I’ve belatedly launched my Kickstarter project to publish my book on our irrational attitudes toward safety on the high frontier. I’ve put a short fuse on it — just fifteen days to raise four grand. I’d like to raise a lot more, to really publicize the thing, but that’s the minimum I need to have a quality product, I think.
Everyone who contributes at least five bucks will get some form of the book. Please consider donating generously, if you want to see this get more attention in the new year.
Why companies are going to avoid hiring him or her.
A one-man crusade against bi-partisan stupidity.
John Muratore describes SpaceX’s approach to their SEU issues.
In at least four scary ways.
I’m about to launch another Kickstarter project to actually publish the Space Safety book (current title: Safe Is Not An Option: How Our Futile Obsession To Bring Everyone Back Is Killing Spaceflight). I’m trying to raise a few thousand to allow me to pay some people for a professional editing and illustration, and to start planning a symposium on the subject in conjunction with the Space Transportation Conference in DC in February, less than three months from now.
The book will probably be about a hundred pages, paperback. I don’t expect it to be a best seller at any price, but is ten bucks a reasonable number to get a book as a Kickstarter reward? I could sell for less, but I wouldn’t make much on it, unless I get enough interest to do an offset printing.
A report on what appears to be an interesting lecture. Fracking is going to have a lot of unforeseen effects.
Will Obama step in with TARP money, and then hand the company over to the Bakers Union and Nestle? That’s the GM/Chrysler precedent.
[Update a while later]
So much for the “this is just like Bain” narrative: a curious cast of characters are behind the Hostess business fiasco. And they’re not Republicans.
California now leads the nation in poverty.
I think it’s just “bad luck,” of the Heinleinian variety