At the end of this road lies Lysenkoism. It’s what happens when the government is the primary funder of scientific research.
Category Archives: Business
Just What We Needed
If you die in the game, you die in real life.
This seems quite Darwinian.
Vega C
Arianespace has another failure.
I predicted years ago that Ariane 6 would be obsolete before it flew. I suspect that its executives are starting to figure that out now, and are going to have to stop denigrating, and instead start imitating, SpaceX.
Silicon-Valley Fraudsters
Are they today’s robber barons?
As Glenn notes, unlike the Carnegies, Rockefellers and J. P. Morgans, these robber barons haven’t given us much except toxic social media. The exception being, of course, Elon Musk.
Try, Try Again
China’s first attempt to put a methane-fueled rocket into orbit has failed.
The Fifth Estate
The media continues to minimize what was happening at Twitter, and the role of the government, while demonizing Elon Musk.
Two Antithetical Billionaires
The Orbital Debris Problem
An interview with Moriba Jah.
Eugene Volokh
…refuses to be drafted into the speech police.