A presentation by Judith Curry.
Category Archives: Business
Activist Academia
How it destroyed scholarly peer review.
Peer review is highly overrated.
“Science Deniers”
How not to talk to them.
Virgin Galactic
…is grounded. I wonder if they’ll take away their allowance, too?
Honestly, this seems kind of dumb. A SpaceShipTwo that is out of fuel is no more of a risk to public safety than a business jet. In fact, it’s less, if the jet goes down full of fuel.
[Late-evening update]
My assumption when I wrote the original post was that the concern was uninvolved public on the ground. It didn’t occur to me that it could be incurring on other airspace that might be unaware of it, and into which it was not supposed to go. My bad.
The Real Jim Crow 2.0
…is in California.
SLS
I’m sure that you’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that the first flight will be delayed again.
Hey, Biden Voters?
Automakers
…are overstepping their boundaries.
“The entire pandemic has felt like an exercise in seeing just how much authority governments and corporations could gradually exert over everyone else.”
Indeed.
Why We Need Fusion
Thoughts from Bob Zubrin.
“We are not threatened by there being too many people. We are threatened by people who think there are too many people.”
Yes.
Environmental Red Tape
Keep it out of outer space.