The ethics of dealing with astronauts’ bodies.
That’s not an issue I address in the book. Maybe I should.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The American Physical Society
…beclowns itself again on climate:
Well, their paragraph on Climate Science is a rather astonishing take on the APS Workshop. Their paragraph on Climate Change seems to come from the Guardian. Their statement on Climate Action reiterates their rather crazy statement in 2007
Apart from the issue that no one on the POPA seems to understand any of these issues beyond a superficial level (after Koonin and Rosner departed from the POPA), and that their statements are naive and unprofessional, here is my real problem with this. This is an egregious misuse of the expertise of the APS. Their alleged understanding of issues like spectroscopy and fluid dynamics are not of any direct relevance to the issues they write about in this statement. The statement is an embarrassment to the APS.
Either reform is required, or an alternate organization.
Commercial Spaceships
Forbes has a gallery.
Technically, of course, the balloon isn’t a “spaceship.”
The Secret Republicans
As with any culture dominated by Leftists, it’s a chilling atmosphere.
California And Water
What almost everyone one gets wrong about California’s water “problem.” But as is almost always the case, it also completely misses the point that there is no market for water here; it is allocated almost completely by politics.
[Update late morning]
Fight the drought: End recycling?
California is in a huge mess of its own making.
The “Road To Mars”
Kicking the can down it. Anyone who is waiting for NASA to send anyone to Mars is going to be very disappointed.
Peter Thiel
A conversation with Tyler Cowen, on the future of innovation, life extension and God.
Blue Origin
They’ve completed acceptance tests for their new suborbital LOX/hydrogen engine. Hope this means they start flying again soon.
NASA And The Moon
Yes, the agency really is reconsidering it.
One can understand why PAO has to deny it, though.
[Update a few minutes later]
This looks like an interesting seminar. Things like this are why I sometimes regret not living in DC.
COMSTAC And The Learning Period
Jeff Foust has a report on last week’s meeting, but I can’t tell from it what actually came out of it.