Why robots can’t outrun the fastest animals.
Category Archives: Business
Polaris Dawn
Eric Berger has the story on the upcoming flight.
[update a while later]
As per usual, many of the comments are idiotic hating on billionaires.
Using Any Means Necessary
“They are full of envy. They penalize success and ingenuity. They are for the collective over the individual. They want no consequences to actions, nor do they understand why failure when taking risks is important. They like to rule from their ivory towers knowing full well anything that happens won’t affect them directly.
They hate freedom and capitalism. The US is the beacon of it and by every shred of evidence, it works pretty damn well. We have over 200 years of history that shows it works significantly better than any other place on earth or any form of government that has been tried since mankind walked the earth.”
College Admissions
People who prioritize activism in admissions are surprised that they’ve created a monster.
Starliner
With the upcoming launch today, Eric Berger writes that the surprise is not that it took so long, but that it happened at all.
Has Boeing done anything right, or well recently?
[Update a few minutes later]
Reading in the article about the “incident” at White Sands, I recall that I was sitting next to Chris Ferguson at an Apollo 49th-anniversary dinner at KSC a month or so afterward, and I said something like “I heard you had a little oopsie at WSMR.” He said, “You’re not supposed to know about that.” I’m sure that he wished that I (and others) didn’t know about that.
Starship Update
What’s new on ship 30 (and possibly 29 as well).
[Thursday-morning update]
Meanwhile, over at NASA, the agency seems peeved at its Inspector General, as Artemis delays continue to seem inevitable.
There was never any prospect of a serious human lunar program from NASA until it is allowed to end its dependence on SLS/Orion.
May 1st
With all the current insanity on campus, it’s worth noting that today is Victims of Communism Day.
The Orion Heat Shield
NASA still doesn’t understand the root cause.
Once SpaceX works out the heat shield problems on Starship, it won’t really matter.
Prescriptive Racism
As I’ve long noted, Democrats never became less racist. If anything, they’ve become even more so with their insane obsession with race.
Along those lines, Free Black Thought seems like a good cause to support.
Dealing With China In Space
Greg Autry discusses his new book (with Peter Navarro).