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The FluxBB system has continued operation without problems.

The weekly Google Meeting was productive.

The upcoming Google Meeting will likely include review of work by GW Johnson, exploring the interesting idea of PhotonBytes to consider a flight to Mars that would take 15 days. While he technology needed does not exist today, in 100 years it should be available.

At the time the Wright Brothers achieved human powered flight, the fastest travel opportunity on Earth was provided by the steam locomotive.

The Wright Brothers routinely used steam locomotive powered trains to travel between Ohio and North Carolina.

In 1903, per Google, the fastest train on Earth was a German Electric train that ran 130 mph (210 km/h).

In 2003, humans had traveled to the Moon and returned with a velocity of 39,897 km/h (Apollo 10 per Google).

Per calculator, the ratio between 39897 and 210 is 189.9857.

Rounding to 190, the corresponding ratio for velocity in 2103 would be: 7,580,430 km/h, or: 2105.675 km/s

The velocity estimated for the 15 day flight to Mars (as computed by GW Johnson) is 60 km/s.

It appears that if the trend is correct, humans will have the ability to travel at 60 km/s well before 2103.

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The FluxBB software continues steady.

The weekly Google meeting was productive.

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The FluxBB software continues steady.

The weekly Google meeting was productive.

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The forum software is holding steady.

The weekly Google Meeting was interesting and productive.

Active initiatives include several by GW Johnson and kbd512.

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The forum software remains stable.

The weekly Google meeting on January 19th was interesting and productive.

kbd512 and GW Johnson were once again in attendance.

Topics ranged widely as usual.

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The FluxBB conversion continues stable.

The weekly Google Meeting on January 12th included discussion of GW Johnson's work on a paper about planning a campaign to settle Mars.

We also considered the challenges of designing equipment to operate on Venus. It appears there are a number of materials that are reliable at the 500 (or so) Celsius temperatures and 92 bar pressures. Since the entire atmosphere at the surface is CO2 in it's supercritical (fluid) state, this material appears to be well positioned for use in machinery designed for the environment.

A recent addition to the vision of how to operate on Venus is the proposal to capture updrafts that must exist on the Venus surface.

Because the atmosphere is hotter at the surface than it is higher up, the less dense atmosphere must rise, just as is true on Earth when the Sun heats a section of desert sand. On Earth, experiments have been performed to see if rising air can be harnessed to generate power. That principle might work on Venus, but details of where such in installation might be placed, and how it would work remain to be determined.

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The weekly Google Meeting took place on schedule yesterday.

Topics discussed included:

Space Tugs and book prospects
Venus probe designed to operate in the 500 Celsius environment
Optical Plane concept (research required)
Kinetic weaponry (ancient technology brought forward)

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The new version of FluxBB is continuing to hold steady.

The forum saw return of one of the founding Administrators yesterday.

Josh Cryer has a registration date in 2001, and served until 2018 when he took retirement.

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We have completed another week without incident.

We are starting to think about long deferred improvements.

The first item had been the "like" feature, but now a file hosting capability is on the agenda.

Currently we use Dropbox and Imgur to hold text files and images.

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The new software completed another day without incident.

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