It’s getting worse, not better, with no sign of change in sight unless the voters vote differently.
[Sunday update]
Fully oligarchic luxury Californication.
And visualizing San Francisco’s vacant office space.
[Bumped]
Category Archives: Economics
What Does Branson’s Flight Mean?
I have a post up over at SpaceTech Analytics.
[Saturday-morning update]
More thoughts over at The Verge.
Branson’s Flight
Some reflections from Bob Zimmerman.
[Update a while later]
Here‘s Eric Berger’s take on the significance.
This picture doesn’t flatter her. She’s quite stunning in person.
We Demand A Collectivist Space Program
An ignorant rant against the “billionaire space race.”
[Update a while later]
As would be expected, Alan Boyle has a more intelligent take on the “race.”
SLS BS
It’s like these people are living in an alternate reality. No sane program manager is going to want to use SLS. And a billion dollars a flight? That might be the marginal cost, but it’s not the average.
[Saturday-morning update]
More thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
Asteroid Mining
A nice essay by Martin Elvis.
Turning Seawater Into Freshwater
This will be great if it’s scalable.
Chaos
When it is in the interest of the state, the state will create more.
Space Solar Power
This seems pretty ambitious on China’s part.
The Lockdowns
As some of us predicted, they were probably the greatest public-health mistake in human history.