…is starting beta testing. It’s a little pricey, at least initially, but it could be a huge boon for the boondocks.
Category Archives: Economics
Glenn Reynold’s New Space Book
Laura Montgomery reviews it. He gave me a draft when he was writing it, on which I provided some comments.
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
This looks promising.
My Hillsdale Panel Discussion
I just got an email from a friend who saw it on line, so I went and looked it up. Here it is.
I was originally supposed to lead off, but the moderator rearranged things so I ended up batting clean up, and it ended up well. Sercel told me that he was going to talk about some of the things that I did, but dropped them in the interest of time, so all our talks ended up being complementary. A lot of the audience told me later that the panel discussion (the first time space had ever been a topic at this event) “blew their minds.” It was the first time I’d ever met General Kwast, but he has been talking up my book to many people.
The Student-Loan Problem
A modest proposal: Make the universities pay.
They’ve gotten away with this madness for far too long.
[Afternoon update]
Did you know about the ignorance of college students?
The Lockdowns
Were not just immensely destructive to human capital, but probably ineffective.
[Update a couple minutes later]
A child psychologist on the devastating impacts to young children of the pandemic response.
The Lockdowns
…may have had little effect on the spread of the virus.
This was shooting ourselves in the foot, on full auto.
Escape From 2020
If it makes you feel any better, next year may be worse.
Perrow writes about how the failure of a complex, highly-coupled system can be catastrophic. I used his book, Normal Accidents, as a source for my book.
Launch-Cost Bleg
I’m giving a talk on the economics of spaceflight on Friday in Omaha. Does anyone have a chart showing the cost per flight as a function of flight rate for both expendables and reusables? Doesn’t need to have citable numbers in it, just looking for something conceptual.
Recycling Programs
With city budgets declining, it’s time to rethink them.
It’s time to rethink lots of things, but we don’t usually do it until under duress. The virus has been helpful in that regard in many cases.