I think it was Reagan who said there was no eternal life, except for a govenment program. The Trump administration is apparently making America great again by ending work on fixing something that didn’t happen seventeen years ago.
Category Archives: Business
Elon And Mars
He’s published his plan.
I haven’t read it yet, but then, I don’t care much about Mars.
Ending Hip And Knee Replacements
…by 3-D printing cartilage in place.
Faster, please.
Our Failed Political Class And “Elites”
Some links and thoughts from Instapundit:
We need to take a serious look at how we select these people. Our current method is not working.
Well, it’s working for them. For now.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, Bob Mueller is looking worse and worse:
Four top lawyers hired by Mueller have contributed tens of thousands of dollars over the years to the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates, including former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump’s 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton.
One of the hires, Jeannie Rhee, also worked as a lawyer for the Clinton Foundation and helped persuade a federal judge to block a conservative activist’s attempts to force Bill and Hillary Clinton to answer questions under oath about operations of the family-run charity.
Campaign-finance reports show that Rhee gave Clinton the maximum contributions of $2,700 in 2015 and again last year to support her presidential campaign. She also donated $2,300 to Obama in 2008 and $2,500 in 2011. While still at the Justice Department, she gave $250 to the Democratic National Committee Services Corp.
Rhee also has contributed to a trio of Democratic senators: Mark Udall of New Mexico, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
Congress should ask him to testify about this.
A Wet Workshop
Almost half a century after Skylab, private companies are proposing to outfit a propellant tank on orbit.
Key issue is getting life support going in it quickly, so they don't have to work in suits to outfit it. https://t.co/kZWHojKknt
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) June 12, 2017
Cell Phones
Could we have had them four decades earlier?
I don’t think they’re all that great even today. I only use mine when I have no other choice. But I work from home.
Renewable Energy
Some former officials are alarmed at Trump’s proposed cuts at DoE.
I don’t have a problem with R&D, but if this is cutting subsidies (particularly like Solyndra), slash away.
A Stupid Quiz
This is stupid. Ignores issue of where to get power for electric cars, and that a plant-based diet isn't healthy. https://t.co/AGZzNG3Xmv
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) June 12, 2017
It also assumes that the only potential future energy sources are solar or wind. Completely ignores nuclear.
Private Space Exploration
There was an interesting conference in New York last week (that I would have liked to attend if it had been in my budget). It’s still hard to raise money for it, because modern philanthropists don’t know the history
[Update a while later]
Sorry, added missing link.
U.S. Air Traffic Control
My friend Bob Poole (who has been advocating this for almost half a century) says it’s time to get it out of the sixties.