Was it a result of air pollution? Interesting.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
An Angry Astronaut
Does NASA still have safety problems?
Yes, but as I wrote in my book, many of them are in fact a result of risk aversion.
Starship
Can it really launch three times a day?
We’re going to have to completely rethink “ranges.”
Live Long And Prosper
…if they will let you.
What Future For The SLS?
A good op-ed from Donald Robertson. He’s saying things that have been obvious for years, but that too many people pretend aren’t the case.
Disturbing
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A New Form Of Ice
As noted, we continue to not know what we don’t know about H2O. I wonder at what temperatures it maintains the properties, and if it will have any practical applications.
Virgin Orbit
…might be on its last legs.
#GoogleLeaks Tells #TwitterFiles To Hold Its Beer
There need to be congressional investigations into this. These people are at war with half country, and they have far too much power.
I don’t know if it’s related, but recently Google has started randomly blocking my emails to Gmail users as spam. It’s very annoying.
[Update a few minutes later]
ChatGPT Plus has Google in its sites.
Good.
[Update a few more minutes later]
This seems to be the problem with my email. It did start in November, I think.
NASA’s Safety Culture
Twenty years after Columbia, is it fixed?