Is now the time?
It seems like a very promising future, with a lot of converging technologies and trends.
Category Archives: Business
High-Speed Rail
From Beijing to CONUS? Under the Bering Strait?
I don’t think so.
Rocket Science Airlines
I have no comment.
The Climate Debate Is Over
…and the alarmists lost.
[Update a while later]
Why is Obama getting a pass on his climate lies?
Really, at this point, why does anyone believe anything he says any more?
3-D Printing And Spaceflight
Ten ways it could revolutionize it.
I really think we are on the verge of the most exciting era for human spaceflight since the sixties.
“Shovel Ready” Jobs
Why does the Left hate work?
Some on the right think this strategy is part of a grand plan. They see an increase in the number of Americans who are dependent on the federal government as beneficial to Democrats, who largely win the votes of those to whom they offer ever-higher benefits and welfare. I refuse to imagine that any such insidious thinking is behind the left’s refusal to embrace job creation.
I believe, instead, that it springs from a wide-spread lack of private sector experience. President Obama believes the government can right all wrongs – that’s the wellspring from which community activists derive their inspiration. It is a philosophy that has done great damage to this country in recent years – and we’re not out of the woods yet.
I think she’s too kind.
The New Crew Systems
A story on Dragon, CST and Dreamchaser at the Daily Mail.
The National Climate “Assessment”
Judith Curry has the goods on this latest bout of junk science:
My main conclusion from reading the report is this: the phrase ‘climate change’ is now officially meaningless. The report effectively implies that there is no climate change other than what is caused by humans, and that extreme weather events are equivalent to climate change. Any increase in adverse impacts from extreme weather events or sea level rise is caused by humans. Possible scenarios of future climate change depend only on emissions scenarios that are translated into warming by climate models that produce far more warming than has recently been observed.
Roger Pielke approves.
Health-Care Spending
The notion that the ACA will reduce it is Obama’s biggest lie?
I don’t know. It’s got a lot of stiff competition.
FUD From NASA And CNES
They try to tell SpaceX how hard reusability is.
I’ve got to run some errands, but I’ll have some comments later. Briefly, though, Dumbacher’s comparison with the SSME is pretty much worthless.