A new podcast series, featuring (among others) Glenn Reynolds, Bob Zubrin, Bob Zimmerman, and Yours Truly, on the coming expansion into the solar system.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Episode 1 is up now.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Here’s Episode 3, with Bob Zubrin.
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An article about Homer Hickam and Yours Truly. They get this wrong, though: “…while Hickam and Simberg may disagree on the value of safety, they may agree that NASA could not afford to suffer such losses, especially considering pressures from Congress and the general public.”
Homer and I do not in fact disagree on the value of safety. Here is his review of the book.
We shouldn’t let it go to waste.
The people at Flexport took a tour yesterday. A large part of the solution is (at least temporarily) deregulation. But it will be economically devastating if we don’t fix this soon.
[Update Saturday afternoon]
Problem solved. This is kind of amazing. Petersen is a leader, and a hero.
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…is still not understood.
[Update Friday afternoon]
The latest SLS follies: This isn’t insane at all.
[Via Instapundit, who notes that our ruling class is inconsistent, but makes up for it by being stupid and cruel]
…and the end of civilization.
Thoughts on the feckless Left.
…says that inflation and shortages are “high-class” problems.
I hadn’t previously realized how high class the Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe were, or Venezuela is.
It’s too late tonight for me to link for the evidence of this, but I’m sure that commenters can find plenty of evidence. The ports are only one example.