Has a new job at NASA, to ensure the ability to utilize space resources. I talked to him about this in DC last month, and sent him a copy of my IAC paper.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Space Settlement Summit
I’m attending this two-day event at Caltech, so posting will be light to non-existent.
(Saturday-evening update)
The final afternoon of the conference, the right side of my lower back started to hurt. It got progressively worse, to the point that I went to a sports doctor yesterday, who gave me a shot in the ass, Vicodin and steroids, and a back brace, and I had an MRI this morning, whose results I won’t get until Friday.
Bottom line: I’m trying to get well enough to travel to Houston Tuesday, but posting will continue to be light.
“Equity” and “Diversity”
Why we should reject them as values.
Certainly they should come in a distant last to liberty.
Support For NASA
Both parties support it, for different reasons.
Climate Models Versus Observations
A 2019 update.
TL;DR: They continue to run hot.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Climate utopias and engineering reality.
[Update a few minutes later]
How to trigger a global recession overnight? Ban fracking.
[Late-morning update]
Judith Curry reflects on “Climategate,” a decade later. Hard to believe it’s really been that long.
The Limits Of Bandwidth
An interesting Twitter thread by Phil Metzger.
Rationality
How to be rational about it.
Unsustainable California
What can’t go on, will eventually come to a stop.
I think the only question is how it will play out.
[Update at noon]
Mark Pulliam is voting (again) with his feet.
[Update a few minutes later]
Boise residents: “Go back to California.”
Pricing Health-Care Services
Any elective procedure should be transparently priced. That’s it’s not is one of the disasters of the current health-insurance situation.
Launch Costs
In light of the latest admissions, some thoughts from Wayne Hale.