Today is the anniversary of the first spaceflight of SpaceShipOne. At the time, everyone expected its successor to be flying passengers before the decade was out. As we now know, that was over-optimistic, for a variety of reasons. But here are my blog posts from the event at the time.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Second Amendment In DC
In the wake of last week’s multiple-assassination attempt, a Congressman wants to do something common sense: Extend civil rights to the District. I’m pretty sure that DC’s current gun laws remain in violation of it. In fact, I wonder if a federal law requiring reciprocity across state lines would pass Constitutional muster?
Cats
How they domesticated humans thousands of years ago.
[Update a few minutes later]
Another take on the same subject.
The #JourneyToMars
…seems to be pretty much dead.
#JourneyToMars was never alive.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) June 20, 2017
The Y2K Bug
I think it was Reagan who said there was no eternal life, except for a govenment program. The Trump administration is apparently making America great again by ending work on fixing something that didn’t happen seventeen years ago.
Cancer Metastasis
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have figured out how to slow it, with existing approved drugs.
Faster, please.
Elon And Mars
He’s published his plan.
I haven’t read it yet, but then, I don’t care much about Mars.
BMI
We could save lives by getting rid of it.
Like calorie counting, low fat, and cholesterol, BMI is junks science.
Ending Hip And Knee Replacements
…by 3-D printing cartilage in place.
Faster, please.
A Wet Workshop
Almost half a century after Skylab, private companies are proposing to outfit a propellant tank on orbit.
Key issue is getting life support going in it quickly, so they don't have to work in suits to outfit it. https://t.co/kZWHojKknt
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) June 12, 2017