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Business, Economics, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

NASA’s Starship Award

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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]

Administrative, Business, Technology and Society

New VB Problem

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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?

Business, Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society

Earth Day

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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?