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Category Archives: Technology and Society
Throwing Shade At Branson From Bezos
I wonder how much the additional twenty kilometers will be worth in the market? Jonathan McDowell makes a pretty good case that the line actually should be eighty kilometers. Von Karman never declared it to be a hundred.
The Opioid Epidemic
Strange, because I don’t personally know anyone who’s been affected (that I know of).
SpaceShipTwo
Their launch window opened this morning at 7 AM. I’d thought about driving up, but it’s going to be pretty cold up there, and I didn’t think the weather would cooperate. It did turn out that they scrubbed. I think Friday’s the most likely day now, because another storm is coming through tonight and tomorrow.
Your Fifteen Minutes Of Hate
From recent experience, Nancy Rommelmann has a guide to surviving it.
NASA’s “Space” Program
It will be a decade and a half, and $50B, with little spaceflight to show for it.
Europe And Its Space Race
Will SpaceX shut it out?
Probably. Not that he could really do anything about it, but I warned Clay Mowry years ago that Ariane 6 would be obsolete before it flew. Which is probably why he went to Blue Origin.
Protecting Human Heritage On The Moon
An interesting piece by Michelle Hanlon. This is a corollary with space property right. If some places are off limits, it implies that most others are not.
Extinction Rebellion
Space Solar Power
I wonder how serious this Chinese plan is? It looks like a traditional GEO concept. They have an advantage over us for this, in that they won’t have envirowackos to stop them.