What matters is not who does it first, but who does it best, and why they’re doing it.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
From Social Liberalism
…to social control.
I disagree with the last graf, though. The left has never been about the liberation of human beings or, if it imagines it was, it has always had the opposite effect whenever it gains control.
[Update a few minutes later]
A reminder: There are no socialist success stories.
Starship Upgrades
Despite the failure to land so far, it looks like SpaceX is making progress more rapidly than anticipated.
[Afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman is writing the obituary for SLS. I hope he’s right.
The Election
…wasn’t “stolen,” but it was underhandedly tilted.
Senator SLS
…is (finally) retiring. Here are four potential people to replace him. Brooks is from Huntsville. He and Ross Aderholt have been the biggest proponents of the Big Monster Rocket in the House.
Another Dumb Space Article
Sigh.
No, there was never a Trump plan for sending anyone to Mars by 2024, and the FAA didn’t cancel the SpaceX test.
SN9 Update
A good article about the landing failure at Teslerati.
The High Frontier
The movie trailer has been released.
I personally know almost everyone in that trailer (you can see a young Eric Drexler on the extreme right of the MIT mass-driver team). I’m supposedly in the film (I was interviewed for it).
Deranged Space Barons Like Elon Musk
Jacobin mag wants to regulate him.
The Dig
We watched this movie the other night, and enjoyed it. I did find the love story extraneous, though.