Are they today’s robber barons?
As Glenn notes, unlike the Carnegies, Rockefellers and J. P. Morgans, these robber barons haven’t given us much except toxic social media. The exception being, of course, Elon Musk.
Category Archives: Business
Try, Try Again
China’s first attempt to put a methane-fueled rocket into orbit has failed.
The Fifth Estate
The media continues to minimize what was happening at Twitter, and the role of the government, while demonizing Elon Musk.
Two Antithetical Billionaires
The Orbital Debris Problem
An interview with Moriba Jah.
Eugene Volokh
…refuses to be drafted into the speech police.
Medieval Feudalism
Was it the worst-run tech company of all time?
It might have stiff competition, but it could be.
The Solar Power Satellite Game
A weird and potentially wonderful new website.
[Monday-morning update]
Per a comment from Robert Smith, if you want to keep the site up, click on the choice buttons.
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My Thoughts On Artemis
They haven’t changed with the success of this mission. It would have been a shock if, after all the money they’ve spent, and schedule delays, it hadn’t been successful.
[Monday-morning update]
Here is Eric Berger’s take, FWIW.
[Update a while later]
Scanning through the (as usual, largely ridiculous) comments over there, it strikes me that the real race between SpaceX and SLS was not whether SS/SH would fly before SLS, but whether SpaceX will send people around the moon before Artemis II. I think it’s quite likely.
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[Afternoon update]
Looking for the “S” word in Artemis.