A thousand-year-old redwood tree killed an SUV.

Doesn’t nature just suck?

A thousand-year-old redwood tree killed an SUV.

Doesn’t nature just suck?

A thousand-year-old redwood tree killed an SUV.

Doesn’t nature just suck?

Here‘s a possible reason why…

Looks to me like they don’t have a case.

Here‘s a possible reason why…

Looks to me like they don’t have a case.

Here‘s a possible reason why…

Looks to me like they don’t have a case.

Thomas James has an excellent summary of Elon Musk’s talk on SpaceX at the Mars Society meeting.

The plan seems to be focused on eventual ability to do private Mars exploration, which is a noble goal, but I wonder if that goal isn’t driving his current concepts to the detriment of nearer-term utility. We’ll see how well he can hit his cost-per-flight target at such a low flight rate.

What I found even more interesting, however, was the second-hand report that Blue Origin is going for a vertical-takeoff vertical-landing vehicle.

Anybody else all of a sudden seeing lots of spams for backup power supplies and generators?

I just got up to the news, and don’t have much to say about the bombing of the UN HQ in Baghdad, except I’ll bet that there were non-Iraqis involved, and that it’s time for the UN to think about its behavior and ask themselves, “Why do they hate us?”

We’re driving up the coast today, and likely won’t get in until late evening.