The Next Three Quarters

Image: The planet Mars. Credit: Andrea Luck from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. SpaceX is an American aerospace, satellite, social media, and artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by Elon Musk in 2002. The company was created to colonize Mars and build the commercial space industry. In 2015, SpaceX announced its entrance into the satellite business via Starlink. Then, in 2026, SpaceX ex

Image: Photograph ISS070-E-1178, taken by an Expedition 70 crew member aboard the ISS and over the Indian Ocean in 2023. Credit: NASA/JSC. The second quarter of the 21st century is dawning. On its eve, in 2025 alone, fossil fuels were estimated to have been used more than in any year in history; all nine nuclear weapons states increased spending related to those weapons; the U.S. Department of Energy publicly announced that “AI is the new Manhattan Project;”[1] the world’s ri