Category Archives: Technology and Society

Business, Economics, Law, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Space, Technology and Society

Property Rights On Mars

August 26, 2018 Rand Simberg 5 Comments

I don’t know if it will be webcast, but I’m going to be giving a talk tomorrow morning in Pasadena, as part of the final plenary of the Mars Society meeting.

[Update Sunday afternoon]

I think the talk went OK. The crowd was smaller than I expected; I think that the Mars conference in DC has pulled a lot of the audience that Bob used to get for his Mars Society meetings. I called people in the audience “mutant weirdos,” and made a lawyer joke.

[Bumped]

Business, Space, Technology and Society

Tesla And Elon

August 25, 2018 Rand Simberg 2 Comments

Time to let go of the reins?

He has Gwynne to run SpaceX for him, but there doesn’t seem to be anyone like that at Tesla. And his behavior has been quite erratic of late.

Business, Economics, Space, Technology and Society

Rocket Report

August 25, 2018 Rand Simberg

Eric Berger has this week’s round up.

I will say that I’ve never been very concerned about competition from China, but now that they’ve allowed commercial companies to engage, we may start to see a lot of innovation there.

Business, Economics, Science And Society, Space, Technology and Society

Lunar Water Ice

August 25, 2018 Rand Simberg 1 Comment

An interview with Phil Metzger, including the most recent findings, on how to utilize it.

Culinary, Health, Media Criticism, Science And Society, Technology and Society

Deep-Fried Fair Food

August 24, 2018 Rand Simberg

A lot of nutrition mythology in this.

No, you won’t get a coronary from eating fried food, or if you do, it’s not because it’s fried, or has saturated fat. Probably the least unhealthy of these is the fried cheesecake, because at least it has additional sat fat in it, along with protein. The others are basically fried sugar and flour. And at least adding the fat mediates to some degree. Also, counting calories is stupid.