Space Settlement Summit
I’m attending this two-day event at Caltech, so posting will be light to non-existent.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
“Equity” and “Diversity”
Why we should reject them as values.
Certainly they should come in a distant last to liberty.
Support For NASA
Both parties support it, for different reasons.
Climate Models Versus Observations
A 2019 update.
TL;DR: They continue to run hot.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Climate utopias and engineering reality.
[Update a few minutes later]
How to trigger a global recession overnight? Ban fracking.
[Late-morning update]
Judith Curry reflects on “Climategate,” a decade later. Hard to believe it’s really been that long.
The Limits Of Bandwidth
An interesting Twitter thread by Phil Metzger.
Rationality
How to be rational about it.
Unsustainable California
What can’t go on, will eventually come to a stop.
I think the only question is how it will play out.
[Update at noon]
Mark Pulliam is voting (again) with his feet.
[Update a few minutes later]
Boise residents: “Go back to California.”
Pricing Health-Care Services
Any elective procedure should be transparently priced. That’s it’s not is one of the disasters of the current health-insurance situation.
Launch Costs
In light of the latest admissions, some thoughts from Wayne Hale.
Age-Resistant Mice
…with hyperlong telomeres.
“These unprecedented results show that longer than normal telomeres in a given species are not harmful but quite the contrary: they have beneficial effects, such as increased longevity, delayed metabolic age and less cancer,” concludes the team.
The telomere theory has been around for decades, but we seem to be getting closer to actual implementation.