Kamala Harris says we can create it.
These leftists, continually in denial about human nature, have no sense of self awareness.
Category Archives: Economics
Colorado
The bullies are running it. And ruining it. We’d been thinking of retiring there, but we’re rethinking that now.
A New Space Project To Mars
In New Zealand. Entirely by women. Hey, more power to them.
Keep Cars, But Don’t Make People Drive Them
An alternate, and more realistic version of the Green Leap Forward.
Two points: I fear the day that we won’t be allowed to drive, except in special circumstances (like amusement parks).
Point Two: I suspect that a lot of current auto traffic will move to the air, with the advent of Urban Air Mobility, particularly if the vehicles can be powered from the ground (e.g., Jeff Greason’s and Dan DeLong’s Electric Sky is working on such a concept). Airbus has an interesting concept of moving passengers via passenger modules that are moved from one vehicle type to another, like cargo containers, in which you’d share a pod with people from your door to an aircraft, to a long-range aircraft, to another aircraft, to the other door. That’s a lot more interesting and flexible concept than high-speed rail.
The Real Pucker Factor
For Dragon, it will be early tomorrow morning, when it enters and is recovered.
If Crew Dragon lands (waters?) successfully tomorrow, the U.S. will clearly have human spaceflight capability again. If NASA chooses not to use it immediately, that's a choice, but the notion that we can't get Americans into space from American soil will no longer be true.
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 7, 2019
[Friday-morning update]
Congratulations, @SpaceX, for what appears to be a flawless test flight. Time to fly now, and flip Putin (and Rogozin) the bird.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 8, 2019
[Noon update]
What SpaceX’s success means for America.
Eating Healthy
Yes, it’s possible to do it on a budget. The problem with this is that the USDA guidelines are terrible:
The menus offered a variety of food, didn’t have processed foods, were affordable and didn’t require always require cooking to prepare. Each menu also had manageable portions of food without high fat or salt content.
There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with high fat or salt content, as long as the fat isn’t seed oils.
Roscosmos
It’s not really acting. They have been left behind.
But, while I like Sandy, this kind of thing continues to drive me crazy.
Oh, Sandy. Is there anyone out there who thinks it's at all important to end our dependence on Putin to get our astronauts into space? https://t.co/dv1IhziJQc
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 7, 2019
Two NASA Directorates
Compare and contrast. This is why NASA human spaceflight is a mess.
“We’re At The Barnstorming Phase”
An interview about our future in space with Jeff Bezos.
He doesn’t really say anything that I haven’t been preaching for literally decades, but it’s nice to see that (finally) someone with money gets it.
Freeman Dyson
“We don’t understand climate.”
He’s not wrong.
[Update late morning]
Is climate change like an asteroid, or diabetes? I’d say neither, but to the limited degree that it’s an understood problem, diabetes is a much better analogy.