About this project
I'm Joshua — an engineer and program manager in the energy sector with experience building complex operational systems, managing vendor ecosystems, and thinking about how infrastructure actually works when it has to work every day without fail.
My job has given me a first-hand perspective to the realities of running critical infrastructure: load balancing, redundancy planning, demand forecasting, vendor coordination, and myriad other operational details that keep the lights on. These are the same categories of problems that lunar settlement will face — just with higher stakes and no fallback.
But I believe the next chapter of human settlement will be shaped as much by operators, civic designers, and people who care about meaning as by the engineers who get us there. The aerospace engineering is being solved. What's missing is the other half: governance, resource operations, AI systems, spiritual life, economic design — the civic layer that turns a base into a place people actually live.
This site is my contribution to that conversation. It draws from utility operations, AI systems design, frontier history, theology, philosophy, and the practical realities of keeping people alive and purposeful in hostile environments.
Tranquility references Mare Tranquillitatis — the Sea of Tranquility, where Apollo 11 landed on July 20, 1969 (0.67°N, 23.47°E). The south pole (Shackleton Crater) is the likelier site for first settlement due to its resource advantages. But Tranquility carries cultural and historical weight that makes it a compelling candidate for second-wave settlement — and a name worth building around.
This isn't a space fan site. It's meant to be a working document — a one-person think tank exploring the problems that aerospace engineering alone won't solve. I've tried to be analytical, honest, and grounded in operational experience. Enthusiasm comes through in depth of engagement. And fine, it's also because I'm a fan of Heinlein's writing and I can't wait until we have settlements on the Moon.
Thinking & writing about space, AI, technology, philosophy, and the human experience.