…is rebounding.
Which is profoundly disappointing to people who want us to freeze and starve in the dark with windmills and solar panels.
Category Archives: Business
Socialist Or Fascist?
What is Barack Obama?
Embrace the power of “and.”
[Update a while later]
Barack Obama: History’s worst president?
A case could be made, but it depends on your criteria.
Molly Macauley
This is terrible; I’m in shock. She was murdered last night, walking her dogs in her upscale Baltimore neighborhood.
I’ve known her for decades. I just saw her in March, at a NASA-sponsored workshop on space safety that she had put together at RFF. The report is due out any day.
In addition to being a wonderful woman, this is a huge loss to the space community; she was one of the few economists really focusing on the economics of space development. My condolences to her other friends, and family.
Rationalia
More thoughts from Kevin Williamson.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Another piece at New Scientist. It’s a terrible idea.
[Bumped]
Climate Research
I’d say it’s worse than useless; it’s actively societally harmful.
“Peak” Oil
The U.S’s oil reserves now larger than Saudi Arabia’s.
Huh. Like Glenn, I’m also old enough to remember when the Obama the Wise told us we couldn’t drill our way out of the energy situation. Reminder: Every resource is a renewable resource with sufficiently cheap energy.
Life Extension
It might be possible to live thirty years longer. I wonder to what degree treating diabetes with metformin will also extend life? I also think that people confuse cause and effect between aging and many of the “diseases of aging.”
I think there’s potential for much more than that. I don’t buy the notion that the body can’t be repaired indefinitely. It violates no laws of physics.
[Afternoon update]
The mystery of the Missing Link has been solved once again!
The Wolves Of Silicon Valley
Joel Kotkin and Victor Davis Hanson have both written about the California oligarchy, but this piece points out their cruel but self-righteous youth:
“There are literally shanty towns underneath most highway overpasses in the city,” says Martínez. “But that techie kid who goes and gets his $5 single-origin, cruelty-free pour-over in some trendy coffee shop? He doesn’t give a s***. He just wants to get some liquidity around his shares and steps over the homeless guy en route to his yoga class.”
And, of course, as Ed Driscoll points out, and will come as no surprise to readers here, the dirty little secret is that they’re self-righteous Democrats.
College Snowflakes
What’s next for them? With bonus video from Ashe Schow.
The Apollo Cargo Cult Incarnate
Reading comments on Donald Robertson’s excellent disquisition on SLS in Space News, I don’t think anyone so encapsulates the insanity as Gary Church.
I should note that I found this link via the space-policy section of Reddit, which I’ve added to the blog roll.
Oh, and speaking of insanity on human spaceflight policy, I’d like to fisk this nonsense, but it’s long, and I just don’t have the gumption for it right now. I doubt if many have even read the stupid thing.