These are all interesting stories, but articles like this contribute to public confusion about what is science and what is not. Curiosity landing on Mars was a great technological achievement, but it wasn’t science, though it may (in fact will, and already has) produce some. Even less science are the Dragon flights to the ISS — again, this is about engineering, not science. And ending invasive research on chimps is a moral breakthrough, perhaps, but it’s not science. In some sense, in fact, it’s anti-science, if one removes ethics from the definition of science.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Only The US Has A Shale Boom
…and only the US has decreased its carbon emissions over the past half decade. And without cap’n’tax or mandates, and despite efforts by the Left to curtail the boom.
Starships And Wormholes
There’s an interesting new book
The Left’s War On Science, Part …
It turns out that fracking is perfectly safe, and the New York state government tried to hide the evidence:
Greens are quick to defend their climate change position with scientific evidence and have positioned themselves as a movement wedded to science. But it is becoming increasingly apparent that evidence is a flag of convenience for a movement that is rooted in emotion and passion far more than it likes to admit.
Because it doesn’t like to admit it at all, even though it’s mostly that.
Cash For Clunkers
We knew (at least those of us not idiots) that it was criminally insane from an economic standpoint, but it also turns out that it was an environmental disaster.
For Gun Controllers
…some questions.
Don’t expect any thoughtful or logical answers. To the degree that these people are actually sincere in their motivations, and not just power mongers, they operate on pure emotion. They say they want to have a “conversation,” but they don’t. They just want to lecture us, and disarm us.
Burt Rutan
He gave a talk on human spaceflight in Jacksonville a few weeks ago, and it was recorded.
Testing Compensating Nozzles
John Hare has a question.
A Death Star
…would make a great stimulus and green energy project.
From my point of view, just think what the demand for that much material lifted from earth would do for launch costs. Unless they used SLS, of course.
Some Opinions On Gun Control
A lot of people have them, but Larry Correia’s are particularly worth reading, for those willing to be rational on the subject.