Robert Alsep

Science fiction writer, spaceflight blogger and unrepentant technological optimist

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

Congratulations @blueorigin for sticking the landing! That. Was. AMAZING!

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

@Rocket_Grrrl "He's not dead, Jim!"
"Fascinating."

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

Cecil, go to your room!

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

This

[Robbie Gitten (he/they) @radishesonmars]

With a lot of the discourse(TM) going on recently I just wanted to put out where I stand. In 1000 years we’re going to be amongst the stars and no one is going to care who paid for the first ships.

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

@IamDWalt That movie's a real blast! Wakka wakka wakka!

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

@softestpunk Life hack: tape ten pens together to write words and draw lines with 10x efficiency! Scale up with more pens!

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

@softestpunk But you *are* a wizard. That's what what we call people who conjure visions using words of power. What do you do for a living again?

[Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks]

Count Dracula was 412 when he moved to England in search of new blood.

Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged The One Ring.

Cthulhu had seen galaxies flare into life and fade to darkness before he put madness in the minds of men.

It's never too late to follow your dreams!

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

Since this Guardian writer has recycled the super-uninformed claim "we ought to be spending the money on Earth instead," it is now time to recycle the informed responses. (1) Hardly *any* money is spent on space. E.g., the US spends 4X as much on tobacco as on space. 1/n

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

@Kate_Biscuit :: having cheekily poked a stick at poor exhausted and sick Doc, backs away slowly while while wishing her a speedy recovery:: 😇

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

@Kate_Biscuit Doc, you've gotta stop whining about being whiney my friend. It's just too meta for a Sunday afternoon. 🙃

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

This:

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

This is surreal. Starship SN10 being placed on Pad A. Starship SN9 on Pad B.

Views from:
Jack (@thejackbeyer)
Mary (@BocaChicaGal)

https://t.co/mdzZ5J3Jqa

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starman, last seen leaving Earth, made its first close approach with Mars today—within 0.05 astronomical units, or under 5 million miles, of the Red Planet

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

One of my favourite movies of all time.

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

This would explain a lot.

[Robert Alsep @RobertAlsep]

@elonmusk That Queen song just keeps being so damn appropriate for 2020. At least this time its in a good way. 330 bar for a rocket engine is mind blowing! But not combustion-chamber-blowing, which is the amazing bit.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

It will never stop being hilarious to me these alt-right, white supremacist "Red Pill" incels are using a metaphor created by a pair of trans sisters in an allegory for disadvantaged minority groups banding together to destroy the homogeneous system oppressing them.