Tomorrow’s test of the escape system (that will likely destroy the booster) has been rescheduled for Wednesday, due to weather.
Hanging out a bit longer in the Texas desert til weather behaves https://t.co/bkIWerr79X
— Ariane Cornell (@arianecornell) October 3, 2016
…has its day in court. I suspect that it it were to get to even the current SCOTUS, it would lose. Like many of the other administration’s initiatives, this is lawless tyranny.
Why they are at least as moral as wages. This kind of irrationality is more than partly a consequence of the failure of the public-education system. Or its success, depending on one’s point of view.
I don’t think that vertical takeoff, horizontal landing is the best way to go. Anyway, I’ll believe it when I see it.
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Bad link is fixed now, sorry.
The new standard that pushes 5 Gb/s through Cat 6.
What looks to be an interesting paper from Martin Elvis, an astrophysicist who groks private spaceflight.
This won’t be the first take on it, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. He worries too much about Martian winds, though.
[Noon update]
Is Elon Musk this generation’s von Braun?
If it “had done no better than match the postwar average, the US economy would be more than two trillion dollars richer than it is — which translates to thousands of dollars per American household.
Heckuva job, Barry.”
This is why it’s such deception by the Democrats to say “how many jobs were created.” It ignores how many weren’t, or were destroyed.
A preview:
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Here’s Nadia Drake’s story on the announcement. The Q and A ended up being sort of a goat rodeo.
[Update early evening, PDT]
Here’s the full presentation.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Here’s Eric Berger’s take, and Jeff Foust’s. And one from Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society.
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And Chris Davenport’s.
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And Loren Grush says there’s still a lot to figure out. No kidding.
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And Wayne McCandless is skeptical (with a plug of my book).
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Thoughts from Bob Zubrin.
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Joel Achenbach says don’t pack your bags for Mars yet. And Ken Chang says Elon just needs to figure out how to pay for it. Well, I think there are other issues as well. Meanwhile, the National Space Society is gung ho (as they should be, it’s much more in line with the group’s stated objective than anything NASA is doing).
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Miri Kramer’s five takeaways.
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McCandless link was missing, but I fixed it.
In response to Dreier:
SpaceX's slate isn't as blank as he thinks. SpaceX has more recent experience developing operational rockets than NASA does. https://t.co/2tzy9tv8S1
— Deplorable-In-Chief (@Rand_Simberg) September 28, 2016
[Update early afternoon]
Here’s Alan Boyle’s take.
And Elon answered yesterday’s question about how they get down to the surface:
@BArtusio Three cable elevator on a crane. Wind force on Mars is low, so don't need to worry about being blown around.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 28, 2016
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Bill Nye doesn’t buy it. But the Planetary Society doesn’t want “filthy meatbag bodies” on Mars, anyway.
Speaking of which, I’m pretty sure that this announcement will re-energize the SJWs.
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An amusing take over at Wait But Why. And one of the first, but certainly not last takes on planetary protection and the Outer Space Treaty.
But, but…PEAK OIL!
I predict that the wealth generated by cheap fossil energy will vastly exceed the costs of mitigating changes in climate, regardless of their cause.