Is anyone really headed there soon?
Well, NASA certainly isn’t.
[Update a while later]
Gwynne Shotwell: “Nobody laughs at us any more when we talk about colonizing Mars.”
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Statins
…are highly overrated.
“Renewable” Energy
…is the most expensive policy disaster in modern British history.
It didn’t work out well for Spain, either. Or Germany.
Splitting Water
…with solar energy? I wonder how the economics work out.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sorry, bad link is fixed now.
Hillary’s Spam Filterers
Would have had complete access to all the traffic.
Dear Tesla
An open letter from retail auto dealers.
Somehow, I suspect they won’t make the sale.
Climate Activists
You people lost the scientific argument. Get over it:
Essex said that there seems to be a cultural shift and that scientific arguments have deteriorated. Individuals in society have moved away from “civilized dialogues in which people have a collegial attitude and work together to try to find the truth.” Essex characterized the pro-climate change philosophy as a form of sophistry, catering to popular opinion rather than being concerned with the truth.
You don’t say.
Hypersonics
Japan and Europe are cooperating on a pre-cooled turbojet.
Unfortunately, they seem to be ignoring the real issue, which is drag and fuel consumption. I think that Mach 5 is above the sweet spot for a practical system.
Senators Inhofe And Nelson
…are upset because the Pentagon isn’t wasting taxpayer money as fast as they want it to. I’m sure this topic will come up in this afternoon’s cage match between Gwynne and Tory in front of the House Armed Services Committee.
3-D Printing
Finally goes true 3-D.
It’s finally starting to feel like the 21st century.
[Update a while later]
Aaaaaannnd, self-flying cars by 2017?
Seems a little optimistic, but if we’re going to have flying cars, they’ll have to be self flying.
[Mid-morning update]
Aaaaand, molecular 3-D printers. The future is looking very interesting. Both in the conventional and the Chinese sense.
[Late-morning update]
Aaaaannnd, lab-grown chicken meat?
That would be huge breakthrough for both earth and space. I’d really like to see it for pork, though. Technically, would lab-grown pork be kosher? Or halal?