Sarah Hoyt explains what motivates the Left, and how to defeat them.
[Update a few minutes later]
What to learn from the SJW who was eaten by his own mob.
[Via Stephen Green, who also has an apt quote from Atlas Shrugged]
All posts by Rand Simberg
Blue Origin
They performed a high-altitude escape test today, apparently successfully, and it carried a lot of experiments. I hope this is their last milestone before flying test passengers.
Web Sites
…without web servers. I wonder about the data security of being so deeply embedded in the cloud.
Trump’s Press Conference
Both Spengler and Roger Simon think he got it right with Putin.
[Wednesday afternoon update]
More thoughts from Roger Kimball.
[Bumped]
I’ll Have a Bloody Tongue
I scored a ticket to the VIP gala at KSC Saturday night, to celebrate the 49th anniversary of the first moon landing. I just found out I’ll be seated at a front table with commercial-spaceflight basher Walt Cunningham.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
She’s the best thing to happen to Republicans all year.
She really isn’t very bright.
[Late-afternoon update]
She calls for the occupation of airports.
Yes, please.
The Need To Settle Mars
A long essay, from James Poulos. I assume that this will be in the same issue mine and Zubrin’s will be.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Scratch that last. This was apparently in the Spring edition. Ours will be in the Summer edition.
Space Is Not A Global Commons
A Twitter thread from the U.S. representative to COPUOS.
A thread on why outer space is not a global commons! #spacelaw #globalcommons #spacepolicy
1) "Global commons" is an ill-defined term. Different people mean different things: some mean "area beyond territorial jurisdiction", others something political, regarding rights.
— Gabriel Swiney (@Monkeybane_DC) July 16, 2018
Jupiter
Has ten more moons, for a new total of seventy nine. I’m old enough to remember when there were only four.
Photocatalysis
…in weightlessness. I think the solution to all of these sorts of problems is to build large spinning spacecraft. We haven’t been doing it only because space access has been too expensive.