Thoughts from Jonathan Turley on canceling Steven Pinker.
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The Woke mob’s “reign of terror” moment.
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Bob Zimmerman is genuinely concerned that genocide is coming to America.
There are still a few people alive who remember what happened in Germany in the thirties, and no one in the twenties could have imagined it could happen. The irony, of course, is that the people most likely to do this think that Trump is Hitler.
…it still really, really sucks.
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Sorry, link is fixed.
I’m starting to wonder if Boeing will ever fly crew on Starliner. It’s clearly not going to happen this year, and Starship work continues apace.
Thoughts on our corrupt ruling class.
This is an excellent overview.
If I’d been one of those AvWeek reporters, I’d have asked her to expand on that.
An interesting new discovery by LRO:
“If this hypothesis is true, only the first few hundred meters of the moon’s surface possesses little iron and titanium oxides, according to NASA. ‘But below the surface, there’s a steady increase to a rich and unexpected bonanza,’ it said.”
At the Space Settlement Summit last fall in Pasadena, a Canadian mining engineer berated the assembled for lack of seriousness when it comes to lunar resources. “You have no idea what’s under that dust,” he said, “and you won’t until you get up there and start drilling.” I thanked him for the comment, noting that for people who claim to want to develop the solar system, we think really small, likely from hanging out with NASA too much.
Robin Hanson says we will colonize the sun first.
Who is ready to go back to them?
The notion of wearing a mask in a restaurant is absurd. You can’t eat with a mask on. This is another area in which the pandemic hasn’t affected me much, because I’ve never liked going out to eat at restaurants, other than for social reasons. It’s both expensive and unhealthy to pay someone else to cook for you, and I don’t like having people serve me.
Rocketlab didn’t go to space today, or at least not to orbit.
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Here’s the story from Eric Berger.