Marcus Stone

Marcus Stone

Inventing Methane

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Voltaire said if God didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him. The same goes for methane in spaceflight. Kerosene clogs, hydrogen cracks, and methane just works. It burns clean, stores easy, and lets rockets return like airplanes. If space is the next frontier, then LNG is the quiet workhorse that’ll get us there—on repeat.

Cathedrals of Fire

A rocket launch captured at night, leaving a bright curved trail of light across a star-filled sky.

Radical greens whisper that Earth would heal if humanity simply vanished. But nature has never been a gentle mother—it’s a lunatic pyromaniac smashing species off the stage. Our only answer isn’t retreat but escape: rockets black with soot, engines shrieking, and the eternal gamble of hurling ourselves beyond the planet that never loved us.

The Glacier Remembers

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In Norway’s highlands, ancient mountain paths re-emerge from retreating ice—evidence of natural warm periods long before factories or fossil fuels. From Viking artifacts to Greenland’s lost forests, the past whispers inconvenient truths. Climate was never static, and warmth is no modern anomaly. This is not denial. This is memory, thawing slowly into the light.

Affirmative Extraction and the Compliance Dragon

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Behind every failed project lies a horde of consultants, regulators, and professional victims, fattening themselves on paperwork and moral grandstanding. From South African LNG to Western ESG madness, the Compliance Industrial Complex is a global beast. It doesn’t solve problems—it feeds on them. And the bill? It lands on your desk, every single time.

The Price of Decency

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Free trade, as practiced, rewards the dirtiest hands and punishes the cleanest. A Border Adjustment Tax flips that script—charging nations for the damage they export along with their goods. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start: a market where the cheapest product finally pays the real price of its making.

The Velvet Handshake and the Iron Hook

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Free trade, we’re told, is the gentle glue holding civilization together. In practice, it’s a velvet handshake masking an iron hook. One side externalizes misery; the other externalizes guilt. COVID didn’t break the arrangement — it merely tore off the decorative ribbon and showed the machinery of parasitism humming underneath.