Eric Berger was there last night.
And if you have the time, a good explanation of the Raptor engine design.
Category Archives: Business
An “Anti-Space” Event
He doesn’t realize it, but “anti-space” events are really anti-humanity events. And as always, I am not impressed by people who think they are better arbiters of how other people should spend their money than those who are spending the money.
Commercial Space Hearing
It’s starting in the House. Looks like a good line up of witnesses, including Laura Montgomery.
“We Don’t Need Space Colonies”
I don’t know where to start with this ignorant burning of a field of strawmen.
A Quiet Air Conditioner
I’m going to look into this, despite the fact that it’s “smart.” I hate things that are smart. My A/C does not need to talk to the cloud. It would be nice if they’d make a dumb one that was cheaper, but probably smarts don’t cost much.
Lunar Ice
There may be a lot more of it than we thought. And we were already thinking there’s quite a bit.
Easing Drone Restrictions
I’d been wondering about this. We just bought one (small one, for a hundred bucks at Fry’s), and we certainly have no plans for it to go out of line of sight, or the neighborhood, but I need to look up whether it needs to be registered, legally.
Puerto Rico
It strikes me that the fact that the asshat governor in San Juan is pro statehood is probably a big strike against the movement. I’ve long thought, since we lost the bases, that we should just give PR independence.
The Next Fifty Years On The Moon
An interesting essay, but it has a few problems. First…
And they repeatedly use the phrase “lunar soil.” In fact we just update Evoloterra this weekend to fix this ourselves.
Finally, we have this comment, which seems gratuitous and almost a non sequitur in the context of this article:
The NASA Moon Base
What might it look like?
Still not clear to me that NASA will be the one to do it.