Category Archives: Business
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.
What The Truckers Want
It’s not just about the vaccine mandates. They’re the new “deplorables,” and they don’t like it.
The Revolution Isn’t Over
A long and depressing compendium of the forces that continue to be arrayed against liberty.
The Trucker Rebellion
Ezra Levant thinks he knows how it’s going to end.
Spoiler alert: It will end well.
Elon
…seems to be taking the loss well.
The Fragility Of Complex Technology
This is amazing.
[Update a while later]
Note that this seemed to be an accident of inadvertent file naming, but FM subcarriers carry all sorts of info (like real-time traffic, weather, or alerts). Imagine the kinds of malicious things one could do with this, because the automakers haven’t bullet proofed their code. Particularly with self-driving cars and kill switches. There should be a firewall between a car’s radio and the rest of the avionics (as I think they do for aircraft entertainment systems).
This Is CNN
A bunch of pathetic neurotic lefty nutjobs.