Just heard via Dennis Wingo that my former colleague at Rockwell has died. He, Bob Waldron and I were working lunar ISRU in the early 90s, during the SEI scare. Condolences to his other friends and family. We’re losing a lot of visionary people, just as we’re finally on the verge of breaking out.
Here is an interview with Ed on lunar settlements.
The latest from Bob Zimmerman.
I don’t know where to start with this ignorant burning of a field of strawmen.
I’m going to look into this, despite the fact that it’s “smart.” I hate things that are smart. My A/C does not need to talk to the cloud. It would be nice if they’d make a dumb one that was cheaper, but probably smarts don’t cost much.
I just saw this tweet:
It reminded me of this old post I wrote in the early aughts. Here is the original, with comments at the time.
There may be a lot more of it than we thought. And we were already thinking there’s quite a bit.
I’d been wondering about this. We just bought one (small one, for a hundred bucks at Fry’s), and we certainly have no plans for it to go out of line of sight, or the neighborhood, but I need to look up whether it needs to be registered, legally.
We continue to lose the giants of that generation.
[Update Tuesday morning]
Heh. “Perhaps the New York Times’ obit for Kraft was already written, as it curiously fails to explore the seething hotbed of sexism and white supremacy that was the early NASA, according to the latest reporting by the New York Times.“
[Update a few minutes later]
Eric Berger remembers an inspirational friend.
Per a commenter there, I’ve also been wondering if he had been hanging on to see the 50th anniversary, and then let go.
An interesting essay, but it has a few problems. First…
And they repeatedly use the phrase “lunar soil.” In fact we just update Evoloterra this weekend to fix this ourselves.
Finally, we have this comment, which seems gratuitous and almost a non sequitur in the context of this article:
What might it look like?
Still not clear to me that NASA will be the one to do it.