Bob Zimmmerman has a piece at The National Interest:
So, what should President Trump do? Does he continue to fund Ares/SLS/Orion, which is taking almost TWO DECADES and more than forty billion dollars to design, build, and fly a SINGLE manned capsule, or does he instead shut it down and have NASA buy the products it needs to explore the solar system from multiple competing private companies?
I know what I would do.
So do I.
..continues its slow self destruction:
Why does Twitter hate us? Why does Twitter hate America? Why does Twitter hate itself?
Good questions.
[Update a few minutes later]
Ockham's razor suggests that the problem being solved by the new @-reply "feature" is that there are too many people using twitter
— Lew (@LewSOS) March 30, 2017
Why is it impossible for them to be honest about them?
Because if they were, it would disrupt the narrative.
Ths hysteria on this from the Left has been some combination of frightening and hilarious.
"Trump’s Executive Order Threatens to Wreck Earth as a Livable Planet for Humans" https://t.co/0NrN1CDdMo
— hockey schtick (@hockeyschtick1) March 29, 2017
But in fact, as Roy Spencer points out, the (illegal) “Clean Power Plan” was literally going to increase poverty and kill people, while almost certainly having no discernible effect on climate.
New data that could provide warning of catastrophic solar storms. We need this both in space and on earth. I worry much more about the sun acting up than I do CO2.
The science is settled! They’re nice. Well, ours generally is. She’s asleep on my lap right now. But there are mean ones.
…is complete. This will be a big week for SpaceX if they get the launch off successfully on Thursday.
[Update a few minutes later]
Meanwhile, while SpaceX is driving down launch costs, a new report is out on the insane program costs of SLS/Orion.
[Update on Wednesday afternoon]
Bob Zimmerman responds to media criticism of his report.
SLS isn't just programmatically insane, it's fractally so. It's completely nuts at whatever scale you look at it. https://t.co/PVYpsG3Tj7
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 29, 2017
[Bumped]
OK, this is weird. I guess it would work, but it would take up a lot of room, and it would be restricted to aircraft of a certain takeoff and landing speed, due to the fixed bank of it. Unless the bank angle could be varied for different aircraft.
You know my response to someone who tells me I have a “duty to die” at any age, let alone at 75? It’s two words. The first one starts with “F.”