…is rebounding.
Which is profoundly disappointing to people who want us to freeze and starve in the dark with windmills and solar panels.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Rationalia
More thoughts from Kevin Williamson.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Another piece at New Scientist. It’s a terrible idea.
[Bumped]
Back To The Moon
I agree with Eliot Pulham, it shouldn’t be about destinations (though SLS/Orion aren’t much more useful for going back than they are for Mars).
[Update a while later]
Sort of related: John Holdren rewrites history, and Eric Berger sets him straight.
[Update mid-morning]
Here’s a nice editorial from the Orlando Sentinel about the hopeful future in space due to competition between billionaires.
Climate Research
I’d say it’s worse than useless; it’s actively societally harmful.
Gingrich
As I just noted on Twitter, if Trump picks him, I’d seriously consider voting for him, not least because he would be a vice president more visionary about space than any in history. More anon.
[Update a while later]
Related non-space thoughts on a Gingrich pick from Jonah Goldberg.
Encountering A Social-Justice Warrior
Military Jargon
An amusing people-on-the-street interview by Mary Roach. I knew four out of five.
I should do something like this to try to promote my book.
“Peak” Oil
The U.S’s oil reserves now larger than Saudi Arabia’s.
Huh. Like Glenn, I’m also old enough to remember when the Obama the Wise told us we couldn’t drill our way out of the energy situation. Reminder: Every resource is a renewable resource with sufficiently cheap energy.
Life Extension
It might be possible to live thirty years longer. I wonder to what degree treating diabetes with metformin will also extend life? I also think that people confuse cause and effect between aging and many of the “diseases of aging.”
I think there’s potential for much more than that. I don’t buy the notion that the body can’t be repaired indefinitely. It violates no laws of physics.
[Afternoon update]
The mystery of the Missing Link has been solved once again!
The Wolves Of Silicon Valley
Joel Kotkin and Victor Davis Hanson have both written about the California oligarchy, but this piece points out their cruel but self-righteous youth:
“There are literally shanty towns underneath most highway overpasses in the city,” says Martínez. “But that techie kid who goes and gets his $5 single-origin, cruelty-free pour-over in some trendy coffee shop? He doesn’t give a s***. He just wants to get some liquidity around his shares and steps over the homeless guy en route to his yoga class.”
And, of course, as Ed Driscoll points out, and will come as no surprise to readers here, the dirty little secret is that they’re self-righteous Democrats.