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Category Archives: Technology and Society
Matt Isakowitz
This is a huge loss to the space community. No word (yet) on how he died, but he was only twenty-nine or thirty years old. Some of us knew him since he was a kid. And my deepest condolences to Steve and his family. This has to be shattering to them.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Future leaders in space has set up a memorial fund. But I wonder if they have permission from the family?
[Update a few minutes later]
FWIW…
We've set up a fund in memory of Matthew Isakowitz at https://t.co/UfjyAG5ebq & are working with his family to inspire the next generation https://t.co/ZHK1XiEEzs
— Clay Mowry (@ClayMowry) May 30, 2017
The Hayabusa Effect
…is real.
When I was a kid, I wanted a really fast car, and it would still be fun, but I’m not willing to put a lot of effort into getting one.
Thoughts On What’s Happening In Space
From me, in a podcast with Anthony Colangelo.
Light Posting
Haven’t been posting much because I’ve been at the Space Tech Expo in Pasadena all week. I’ll be back tomorrow. I have been tweeting, though.
The Outer Space Treaty
Ted Cruz is having a hearing on it tomorrow. Mark Sundahl warns against outright withdrawal, or ignoring the positive aspects of it.
I’m probably going to be at the Space Tech Expo in Pasadena, so I don’t know if I’ll be able to stream it.
Evolution
It was a series of energy revolutions. Yes, though it’s an interesting new formulation.
Old Engines
Teaching them new tricks.
Between tech advances like this, and lower fuel costs from fracking and the end of OPEC, I think we’re going to get a lot more mileage out of internal combustion, Al Gore’s mindless hysteria aside.
The Uncertainty Monster
Thoughts from Judith Curry on the current state of knowledge in climate. The warm mongers never consider the possibility that their proposed cures may in fact be worse than the disease. I personally think it’s nuts to consider climate a greater threat to humanity than poverty, and particularly energy poverty. But then, many of them don’t really care about humanity, or consider humanity a problem in and of itself.
[Update a few minutes later]
A new paper on the epistemological status of general circulation models.
California
The state government and governor persist in their fiscal, environmental and regulatory insanity.