Some initial thoughts from Blake Powers, who seems to be continuing to recover from the lightning strike.
[Update a few minutes later]
More from Lawrence Person.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Another Aspect Of The Genocide
Why women stopped menstruating upon arrival at the Nazi death camps.
Ukraine Thoughts And Trends
An interesting assessment of the current situation.
The Coming Russian “Mobilization”
Environmentalism
…is a fundamentalist religion.
Yup.
Continuing Progress
Starship
[Afternoon update]
Starship has to work, or SpaceX is at risk of bankruptcy.
Bill Nelson 2.0
First he called cost-plus contracts a “plague” on the agency, and now he’s praising SpaceX (while pretending that he wasn’t one of the “poo pooers” himself, who told Lori to “get her boy Elon in line”). And I love this:
“When there was the beginning of the space cargo and crew [programs], the two serious bidders were SpaceX and Boeing, and everybody poo-pooed SpaceX and said, ‘Oh, Boeing is a legacy company,'” Nelson said. “Well, guess who is about to make its sixth flight after its first test flight with astronauts, and guess who’s still on the ground?”
That’s got to leave a mark.
The Rice Speech
Today is the sixtieth anniversary. I wrote this on the fortieth anniversary, and it holds up pretty well, I think. “Because it is hard” is a dumb reason to do something.
Blue Origin
Hearing that they had an in-flight abort on a research flight (no one on board). Capsule reportedly landed safely.
[Update a few minutes later]
[Update a few more minutes later]
Here is the story at SpaceExplored.
[Update a while later]
Bob Zimmerman has video.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s the story from Eric Berger.
[Afternoon update]