I’m still trying to put what happened yesterday into historical perspective, but I think it will be one of the top five events of the first sixty years of space history. I wish we’d done it decades ago.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Farenheit 451
Like Atlas Shrugged, it was written as a cautionary tale, but the Left views it as an instruction manual. And don’t call them liberal. That’s an insult to actual liberals (like me).
Saving Climate Science From Itself
This was a useful recommendation to come out of Wednesday’s hearing. We use red teams for proposals; why not for science, especially considering that fewer than one percent of published papers actually follow the scientific method?
Inspector Obama
…and the Red Panther. “The incompetence of the Obama administration was only exceeded by its arrogance…”
Yup.
The Harsh Reality Of The Senate Launch System
Bob Zimmmerman has a piece at The National Interest:
So, what should President Trump do? Does he continue to fund Ares/SLS/Orion, which is taking almost TWO DECADES and more than forty billion dollars to design, build, and fly a SINGLE manned capsule, or does he instead shut it down and have NASA buy the products it needs to explore the solar system from multiple competing private companies?
I know what I would do.
So do I.
The “Mainstream” Media And Guns
Why is it impossible for them to be honest about them?
Because if they were, it would disrupt the narrative.
Trump’s Climate EO
Ths hysteria on this from the Left has been some combination of frightening and hilarious.
"Trump’s Executive Order Threatens to Wreck Earth as a Livable Planet for Humans" https://t.co/0NrN1CDdMo
— hockey schtick (@hockeyschtick1) March 29, 2017
But in fact, as Roy Spencer points out, the (illegal) “Clean Power Plan” was literally going to increase poverty and kill people, while almost certainly having no discernible effect on climate.
Space Weather
New data that could provide warning of catastrophic solar storms. We need this both in space and on earth. I worry much more about the sun acting up than I do CO2.
Medical “Ethics”
You know my response to someone who tells me I have a “duty to die” at any age, let alone at 75? It’s two words. The first one starts with “F.”
Staffing The Trump Administration
It’s going very slowly. Why does Koskinen still have his job?