“…is just beginning.” Thoughts from commercial space pioneer Charles Miller.
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Admitting Mistakes
…”in a hostile environment.” Some thoughts from Judith Curry:
Ralph Keeling behaved with honesty and dignity by publicly admitting these errors and thanking Nic Lewis.
Such behavior shouldn’t be news, however; it is how all scientists should behave, always.
Imagine how the course of climate science and the public debate on climate change would be different if Michael Mann would have behaved in a similar way in response to McIntyre and McKitrick’s identification of problems with the hockey stick analysis.
I don’t think he’s capable of it.
By quickly admitting mistakes and giving credit where due, Ralph Keeling has done something unusual and laudatory in the field of climate science. If all climate scientists behaved this way, there would be no ‘hostile environment.’
I find it to be a sad state of affairs when a scientist admitting mistakes gets more kudos than the scientist actually finding the mistakes. But given the state of climate science, I guess finding mistakes seems to be a more common story than a publishing scientist actually admitting to mistakes.
Sadly, yes.
Why It Took So Long To Replace Shuttle
A frustrating history from Scott Manley.
Seasteading
Bob Zubrin approvingly reviews a new book on the topic. There is an institute to promote this, and I just signed up for the newsletter.
Japan In Space
Eric Berger got an all-expenses-paid trip there, courtesy of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, to see what’s going on there.
The BFR
…is under construction at the Port of LA.
Reason At Fifty
Matt Welch describes the history of the magazine. I just finished Bob Poole’s new book
Who Lost The House?
It was John McCain.
I think there is a case to be made there. And health care remains a disaster, because of terrible federal policies that Obamacare did nothing to address.
Enceladus
Breakthrough and NASA have signed a Space Act Agreement for support of a private mission. This is the most likely way for it to happen, and it will probably happen before a Europa mission (it probably would have even with Culberson, given the requirement to use SLS).
Social Media
Six horrible things it’s doing that you may not grasp.
Not counting web pages on browsers, the only social media app I have installed on my phone is Twitter.