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Category Archives: Technology and Society
Healthcare.gov
The problems she describes with the federal procurement system afflict both Air Force and NASA space projects as well.
Supersonic Airliners
This is a pretty extensive discussion. I don’t see hydrogen as the fuel, but when you’re a Reaction Engine hammer, every airplane looks like a nail.
Jerry Brownout
California’s disastrously stupid energy policy.
Orion
Official schedule just slipped to April 2023 for EM2. Like Constellation, it’s slipping more than a year per year. The program began in 2005. That would make it eighteen years.
Breakdown of Orion costs dating to 2005 ish: $5.8b under Constellation program, $4.5b since Constellation canceled, $6.77b through 2023.
— Stephen Clark (@StephenClark1) September 16, 2015
I weep when I contemplate the much more useful ways we could have spent that money. https://t.co/qaL2Tdqrhl
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) September 16, 2015
Public-School Child Abuse
Some morons in Texas arrested a fourteen-year-old kid for building a digital clock.
As far as I’m concerned, though, CAIR isn’t doing him any favors by getting involved.
Defying Darwin
A Colorado park stays closed because too many people are taking selfies with bears.
I think we should just let evolution take its course, myself.
Transhumanists
The Beeb checks them out.
Kind of funny that the reporter thinks that Aubrey de Grey is a woman.
[Update a few minutes later]
@Rand_Simberg oh wow, thanks for flagging. As you'll see from my film, I do know that! Not sure how that happened. Will change now.
— Benjamin Zand (@BenjaminZand) September 15, 2015
Probably an editorial error.
Paul Ehrlich
The man who has never been right about anything doesn’t like Mark Steyn’s new book.
[Via Ed Driscoll]
The Next President And Space
Another piece at The Space Review I missed last week was Jeff Foust’s assessment of the presidential field in the context of space policy.
Bottom line: None of them are going to be a JFK. Which isn’t surprising, because even JFK wasn’t the JFK of space-advocate fantasies. We live in a democratic Republic, and we’re not going to do Apollo again, to Mars or anywhere else. The best we can hope for is a president who recognizes the value of high-leverage space technology needed to reduce costs, and will fund those things necessary to support it during his or her term.