Category Archives: Business
California Versus Porsche
The state has killed its new six-speed manual, because it’s “too loud.”
CRT
…can KMA.
Tell them what you really think, Kurt.
[Update a few minutes later]
Parents are seeing through the educrats’ lies.
[Update a while later]
You are not a racist to criticize Critical Race Theory.
An ELEO Thought Experiment
Imagine that you could have 150,000 tons of cargo (or people) delivered to equatorial LEO annually, at $60/lbm. What would you do with it? What are the markets? We’re talking on the order of $5B/year.
[Update late afternoon]
Note that that’s less than a quarter of the NASA budget…
For that money, we could have 150,000 tons of material/people in orbit, or pay for another year of SLS/Orion.
[Friday-morning update]
Thanks to a comment, I went and rechecked, and found an error in the spreadsheet. The cost is more like $20/lbm.
The Killing Of Kern County
The economic lunacy and destruction by California’s Democrats continues apace.
Red Tape
The orbital Starship attempt probably won’t happen in July.
Net Zero
The West’s suicide note.
Germany
…is a bad ally. Which is why Biden and Blinken (why do I want to add “and Nod” to the end of that?) want to make nice with a former East German chancellor.
Asteroids
Martin Elvis has what looks to be an interesting new book out.