Bob Zimmerman has some thoughts.
Category Archives: Economics
How Falcon 9 Learned To Land
A nice video of the history.
Locovorism
I think worshiping local foods is stupid; our ancestors were all locovores, of necessity (unless you call hauling a mammoth carcass miles an import). Their diet generally sucked.
But I’m amused to see how rife with fraud the movement is.
Donald Trump Versus Howard Roark
If Trump really is an Ayn Rand fan, I suspect it’s because (like other Democrats) he views The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as how-to manuals, rather than cautionary tales.
Nuclear Power
Why it’s time to dispel the myths about it.
Long past time, I’d say. The Guardian has had surprisingly good science and technology coverage lately.
Elon’s Good Week
First he sells several billion dollars worth of cars, then he lands a rocket on a ship, live on television, while throwing a private expandable hab into orbit.
From SpaceX’s standpoint, they now have another used rocket that they will almost certainly refly, for testing if not another operational mission.
If I could retweet this x100 I would. Space Access! https://t.co/oWuMBkj8tO
— The High Frontier (@thehighfrontier) April 8, 2016
[Update a while later]
I tweeted prior to flight that they were probably expecting a successful landing, given that (unlike last time) they weren’t downplaying chances of success. Nice to see Elon confirm that.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Minimum Wage
The good and the bad.
It’s not virtuous, it’s just virtue signaling.
Graphene
Is there anything it can’t do?
“It’s 500 times thinner than the best filter on the market today and a thousand times stronger,” Stetson explained to Reuters. “The energy that’s required and the pressure that’s required to filter salt is approximately 100 times less.”
Faster, please. This would help people world wide, but we could use it in coastal CA as well.
No Sex Dolls, Please
This tech is inevitable, barring a civilizational collapse. Which it may cause.
Close Calls In Space
A nice poster from S&MA at JSC.
We need a lot more of these. https://t.co/eBTcCPSC6a
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) April 5, 2016