The state has killed its new six-speed manual, because it’s “too loud.”
Category Archives: Technology and Society
An ELEO Thought Experiment
Imagine that you could have 150,000 tons of cargo (or people) delivered to equatorial LEO annually, at $60/lbm. What would you do with it? What are the markets? We’re talking on the order of $5B/year.
[Update late afternoon]
Note that that’s less than a quarter of the NASA budget…
For that money, we could have 150,000 tons of material/people in orbit, or pay for another year of SLS/Orion.
[Friday-morning update]
Thanks to a comment, I went and rechecked, and found an error in the spreadsheet. The cost is more like $20/lbm.
Easy To Vote
We’re currently a long way from that. And surprise, surprise, surprise.
The Killing Of Kern County
The economic lunacy and destruction by California’s Democrats continues apace.
Red Tape
The orbital Starship attempt probably won’t happen in July.
Net Zero
The West’s suicide note.
Jim Treacher
…has started a substack account. If you enjoy reading his stuff enough, subscribe.
Zhurong
…has been located on Mars, by the MRO.
Asteroids
Martin Elvis has what looks to be an interesting new book out.