Will they beat us back?
They certainly won’t have a problem beating NASA back, given its political constraints. I do think that a private effort could beat them.
Category Archives: Business
That 1938 Feeling
I’ve been having it, too.
Any Decade Now
With anniversaries coming up, Doug Messier reports on Virgin Galactic’s “progress.”
I weep when I think what could have been done with those hundreds of millions if they hadn’t been wasted on such a misbegotten concept.
The Samizdat Prize
An interview with the winners: Miranda Devine, Matt Taibbi, and Jay Battacharya. Well deserved.
Twilight Of The Wonks
A long, but interesting history.
Baltimore
It’s a lot more than just a broken bridge.
Near-Future SF
Yes.
Going Woke And Going Broke
Why our institutions keep doing it.
Commercial ISR
Various factions of the DoD are fighting over it.
This is great, considering that a few years ago none of them wanted anything to do with it.
Space And Success
Thoughts on the various forms of complexity in evaluating it.