All posts by Rand Simberg
The Superbowl
As a long-suffering Lions fan, this was the first time I had a team I could cheer on in the game. Apparently a lot of other Lions fans felt the same way.
Detroit has wasted a lot of talent over the years. It was nice to see Matt Stafford finally achieve his well-deserved potential.
About That “SpaceX Rocket” That’s Going To Hit The Moon
It turns out that it’s probably Chinese.
But people wanted to believe it because SpaceX.
Forty Useful Concepts For Life
Elon’s Thursday Starship Presentation
What Eric Berger is hoping to learn.
[Thursday update]
It’s at 2100 EST, on Youtube.
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[Update a few minutes later]
Bob Zimmerman will be live streaming it as well.
[Friday-morning update]
Here is Eric Berger’s report.
What I heard last night that was new to me (maybe he’s said this before) was that it was less than a million per flight on the margin, and it could deliver 150 tons to LEO (I had thought the number was a hundred tons). That’s a fifty percent increase, and a one-third reduction in cost per pound.
[Late-afternoon update]
A report from NASA Spaceflight.
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[Saturday-morning update]
More on Musk at Politico, in which Yours Truly is quoted and cited.
Calorie Restriction
Defenders Of Free Speech
Not.
Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle
…looks worse and worse.
But he doubles down in defending it.
First Light
I’m glad that Webb is working, but I continue to believe it was a mistake.
[Update a while later]
To clarify, I think it was a mistake to do it in the way it was done, but now that it’s operational, obviously it would be a mistake to abandon it now.
What The Truckers Want
It’s not just about the vaccine mandates. They’re the new “deplorables,” and they don’t like it.