Laura Montgomery has a new short story out.
Category Archives: Business
Earth Surface Temperatures
Anthony Watts has been vindicated after all these years.
New California
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds on California’s seceding from the coastal fascists. I don’t understand why the silly-looking gerrymander to keep Sacramento with the coastal “elites.” Set up a new state capital in San Jose or LA, and let the real California keep the delta.
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This seems sort of related: How the big tech companies went from “Don’t be evil” to doing evil.
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Steven Kruiser: “Dear California, call me when the commies leave.” I love this state, have for half a century, but I hate its voters.
#NeverTrump
Sarah Rumpf had a little tweetstorm the other day, and I largely agree with her. I continue to be happy she lost, and happy with many of the policy outcomes, but that doesn’t mean that I have to abandon my principles just because the clown in the White House apparently has none.
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Hillary Clinton, the woman in the high castle.
To The Moon
Bob Zubrin says we need a purpose-driven space program.
Not enough opportunities for graft in that.
California
…has the worst quality of life in the nation. Yes, if you’re not rich, and/or a current homeowner, you’re screwed.
Mars And SLS
I really find Chris Carberry’s op-ed on SLS incomprehensible. Oh, I don’t mean I don’t understand it, it just seems disconnected with reality, and the interests of anyone seriously interested in seeing humans go to Mars. He speaks about SLS as thought it has kind of reality, and actual utility. To me, a sane Mars organization would be screaming bloody murder at the waste of money to the detriment of hardware needed to actually get to Mars.
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Thoughts on the ever-receding SLS, from Bob Zimmerman.
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Space Colonies
This idiotic sort of thing is what my current project, to make the international legal environment more friendly to space development and settlement, partially about.
Acculturating
It’s hard. Very hard.
If you don’t read Sarah Hoyt every day, you should.
Building Light And Huge
Brian Wang (who I met at Foresight Vision Weekend in December) has a good roundup of the coming revolution in space assembly.