An interesting overview, but I am aware of no serious plans for Virgin Galactic to get tourists to orbit any time, let alone in the early 2020s. Only Blue Origin and SpaceX offer that potential right now. https://t.co/Sew1biT1z3
And they repeatedly use the phrase “lunar soil.” In fact we just update Evoloterra this weekend to fix this ourselves.
There is no such thing as lunar "soil." Soil has an ecosystem and fertilizer needed to grow things. At some point, we will make soil out of the regolith, but it's not there naturally.
Finally, we have this comment, which seems gratuitous and almost a non sequitur in the context of this article:
"The planet is in the midst of a climate crisis the likes of which we have never seen…"
Oh, please. Such hyperbole.
Go tell it to the folks who had to live through effing glacial advances with neolithic technology. Or even those who ice skated on the Thames in the LIA. https://t.co/rw8vMJW4ze
As the Democrat operatives with bylines were wont to say about Trump for months, the “walls are closing in” on him. I hope that the Horowitz report is worth the wait. It was supposed to have been out by now, but Sperry is now saying September.
I almost hit a guy in my neighborhood this week driving Patricia to the bus stop. I was in a four-way stop intersection, about to pull out, when I catch him coming from the left out of the corner of my eye. He didn’t even slow down for the stop sign, let alone stop. It would have been Darwinian if I’d hit him, but I’d still feel terrible.
Thoughts on identity politics versus reductionist politics.
As someone who is often called a racist because I disagree about a policy issue, I am enjoying the hell out of Nancy having the race card pulled on her.
I don’t know whether to be amused or appalled at the degree to which the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are trying to simultaneously hide all of the Democrat/Clinton connections (including Wikipedia), while trying to pin it on Trump.