An interesting perspective on working men.
The statistic of how many construction workers are killed each year makes NASA’s insistence on absolute astronaut safety at all costs seem even more insane. Once we get serious about space, people are going to die up there, but NASA will never be allowed to get serious about space.
Has it begun?
Here’s an overview of the state of the art of needed technologies to beam power to earth, from almost three decades ago, when I was working at Rockwell. I ran across it in trying to reduce the entropy of my office. It’s funny how little has changed.
Sorry about the rotation; that’s how it scanned into the PDF. Just rotate it with your browser.
An MSNBC producer quits and spills the beans.
Democrats always start a civil war when someone threatens to take away their slaves.
It’s getting ready for the flight attempt. Watch it live.
[Update a while later]
Looks like another scrub; they’re detanking. Probably not today.
…is the natural product of our educational system.
Fortunately, as noted there, the pandemic has done much to pop that bubble, and make people rethink the whole thing. To the degree that government funding is involved, we need to start funding students, not systems.
[Update a while later]
Woke colleges are an assembly line for conformity.
Yes, Trump should issue an executive order on this, except unfortunately, it would taint the concept.
Why they won’t debate you. As noted there, there is nothing liberal about them.
A reader emailed me, asking why I hadn’t mentioned this weekend’s return of Endeavour from ISS (it will be splashing down in about three hours). I replied that there wasn’t much to talk about; the entire mission has been utterly nominal. At this point, like Elon, I’m much more interested in Starship. It would be great if it can take its first flight on the same day that Dragon returns with crew, though.
[Noon PDT update]
They’re in the water, and SpaceX’s job is done. It appears to have been a perfect flight.
[Update at 1230 PDT]
Where the hell was the Coast Guard? How did those private boats get so close to the capsule? I can’t believe they didn’t set up a perimeter. Meanwhile…