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The Socialist Temptation

February 11, 2020 Rand Simberg 4 Comments

Last time I was in DC, a couple weeks ago, I tried to have lunch with Iain Murray, but it turned out that he wasn’t downtown, but was at home writing a forthcoming book.

It seems a little spendy, though, if you want to get young people to read it (which should be the goal). Maybe they’ll also have an ebook.

[Update a while later]

If you click here, you’ll tell the publisher that you’d like to see a Kindle edition.

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Satellite Internet And Astronomy

February 6, 2020 Rand Simberg 10 Comments

A good overview of the problem, from Marina Koren.

Good article, but worth noting that we shouldn't be looking for earth impactors from earth. We need sentinels in the inner solar system looking out.
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) February 6, 2020

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Upscaling

February 5, 2020 Rand Simberg 3 Comments

…a 125-year-old film.

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Rush Limbaugh

February 3, 2020 Rand Simberg 20 Comments

Best wishes in his fight with this. I wonder if those years of smoking finally caught up with him, even though he quit?

[Update Tuesday morning]

Sort of related: Scientists accidentally discover a form of immune cells that can kill most cancers. Faster, please.

[Tuesday-morning update]

Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.

[Wednesday-morning update]

Kurt Schlichter: What Rush Limbaugh means to us, and me.

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A Purpose-Driven Space Program

February 3, 2020 Rand Simberg 11 Comments

Bob Zubrin’s take on the stagnation in NASA human spaceflight.

As I’ve often said, if we don’t know why we’re doing something, it’s not possible to come up with a sensible way to do it.

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The Coastal States

February 1, 2020 Rand Simberg 4 Comments

…are in the fight of their lives.

I hope, at some point soon, there will be a backlash in California. I don’t want to have to leave to be free.

BTW, I was in DC all week, but back now.

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Kobe Bryant

January 26, 2020 Rand Simberg 10 Comments

I’m not a basketball fan, so while it’s a very sad for his family, I’m having trouble getting worked up about it. But judging by what I was hearing on talk radio while running errands, LA is gutted.

Sounds like it was controlled flight into terrain in IFR conditions. It’s been a cloudy/foggy day. That area has a lot of steep hillsides that can come up at you quickly if visibility is bad. Apparently he’d been using choppers for commuting for years, and it finally caught up with him.

[Update a while later]

Here‘s the latest from PJMedia.

Guy in Home Depot told me he’d heard that all of his daughters were aboard, but fortunately, only one was. He left a wife and four others.