…even though much of it is wrong.
My estimation of people’s understanding of what science is (and their IQ) drops by a lot when I hear them say “I follow the science.”
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California Models
I don’t generally care what models think, but in this case I approve this message.
A Cost/Benefit Analysis
…shows that the lockdowns weren’t worth it.
Surprising me not at all.
[Update a while later]
They need it to continue their tyranny.
Thanks, Facebook!
…for helping the Taliban overrun Afghanistan. And thanks to our brilliant intelligence community that did nothing to stop it.
The IPCC’s Attribution Methodology
…is fundamentally flawed.
The Latest Salvo Against Innovation
The usual suspects want to end the learning period for commercial spaceflight.
As George points out, it is not obvious that making people wear pressure suits doesn’t add more hazards than it reduces. We don’t make everyone on an airliner wear a parachute. We minimize the possibility that they’ll need one. Just design to vehicle to have a low probability of unexpectedly depressurizing. We know how to do this much better today than we did in the sixties.
English As A Second Language
This video about the competition between SpaceX and Blue Origin is…interesting. The music is a nice touch.
Science and Math Are Racist
The latest dispatch from my alma mater.
And they wonder why I don’t donate.
Seventeen Years later
It’s interesting to read this essay that I wrote on space policy just after the first flight of SpaceShipOne and see how it’s held up. Things haven’t happened as quickly as I had hoped, and the government policy has remained awful with respect to NASA human spaceflight, but I think we’re finally on the verge of seeing things happen.
Fusion Power
Is it finally less than thirty years away? It doesn’t say what the fuel is, but I assume it’s deuterium. I wonder if the concept can be adapted for space propulsion?