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Notes · August 17, 2026
Notes for August 17, 2026
The Next Moon Race Is About Infrastructure, Not Flags
China and the United States are racing toward crewed south-pole landings and lunar bases. The finish line is infrastructure—power, water, comms, transport—not a flag, and not legal ownership of the Moon.
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Reticulum Treats the Network Underneath It as Replaceable
Reticulum is a transport-agnostic networking stack for communications that should keep working when the Internet does not—compelling because the transport is replaceable, while metadata, radio physics, and a missing independent spec still matter.
Inspired by reticulum.network