…is about to change to one of resilience and mitigation.
It badly needs to. We can afford a lot of resilience and mitigation if we stop impeding economic growth with insane anti-carbon policies.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
A New Japanese Launcher
A “flagship” LOX/Hydrogen system with solids (sounds like cross between an Atlas V and Delta IV), to be operational in 2020. This seems more like a national pride thing than a practical launcher, unless they can resolve their site and calendar restrictions out of Tanegashima.
A Win-Win Sanction
Josh Galernter agrees with me that it’s time to end our dependency on the Russians for space. He doesn’t point out, though that we could probably start flying on Dragon any time we want. We just have to decide that it’s important.
Reusability And Other Launch-Industry Issues
Jeff Foust has a report at today’s issue of The Space Review.
The Future Of Commercial Space
An interview with Michael Lopez-Alegria.
As I note in comments there, NASA is not the only orbital customer. Bigelow has long expressed an interest in purchasing flights when they’re available at an affordable price.
The “Selling Space” Debate
Jeff Foust has six takeaways.
Falcon Heavy
SpaceX has it on their flight schedule for this year.
Faster, please.
British Accents
…of yore.
I’ve always wondered how anyone can think they know what an accent from before Edison would have sounded like. How do we know that Romans would have spoken the Latin of the modern Church?
[Update a few minutes later]
That second video on the how Shakespeare would have been performed in the day is quite interesting.
Aircraft Cockpits
Can they be too secure?
They can be, and are.
Our lessons from 911 and approaches to aircraft security have been wrong headed for over 12.5 years. @PopMech
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 20, 2014
The STEM Shortage
It’s a myth.
I agree. The problem isn’t a shortage of workers in that field. But innumeracy and scientific illiteracy is a big problem in our society, particularly among the voters. And that includes the illiteracy of those who mindlessly accept a lot of bogus nutrition and climate “science.”