Via Robert Shibley, who has an elegant solution to the problem: “1. Capitalize the schools to loan enough money for 4 years of student loans. 2. No selling the loan notes – let them loan the money and collect it. The end. What do you wanna bet that college suddenly gets rigorous and cheap?”
I’d take that bet.
They just didn’t stop Covid.
The great strategic opportunity?
We could do worse, and probably will.
This will…complicate…Newsom’s presidential bid.
This could be huge. And if it’s true, it might also partly validate Thomas Gold’s theory that natural gas is abiotic (and also unlimited).
“Why I am against it, and you should be, too.”
Regular people can’t afford them any more.
I’ve never bought a new car, and there’s no way I’d do it at these crazy prices. At some point, though, you’d think that one of the automakers would go after this unserved market, and drive prices down with some competition.
…is Marxism re-branded.
Yup.
I’m glad to see that Blue Origin is making some breakthroughs in some areas. This implies (among other things) that solar power satellites could be partially constructed from lunar materials. The question is whether it makes economic sense compared to low-cost launch from Earth.
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[Tuesday-morning update]
Here’s the story from Eric Berger.