I met Vanessa a few years ago at a CONFERS meeting.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Catastrophic DEF Shortage
Solar Desalination
How Much Would It Cost To Live In Space?
A meaningless article. No one is going to pay those kinds of costs to live in space. Fortunately, they won’t have to.
Fusion
…in spaaaaace. In half a decade.
I’m skeptical, but it would be great obviously if it works, and I’m glad that DIU is funding things like this.
[Update a few minutes later]
Link added now, sorry.
NASA And UAPs
Nadia Drake has thoughts.
The Steam Engine
Why wasn’t it invented earlier?
The Economics Of Space Resources
An interesting Twitter thread by Phil Metzger, who’s been working the issue for a while. I haven’t reviewed it in any detail.
SLS Boondoggle Update
According to the OIG, the second launch tower is a schedule/cost nightmare.
[Noon update]
Here‘s Eric Berger’s take.
[Afternoon update]
Further thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
Naomi Wolf
…has taken the red pill on the Second Amendment, and become a gun owner.