This is pretty funny.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Not Just Higher Ed
Another of the silver linings of this is that it may result in a political environment for a massive reform of government schools.
Starship On The Moon
Bob Zubrin has a different idea.
Elon chose methane because he was thinking Mars, but absent finding significant deposits of lunar carbon, LOX/Hydrogen is probably a better propellant for lunar ops.
NASA’s “Comically Big Moon Rocket”
How it’s coming along. There’s nothing funny about the cost, though.
A Quieting Sun
Are we headed for a new little ice age? There is no scientific reason to think it won’t happen.
Cheap energy and free markets fuel wealth creation. Fossil fuels are the cheapest form of energy currently, for both electricity and transportation.
A Single-Atom Transistor?
This is quite the breakthrough, but the people doing it are engineers, not “scientists.”
Biden And China
Electing him would cede the world to it.
It certainly appears that way. As the man said, Biden has been wrong on almost every foreign-policy issue for decades.
[Friday-morning update]
He’s not the best politician that money can buy, but he’s what they have.
[Bumped]
The Artemis Accords
OK, it’s simply some high-level, unobjectionable principles (other than to Moon Agreement fans), but seems like a long way from draft agreements. And why only bilateral? I guess they want to work off the framework of the ISS agreements. The devil, of course, will lie in the details.
Regulations
We need to continue to cut the red tape, for an economic recovery.
Mark Kelly, Worldview, And China
A long history. I hadn’t realized the degree to which Kelly and China were involved.
I wonder how this will affect the race? McSally is not a great campaigner, but this might help her hang on to the seat.