…is coming to commercial aviation.
It’s hard to overstate what a technological revolution this is going to be.
Category Archives: Business
The 97% Number That Won’t Die
The problem is that the issue is not whether or not “humans are causing global warming.” I can concede that there is a good possibility of that, and it still has zero implications for policy, absent quantification with sufficient confidence levels, which remain lacking.
[Afternoon update]
“Climatologists will say that the way the question is worded depends on whether they are included,” Morano said. “We have many skeptical scientists included as the 97 percent because of the way the questions [in surveys] are asked are so vague and broadly worded.”
Yup.
Gregg Easterbrook
I’ve had my differences with him over the years, but he has a piece in the WSJ with which I basically agree. I’d say the only thing he gets wrong was that it was Apollo itself that set us on the wrong path. The Shuttle was just a symptom of Apolloism.
[Behind the paywall, but do a Google search for “Mission to Nowhere” and it should come up]
Why Bernie Is Terrible
An amusingly long screed from a “progressive.”
[Afternoon update]
Sanders fracking ban would kill jobs and drive up utility bills, hurting the poor most of all.
Gee, it’s almost as though he doesn’t care about poor people as much as he says he does. Either that, or he’s an imbecile. Of course, those aren’t mutually exclusive.
The Irony Of RICO
Several states Attorneys General and green groups colluded to go after a false conspiracy theory.
See, if we had an U.S. Attorney General who actually cared about the law, she’d be going after them with RICO, instead of private organizations.
The Minimum Wage
How it helped wreck Puerto Rico’s economy.
Let’s do it here!
[Update a while later]
Minimum wage, maximum ignorance.
It’s almost as though they want to blight the lives of the young and working poor.
Empty Dorms, Empty Mansions
Bill Nye The Fascist Guy
And NASA isn’t covering itself in glory here, either.
@nuclear94 #ProTip: Actual scientists don't propose jailing people who disagree with them. @BillNye @neiltyson
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) April 15, 2016
I was in the same room with Nye a couple nights ago, at a reception. I felt like I needed a safe space.
Yesterday’s Launch Panel At NSS
Tory Bruno and Gwynne Shotwell have very different space-business philosophies. I think that Gwynne is right, but the good news is that for now, the two companies are more complementary than competitive. And the Air Force will want to continue to maintain two providers.
Bezos’s Space Vision
Alan Boyle interviewed him on stage on Tuesday afternoon. Here’s the transcript.
What he said may have been new concepts to many, but they’re all ideas that go back decades. The difference is that he’s funding them himself, and not waiting for the government to do it.