…is born in Florida.
I think a high-speed rail between LA and Vegas could potentially make sense, if they tunnel through the mountains.
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Here’s an older article about the project. The FEC line runs a couple miles blocks from the house we own in Boca Raton.
Some thoughts on the false history of its evils.
Manufactured from cheap natural gas?
That would be a huge breakthrough.
An interesting interview about spaceflight regulation with COO Andrew Nelson.
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I should note that much of this is ground that I cover and justify in the book.
It’s not working as advertised, but it is working according to its design.
Could it explain the Fermi paradox?
Jeff Foust has the details.
As usual, SLS/Orion is funded above the request, and Commercial Crew below it. And technology takes it in the shorts yet again. But at least they didn’t underfund Commercial Crew as much as they have in the past. It’s only about a hundred-twenty-five million less than the $800M+ request. It apparently also contains a three-year extension on launch indemnification.
Note that Congress is demanding a cost-benefit analysis for Commercial Crew, but (as Clark Lindsey notes) not one for the wasteful $3B that’s going to SLS/Orion.
How Democrats kill them. While lying (perhaps even to themselves) about how they’re creating them.
Republicans should own the issue, with competition and markets, and fighting cronyism:
Well, no. Inequality has increased across advanced economies. Macro factors such as globalization and technology deserve most — but maybe not all — of the “blame.” Big Government loves to pick winners and losers in the private sector. Some lucky ducks owe their place in the 1 percent or 0.1 percent or 0.01 percent to federal favoritism. Conservatives shouldn’t mind at all when value-creating innovators and entrepreneurs strike it rich while crony capitalists do not. The precious tax breaks and subsidies that go to rent seekers, such as those in the agriculture and alternative-energy sectors, should get the ax. Sorry, Big Sugar and Big Solar.
Unfortunately, they don’t mind cronyism that much, as long at it’s their cronyism.