of time. The fact is, that… Continue Reading →
One of the challenges of building a Biome that can be self-sustaining is handling wastes. We’re talking about food wastes, garden wastes, and human wastes of feces and urine. Any habitat off of the Earth must be able to not… Continue Reading →
Many argue that we need to colonize the Moon first and then Mars. Others offer that we should settle on Mars first. And there are yet others who think the holy grail is in Earth orbit. Then there are those… Continue Reading →
A friend turned me on to this annual event in Mesa, Az. I signed up early, thinking I would finish the tiny home well before the show. Not. Though I have made considerable progress of late. I count the exhibit… Continue Reading →
Clean, clear water. How important that is. So much so, that millions of people purchase bottled water on the premise that it is cleaner than the tap water in their own homes to drink. When we think about building a… Continue Reading →
It is December 21, 2015, and SpaceX has made history … again. WHILE delivering 11 satellites to orbit, the Falcon 9 booster, the first stage, landed at Cape Canaveral – the first EVER rocket to return to the landing pad… Continue Reading →
NASA, and our Military refer to manned trips to space as “Missions” and locations for landings as “bases”. We are beginning to see space advocates talk of those same landings as “colonies”. And more rarely, a small minority are looking… Continue Reading →
Never in the history of humanity have people been convinced to leave their homes based on logic, science, or law – it has always been a departure of desperation, and futility. Settlers are people fed up with the way things… Continue Reading →
We survive by overcoming the boundaries, by paying the price for progress with human lives. It is the way of our nature, to reach beyond our knowledge, and our experience. We are on the brink. of again entering the wilderness… Continue Reading →