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Technically, of course, the balloon isn’t a “spaceship.”
Category Archives: Technology and Society
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.
An Epistemological Question
Ron Bailey wonders what it would take to convince you that AGW was occurring.
Roy Spencer responds.
I agree that Ron is a smart guy, but I do think there’s some of this going on:
I hate to impute motives, but I really have to wonder if he is succumbing to peer pressure, since believing anything that smacks of denial-ism is really frowned upon in the intellectual circles I’m sure Ron is part of.
I think it’s compounded by the fact that it’s hard enough to change your mind once. It would be kind of embarrassing to revert back to skepticism. The key point, of course, is that Ron doesn’t necessarily believe that the problem demands any particular policy solution.
Large Space Structures
Rob Hoyt has a revolutionary idea. If power satellites ever happen, this would be the likely construction technique.