I’m down in San Diego attending the conference, and the setup is not particularly conducive to laptops or blogging.
Category Archives: Space
The STEM “Crisis”
“If there was really a STEM labor market crisis, you’d be seeing very different behaviors from companies,” notes Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in New York state. “You wouldn’t see companies cutting their retirement contributions, or hiring new workers and giving them worse benefits packages. Instead you would see signing bonuses, you’d see wage increases. You would see these companies really training their incumbent workers.”
“None of those things are observable,” Hira says. “In fact, they’re operating in the opposite way.”
And even if there was, the notion that NASA would help it is ludicrous. Particularly if anyone thinks it’s going to do so by building rockets to nowhere.
Space Radiation
Does it discriminate against women?
No, NASA’s arbitrary policies do. Let people accept their own risks.
Water On The Moon
An Anti-Satellite Weapon
Has China launched one?
Reusable Rockets
Megan Gannon has another article on this past weekend’s DC-X meeting in Alamagordo.
The Solar System
A cute video, featuring the sun destroying the earth. Time to pack up and find a new one — we only have half a billion years or so.
The Pioneer Anomaly
Is gravity not quite inverse R squared? That would be a pretty amazing result if it’s true.
The Delta Clipper Legacy
Pat Hynes writes about last weekend, and her own remembrance of the test flights.
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
A review of an old SF movie. From Lileks. With a bonus Avengers theme and Benny Goodman.