This reminds me of my piece on climate and the Precautionary Principle.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Last Man On The Moon
A review of the Cernan documentary, by Chris Petty.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
No, Vox
Not “all diet books lie.”
It’s amazing how many people, including journalists, cling to discredited nutrition “science.”
Landing On Mars
SpaceX has already demonstrated the tech needed to do it with Falcon 9 flybacks.
[Update a while later]
More details from Loren Grush.
As I write in my project: “There was an old saying on the American frontier about the Mississippi River: ‘It’s too thick to drink, but too thickn to plow.’ Similarly, the Martian atmosphere has been tantalizing aerodynamicists for decades.” They really need to stop trying to use the Martian atmosphere if they want to drop serious payload.
Blue Origin Engine Progress
This update from Jeff Bezos looks encouraging.
Sarah Cruddas
I met her briefly in Colorado Springs at the National Space Symposium. Here’s a nice interview with her.
More Mars 2018 Stories
Here’s one from Nadia Drake, over at NatGeo, Lisa Grossman at New Scientist, Jeff Foust at Space News, and a follow up from Eric Berger, who’s been writing quite a bit this week.
Expert Judgment And Uncertainty Qualification
An interesting post from Judith Curry on the gross deficiencies of the IPCC approach.
The Latest From The Lexington Institute
“Why is the USAF trying to destroy the launch industry?”
I may fisk this later, if I get time, but what a load of bull.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Daniel Gouré’s op-ed “Why Does The Air Force Want To Destroy The Struggling U.S. Space Launch Business?” is inaccurate and misleading.
You don’t say.
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