[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.
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.
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.
…will impoverish America.
Why yes, yes it would.
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]
It’s just more junk science, that has wrecked state and local economies.
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?
An interesting new video.
A depressing, but probably correct analysis (scare quotes because they’re leftists, not liberals).
Celebrating half a century of failed predictions.
[Update a couple minutes later]
John Kerry, moron: ” ‘Even if we get to net zero, we still need to get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,’ Kerry said. ‘This is a bigger challenge than a lot of people have really grabbed on to yet.’ “
I wonder if he knows that without CO2 in the atmosphere, almost all life on earth would die?