Lileks watched it.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
FAA-AST
They’ve completed their reorganization to ramp up launch activity. But I thought they were going to be restored to their own office reporting to the SecDOT? Is that not happening?
COBOL
Want to make money? Brush up on it, or learn it.
Boeing
Will it still be able to charge a premium for its vaunted “spaceflight expertise”?
Boeing had been riding on its laurels for too long a time. As I noted in the book, companies don’t have experience; people do. With Gerst gone, there’s a new sheriff in town at NASA.
Regulations, Post-Virus
The burden of proof should be on those who want to reimpose them.
Restoration
This is a nice story amidst the other news: Returning one of the last B-17s to flight.
Remdesivir
…seems to be at least somewhat effective.
If we can find what works for treatment, and only isolate the most vulnerable, that’s the best path forward to re-open the economy in the absence of a vaccine.
[Update a while later]
Time to dump epidemic models? All models are wrong, some are useful, but it’s not clear that these have been, though they’ve certainly been used to implement policies that a lot of people wanted to implement before the pandemic.
[Bumped]
Smooth Move, CDC
The country’s in the very best of hands.
You’d have to be pretty Trump deranged to blame this on Trump.
How To Get The Economy Back In Gear
No, it’s not going to be easy. Some things will be changed permanently.
[Update at noon]
Six things we’ve learned so far. The sixth is probably the most important. People are going to try to take advantage of this to do what they’ve always wanted to do.
Sunlight And High Humidity
I wonder if this means that we could sterilize with UV lamps?