The sun is extremely quiet. It will be interesting to see what the effects are.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
“Gun-Free” Zones
People in charge of them should be made personally liable.
Makes sense to me. If you’re going to deprive someone of their right to self defense, it should be your responsibility to make it actually safe, not just put up a sign.
China
How it “woke” America.
A Maoist Struggle Session
Over climate. At the University of Washington.
This should be a big story, or they won’t stop. Presumably, that department head would claim to be a climate scientist, but he’s not any kind of scientist.
Space-Policy Dilemma
It’s a personal one. I’m accepted to give a brief talk on space property rights at the IAC in three weeks. But media can’t give talks, and registration will be about $1500. Not sure I can justify that.
Elon Musk
I watched the webcast last night, but I was tired from building a fence, and then I had an early flight to DC this morning.
[Tuesday-afternoon update]
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on Elon’s design philosophy.
Mid-Air Refueling
…of drones, with flying swappable batteries.
Space Nuclear Reactors
I’m not sure this is as big a proliferation concern as some say, but I have no idea where they get this “20% of all launches have failures” thing. That’s not true in general, and its far from true for U.S. systems.
Elizabeth Warren
…and her anti-corporate fixation.
She reminds me of Woodrow Wilson, without the virulent racism.
The fact that Wall Street is saying that they won’t support her, and might even support Trump, is amusing in the context of the popular myth that the rich are Republicans.
