This piece on the economic ignorance and irrationality of consumers reminds me of my old piece, “Three Cheers For Price Gougers.”
Category Archives: Economics
SLS Figures Of Merit
In response to this:
The @NASA_SLS boosters burn 1.5M pounds of propellant in 2 minutes – an average 6.25 tons of propellant every second! #FactFriday
— Explore Deep Space (@XploreDeepSpace) July 11, 2014
I tweeted this:
If total ascent burn time's ten minutes, @NASA_SLS burns about $10M taxpayer dollars per second. @XploreDeepSpace
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) July 11, 2014
The Heartland Climate Conference
An attempt to educate a reporter at Slate. It’s actually sort of a fisking by email.
Arianespace
How SpaceX is shaking it up.
That’s what disruption looks like.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Not to mention what’s happening to ULA.
The Costs Of Living On The Moon
How we could have better spent the money spent on the F-35.
The SLS costs are BS, though. If you really wanted to colonize the moon, you could actually get a lot more bang for the buck than this.
Mars 2021 Flyby
It looks like Taber and Jane haven’t given up yet. But they need to give up the SLS fantasy.
Space-Based Solar Power
I haven’t perused this article yet, but Japan has always taken the concept more seriously than we have (well, except briefly in the late seventies).
I Want To Do Apollo Again
Nothing has changed in four years, except the name of the rocket.
The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
Revealed. It’s always ironic to see all these rich leftists plotting to force the rest of us to spend our money on their pet projects.
Firefly Alpha
Jeff Foust reports on the new launch company’s first planned product, and wonders if there’s a market for it.