In response to this:
The @NASA_SLS boosters burn 1.5M pounds of propellant in 2 minutes – an average 6.25 tons of propellant every second! #FactFriday
— Explore Deep Space (@XploreDeepSpace) July 11, 2014
I tweeted this:
If total ascent burn time's ten minutes, @NASA_SLS burns about $10M taxpayer dollars per second. @XploreDeepSpace
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) July 11, 2014
It entered 35 years ago today.
I’ve received the following information:
Services for our dear friend Bill Gaubatz will be held Saturday, July 19 at 2 pm at St Peter’s by the Sea Presbyterian Church in Rancho Palos Verdes. There will be a reception immediately following at the church.
The church address is:
6410 Palos Verdes Drive South
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
I’ll certainly be attending.
How SpaceX is shaking it up.
That’s what disruption looks like.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Not to mention what’s happening to ULA.
How we could have better spent the money spent on the F-35.
The SLS costs are BS, though. If you really wanted to colonize the moon, you could actually get a lot more bang for the buck than this.
It looks like Taber and Jane haven’t given up yet. But they need to give up the SLS fantasy.
I haven’t perused this article yet, but Japan has always taken the concept more seriously than we have (well, except briefly in the late seventies).
Nothing has changed in four years, except the name of the rocket.
…is scientists:
Before I go on, I should note that my objection to Professor Weinberg’s essay is the stupidity and crudeness of its argument; I largely agree with his position about funding ambitious science. In fact, it is because I agree with his position on Big Science that the rest of his essay vexes me. His good point is wrapped in a wrongheaded and poisonous generality; it’s like serving an ice-cream sundae in a bowl shaped like Andrew Cuomo’s face.
Note also Weinberg’s ignorant bashing of ISS. It’s so funny that he thinks it’s about science.
Also read Charles W. Cooke’s appropriately pitiless (as Kevin says) take down of the Neil deGrasse Tyson cult. [Note, it’s behind a paywall]