Space colonization won’t look like Star Trek’s romantic planets or Bezos’s orbital luxury condos. It will be industrial blimps floating in Venus’s toxic skies, factories churning methane from hellish air, and humanity stubbornly clinging to survival with chemistry and logistics. Our future in the stars will be less heroic saga, more bureaucratic refinery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.