Now comes the fun part.
I’m writing a piece similar to this for The New Atlantis. It’s hard for people who are still thinking in Apollo mode to get their head around just how revolutionary this is.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Look Out Below
First they loose a pandemic on us, and now the Chinese may be about to drop a used rocket on us.
Melinda Gates
It’s a Covid miracle!
Space Force
Matthew Jenkins writes that it needs better PR.
The Origin Of Covid
Following the clues.
If I had to bet, my money would be on it being created in the lab. The fact that those who consider themselves my intellectual betters oppose this theory merely supports it all the more.
[Update a few minutes later]
A classified study says that it could have originated in the lab.
You don’t say.
Amazing Illusion
Gwynne Shotwell
[Update a few minutes later]
Elon shows the way: ” The promotional video, captured and shared on the Chinese social network Weibo, shows two different concepts for achieving suborbital passenger flights about two decades from now. What is interesting about the video (which I’ve mirrored on YouTube) is that the first concept looks strikingly like SpaceX’s Starship vehicle. It shows a large vehicle capable of vertical takeoff and vertical landing. “
You don’t say.
You Don’t Say
Elon says that a bunch of people will die going to Mars.
I don’t know if he’s read it, but I gave him a copy of the book (via Gwynne) when it came out.
A Multi-Cultural Approach To Space
This op-ed seems a little aerie faerie to me, and I’m not sure what exactly he’s proposing, but someone should tell him that space is not the common heritage of mankind.
The “Green New Deal”
…will impoverish America.
Why yes, yes it would.