Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Lunar Lander Awards
Eric Berger has the story:
NASA is taking a two-pronged approach toward the Artemis program. The agency has a clear mandate from the White House to land humans on the Moon by 2024. This has been criticized by some as a “political” date, but supporters of the fast timeline say it has injected needed urgency into the program. At the same time, NASA also wants to avoid the pitfalls of the Apollo Program—which flew six missions to the Moon and then ended due to high costs—by designing Artemis to be sustainable for the long term.
Unfortunately, as long as NASA is forced to continue to use SLS, that’s an impossible goal. Speaking of which, they just awarded a contract to AJR for $100M/engine.
Plus, Eric has a story on the uncertainty of launch architectures.
[Monday-morning update]
OK, so it’s not a hundred million per engine. It’s $146M.
[Bumped]
The Masque Of Red Death
Thoughts from Lileks on web advertising, the history of miracle cures, and China.
Ventilators
Why is JPL building them?
On top of the point that they still have to be mass produced, we now have a surplus, and we’re finding out that in many cases we don’t need them (and may have been killing people with them).
[Update a few minutes later]
Related Twitter thread. Pronation seems to be more effective and safer than ventilators.
SLS
Hey, they’ve only been working on it for a decade. Of course it may have a leaky fuel tank.
Bursts Of Exercise
Doing it intermittently throughout the day may be able to undo the damage caused by sitting all day.
Don’t Force It
…get a bigger hammer.
From Sedentary To Cross Fit
“How I did it in one day.”
Well, started to do it.
Planet Of The Humans
A review of Michael Moore’s latest.
Falcon Heavy First
They’re going to attempt to land both side boosters at sea.