I wonder if this, combined with recent problems with their space systems, are an indication of a much deeper systemic rot?
Category Archives: Technology and Society
High-Speed Rail
Unlike the California plan, this might make sense. No serious mountains between Dallas and Houston.
Scott Pruitt And The Environment
Yes, this is an argument about what constitutes “pollution” and how best to deal with it, not whether or not we are indifferent to it. But of course, if the Left had no strawman arguments, they’d have no arguments at all.
The Space Shuttle
Amy Shira Teitel explains why she’s not a fan:
“I Heard Them Scream ‘Get Me Out Of Here.'”
“…then there was silence from the pad.”
Eric Berger writes about Apollo 1, on the fiftieth anniversary. I remember it, the day before my birthday. It was a huge wake-up call for the Apollo program, which ultimately resulted in beating the Soviets in the space race less than two years later, with Apollo 8.
Site Problems
We had a corrupt data base that was confusing MySQL, but things should be fixed now.
Anti-Biotic Resistance
Reversing it with a single molecule.
Faster, please. I don’t want to go back to the early 20th century.
SpaceX’s Next Launch
…won’t have sufficient performance margin to bring the first stage back. Though I’m not sure what she means by “Heavy satellites need a lot of extra speed at liftoff.”
Greg Autry
…is one of the first political appointees to NASA. That’s good news, I think. He knows what a programmatic disaster SLS is.
[Monday-morning update]
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman, who agrees that it’s potentially bad news for SLS/Orion (i.e., good news for people who want to actually accomplish things in space with NASA funding).
As he notes, it’s probably also bad news for Gavin Schmidt and GISS.
The “Hottest Year On Record”
I was very gratified to see that all of the climate BS on the White House web site is now gone.
[Update a few minutes later]
Obama did leave one more last-minute turd in the punch bowl; he outlawed three-way bulbs. That should be one of the first things that Trump undoes. In fact, Congress should repeal that idiotic law.