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Category Archives: Technology and Society
Ending Apolloism
I’ve posted an update on my SLS Roadblock project, for those interested. The document itself can be found here. I’ll be interested in feedback.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Related: Growing a spacecraft for artificial gravity.
Half a million dollars. 0.03% of what we’re spending annually on SLS/Orion.
[Tuesday-morning update]
I’ve fixed a few problems with the document, including some missing figures, so you might want to refresh or download again.
Colonizing The Solar System
The five most livable places (aside from earth). They’ll all take a lot of tech, though. Of course, if you build your own, you can put them wherever you want.
Spot Mini
Boston Dynamics’ robotic dogs are getting better. Nice to see that no one kicked them this time.
The Journey To Nowhere
Reading my Twitter feed this morning, with all the excited tweets from the NASA Social in Utah over “the most powerful rocket EVAR” has been quite depressing. It’s sad that people don’t understand what a load of bull they’re being fed.
And if it ever flies, it will be burning millions of taxpayer dollars per second. https://t.co/FyC80d3vEq
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) June 27, 2016
In other news, Chrysler will be testing the world's largest buggy whip at their proving grounds in Chelsea. https://t.co/2FMoRSr1sl
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) June 27, 2016
[Update a while later]
Here’s an example of stenographing of NASA propaganda:
#ProTip: No, they don't. They're irrelevant to getting to Mars. https://t.co/KHWP4FOqp6
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) June 27, 2016
#ProTip: "Lifting power" (whatever the hell that is) isn't measured in metric tons. https://t.co/KHWP4FOqp6
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) June 27, 2016
Hillary’s Email Crimes
The coming constitutional crisis:
How the FBI can look at all this and not recommend prosecution of someone for something in EmailGate strains the imagination. Yet President Obama has clearly signaled that it’s all no big deal. Director James Comey has a tough job before him when he takes the FBI’s official recommendations regarding EmailGate to Attorney General Lynch for action, probably sometime this summer. Since Comey is now under a cloud over the FBI’s embarrassing mishandling of Omar Mateen, the Orlando jihadist mass murderer, perhaps his resignation over that matter would be welcome in the White House, which then could find a new director more willing to bend to Obama’s wishes.
Make no mistake, there are more than a few senior intelligence officials in Washington, DC, who are livid about Hillary Clinton’s willful disregard of clearly defined laws on the handling of classified information. Her misconduct endangered sensitive intelligence programs—and lives. Even if Comey is a sacrificial lamb here, there are high-ranking spies who are perfectly willing to leak the sordid details of EmailGate to the media if the president pulls a Dick Nixon and tries to subvert our Constitution to protect himself and his designated successor.
And in the unlikely event that nobody in our nation’s capital is willing to go public with exactly what Hillary Clinton did, it now seems the Russians may do so. It’s highly plausible that Russian intelligence services, among others, have many of Clinton’s emails, perhaps all of them, given how slipshod her security arrangements were.
If Comey does resign, the Senate shouldn’t approve anyone that Obama nominates to replace him.
Space And The Right To Self Defense
The Executive Summary of a recent report by the Hudson Institute. The full report can be found here.
System Down
The server on which this blog runs is being physically moved overnight, so if there’s no site, that’s why.
[Saturday-morning update]
As you can see, the move seems to have been successful.
My Latest Book Review
Roger Launius previously reviewed it at Quest, but he has a slightly different take at his blog, which he also posted at Amazon. I’m not unhappy with a four-star review, but I’m always interested in an explanation of why it’s not five, for future reference.
Trump Bashes Hillary
And Ben Shapiro applauds.
The only good thing about Trump as a candidate is that he’s not afraid to go after the media’s pet incompetent criminal.