A 2019 update.
TL;DR: They continue to run hot.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Climate utopias and engineering reality.
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How to trigger a global recession overnight? Ban fracking.
[Late-morning update]
Judith Curry reflects on “Climategate,” a decade later. Hard to believe it’s really been that long.
An interesting Twitter thread by Phil Metzger.
It does feel like a huge clash of visions coming. And one of them is an Orwellian nightmare.
What can’t go on, will eventually come to a stop.
I think the only question is how it will play out.
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Mark Pulliam is voting (again) with his feet.
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Boise residents: “Go back to California.”
Any elective procedure should be transparently priced. That’s it’s not is one of the disasters of the current health-insurance situation.
In light of the latest admissions, some thoughts from Wayne Hale.
NASA is planning to reduce crew size on ISS because of uncertainty in Commercial Crew. This probably means no research during that period.
For years, NASA has been providing a BS number of a billion dollars a flight (with no basis). Now, at least the White House is admitting that it’s at least two billion.
And here’s an update this morning. Yes, five billion a flight is a low estimate.
It could (maybe) be done in a century.
But no, I don’t think they’d have to learn to eat crickets. The paucity of imagination in studies like this is always amazing.
If SpaceX pulls this off, it’s going to be pretty embarrassing for NASA (and Congress).