The transcript has been released. Among other things, he doesn’t like electric scooters.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Soyuz Failure
It seems to me that the failure of a single sensor shouldn’t cause a hard launch abort.
My Latest Space-Policy Piece
…has gone live on line. The issue has the theme of a space renaissance, also containing a very technical article by Bob Zubrin on Moon Direct, and a piece by Micah Meadowcroft on why space settlers may be doomed to disappointment.
Web 3.0
Hopefully a return to the idea of Web 1.0, with better tech,
Type 2 Diabetes
Potentially wonderful news on that front. I do think, though, that diet is underutilized in fighting it, and that much of it has been caused by scientifically terrible, bordering on criminal, nutrition advice for decades.
Hardening Your Place Of Worship
Four things you can do right now. Plus, “this Jewish boy is buying a gun.”
It’s really the only solution. The Left’s position on guns is both utopian and irrationally inconsistent. They simultaneously insist that Trump is Hitler, but that only Der Staat should have arms.
[Update a few minutes later]
Dad with a gun shoots down a masked gunman at a McDonald’s full of kids. That’s ultimately the only way it can work in a free country. And with more of this, attempts at mass murder would be more discouraged. “Gun-free zones” are nothing but an open invitation to these people.
Light Blogging
I am in the last throes of getting the house on the market. Tomorrow is my last day in Florida (I hope), at least in terms of getting this house sold (I will come back for launches, but if I never go to south Florida again, I will have no regrets). Tomorrow night we fly to Denver, and back to LA on Tuesday. Then after a couple days of catching up at home I’m in Santa Monica for the Space Settlement Summit on Friday and Saturday, then on a plane to DC all week for COMSTAC and satellite servicing conference. So, probably still not a lot of blogging.
Things may be more lively after I get back from DC for a couple weeks, but then I’m off to Europe for a couple weeks. Anyway, life is not boring.
{Update late evening]
What the hell, let’s make this an open thread. Just be good.
Doubling Lifespan
OK, it’s nematodes, but still.
Space Force
Pence is talking about it today at an event sponsored by the WaPo. Here’s a description of the Pentagon’s current plans.
An Intact Shipwreck
The world’s oldest, found deep in the Black Sea.
Have to say, whatever else you think about the Grauniad, they have great science articles.