Thoughts from Bob Zubrin.
“We are not threatened by there being too many people. We are threatened by people who think there are too many people.”
Yes.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Biden’s Bagram Blunder
…surpasses Gettysburg and Little Bighorn.
Well, yes.
Environmental Red Tape
Keep it out of outer space.
Room-Temperature Superconductors
Unfortunately, there’s a catch.
Thanks, Facebook!
…for helping the Taliban overrun Afghanistan. And thanks to our brilliant intelligence community that did nothing to stop it.
The IPCC’s Attribution Methodology
…is fundamentally flawed.
The Latest Salvo Against Innovation
The usual suspects want to end the learning period for commercial spaceflight.
As George points out, it is not obvious that making people wear pressure suits doesn’t add more hazards than it reduces. We don’t make everyone on an airliner wear a parachute. We minimize the possibility that they’ll need one. Just design to vehicle to have a low probability of unexpectedly depressurizing. We know how to do this much better today than we did in the sixties.
To Declassify
…or not to declassify? That is the question. An interesting article on space weapons and deterrence.
English As A Second Language
This video about the competition between SpaceX and Blue Origin is…interesting. The music is a nice touch.
Seventeen Years later
It’s interesting to read this essay that I wrote on space policy just after the first flight of SpaceShipOne and see how it’s held up. Things haven’t happened as quickly as I had hoped, and the government policy has remained awful with respect to NASA human spaceflight, but I think we’re finally on the verge of seeing things happen.