In which Drew Johnson doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about.
#ProTip, Drew. If you’re worried about taxpayer money being wasted on space progress, go dig into SLS/Orion.
Category Archives: Economics
California
The totalitarian state.
If it seceded, we’d be out of here ASAP, because the Constitution is the only thing holding these fascists back.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Is California at peak progressive? I hope so.
[Bumped]
[Thursday-morning update]
The slow, painful death of California.
[Late-morning update]
Mike Solana: Extract, or die.
When I first saw the title, I thought it would be about the need of the state to utilize its energy resources. But nope. It’s an excoriation of San Francisco’s government.
[Christmas-morning update]
Rural CA to Newsom: “Kiss our ass.”
All I want for Christmas is a citizens’ revolt against tyranny. As Mike Rowe says, safety third.
[Update a few minutes later]
In the state just to the north, patriots are starting to water the tree of liberty.
Biden And Climate
He’s not fixing a crisis; he’s creating one.
The notion that the Democrats are the “party of science” is ludicrous.
Orion
Six years after its maiden (and only) flight, Eric Berger has some thoughts.
[Update a few minutes later]
From a comment over there:
Probably the most salient points:
A mockup lacking many critical systems flew into space once, six years ago.
The next test flight is basically another mockup, lacking even life support systems.
The first full-up complete vehicle launch is supposed to be with crew trusting their lives to a vehicle which has never been flight tested with systems complete, and also a similarly never-flown service module. Because for all the expense and mass, Orion doesn’t have much duration without a service module.
NASA safety culture at work. Mountains of paperwork instead of actual testing on actual hardware.
Just getting this far on Orion has been 15 years and $24B.
Ridiculous pork capsule to match a ridiculous pork rocket in the SLS.
Yup. It’s a Potemkin space program.
California’s Business-Climate Deniers
At what point, if any, will Sacramento get the message?
The College Debt Debate
…is a culture-war battle.
Related: Schumer wants Biden to transfer wealth from auto mechanics to Harvard grads.
Space Transports
Clark Lindsey has a big round up of all that’s going on these days. We are in exciting times, other than SLS/Orion.
Walter Williams
RIP. Thomas Sowell remembers him.
And here is his last column.
[Late-morning update]
More at Battleswarm blog.
Climategate
I still prefer “Climaquiddick.”
Orion
The latest on the fiasco.
What a waste of money both of these programs are, and always have been.