How do we reopen it?
And yes, this looks like a good book.
Category Archives: Business
What’s “Normal” In America?
Thoughts on the fascists who call themselves “anti-fascists.”
American Universities
…have lost their prestige.
You don’t say.
Gwynne Shotwell
[Update a few minutes later]
Elon shows the way: ” The promotional video, captured and shared on the Chinese social network Weibo, shows two different concepts for achieving suborbital passenger flights about two decades from now. What is interesting about the video (which I’ve mirrored on YouTube) is that the first concept looks strikingly like SpaceX’s Starship vehicle. It shows a large vehicle capable of vertical takeoff and vertical landing. “
You don’t say.
You Don’t Say
Elon says that a bunch of people will die going to Mars.
I don’t know if he’s read it, but I gave him a copy of the book (via Gwynne) when it came out.
A Multi-Cultural Approach To Space
This op-ed seems a little aerie faerie to me, and I’m not sure what exactly he’s proposing, but someone should tell him that space is not the common heritage of mankind.
The “Green New Deal”
…will impoverish America.
Why yes, yes it would.
NASA’s Starship Award
Five reasons it’s a watershed moment in human spaceflight.
It’s the biggest departure from the ancient Apollo mentality that the agency has ever made.
[Sunday-morning update]
Casey Handmer does a thorough analysis of just how revolutionary this capability is. We will get not only cheap lunar (and other space) transportation, but cheap lunar bases based on one-way trips of Starships. It also probably means that, for a long time, lunar ISRU for propellant will make no economic sense.
[Bumped]
Social Distancing
It’s just more junk science, that has wrecked state and local economies.
New VB Problem
So, I gave up on trying to solve the problem, but just found a page that explains how to install it properly, and when I followed those instructions, it went fine.
Now when I try to create a new Windows machine, from what appears to be a good Windows boot disk (and the one that I created my previous Windows machine from), I get a message “Creating process for virtual machine,” at 0% progress, and it’s stuck there. I’ve done a search, and come up pretty much empty. Any ideas?