An interesting Twitter thread by Phil Metzger.
Category Archives: Business
The Coming 1984 Election
It does feel like a huge clash of visions coming. And one of them is an Orwellian nightmare.
Unsustainable California
What can’t go on, will eventually come to a stop.
I think the only question is how it will play out.
[Update at noon]
Mark Pulliam is voting (again) with his feet.
[Update a few minutes later]
Boise residents: “Go back to California.”
Snowflakes
Pricing Health-Care Services
Any elective procedure should be transparently priced. That’s it’s not is one of the disasters of the current health-insurance situation.
Launch Costs
In light of the latest admissions, some thoughts from Wayne Hale.
Age-Resistant Mice
…with hyperlong telomeres.
“These unprecedented results show that longer than normal telomeres in a given species are not harmful but quite the contrary: they have beneficial effects, such as increased longevity, delayed metabolic age and less cancer,” concludes the team.
The telomere theory has been around for decades, but we seem to be getting closer to actual implementation.
Just Fly Already
NASA is planning to reduce crew size on ISS because of uncertainty in Commercial Crew. This probably means no research during that period.
Altius
Congratulations to Jon Goff and his team. This will help with space investment in general, I think.
SLS Costs
For years, NASA has been providing a BS number of a billion dollars a flight (with no basis). Now, at least the White House is admitting that it’s at least two billion.
And here’s an update this morning. Yes, five billion a flight is a low estimate.