[Update early afternoon]
Bob Zimmerman says that the good news is mitigated.
[Update a while later]
Elon may have to pull an all-nighter for those history reports.
[Update early afternoon]
Bob Zimmerman says that the good news is mitigated.
[Update a while later]
Elon may have to pull an all-nighter for those history reports.
A meaningless article. No one is going to pay those kinds of costs to live in space. Fortunately, they won’t have to.
…in spaaaaace. In half a decade.
I’m skeptical, but it would be great obviously if it works, and I’m glad that DIU is funding things like this.
[Update a few minutes later]
Link added now, sorry.
…don’t get to just exempt themselves from politics.
..is running out of water.
We’ve occasionally considered moving up there, but this is disquieting. The coastal commission should be abolished.
Virginia Postrel remembers the seventies.
So do I.
An interesting Twitter thread by Phil Metzger, who’s been working the issue for a while. I haven’t reviewed it in any detail.
According to the OIG, the second launch tower is a schedule/cost nightmare.
[Noon update]
Here‘s Eric Berger’s take.
[Afternoon update]
Further thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
…what would he be doing differently?
And he’s not even doing all that he wants to, thanks mostly to Manchin and Sinema.