Do we really need it?
Probably not. I do continue to think we need a U.S. Space Guard, though.
Is The White House Holding Up The Starship Test Flight?
Bob Zimmerman thinks so.
I supposed it’s possible, but NASA needs it to fly. Nelson could probably pressure Biden if that were really happening.
[Update a while later]
Starship is stacked and ready for launch.
Except for the license.
Pixel Valhalla
A long but interesting discourse on the current state of men and women.
Rousseau
…and the collapse of American Constitutionalism.
If there was one person in history that I’d go back and put an end to with my time machine, it wouldn’t be Hitler, or Marx. It would be Rousseau, who was the originator of collectivist totalitarianism.
Taylor Swift
How her popularity is a sign of cultural decline.
What The Left Did To Our Country
A depressing compendium from VDH.
Marilyn Lovell
RIP.
We continue to lose the Apollo generation.
[Labor Day update]
More thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
[Bumped]
Gamble Rogers
Jimmy Buffett’s passing made me think of him. He was a major influence, and they used to play together in bars in St. Augustine. I first encountered him live at The Ark in Ann Arbor in the late seventies. It still saddens me to think what a talent was lost when he tried to save a man on a beach south of St. Augustine in 1991 (I’ve driven through there, and they’ve named the beach after him).
Here is more. I hadn’t realized that he also influenced David Bromberg.
Boom
The company’s first test flight is coming soon in Mojave. I don’t get this, though: “Aviation startup Boom Technology’s XB-1 demonstrator jet has moved from a hangar in Centennial, Colorado, to the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.”
How did it “move”? I can’t imagine how it could have been transported on the ground, unless it was in pieces. That implies that it must have self ferried, so it’s already has its first flight. I guess this will be the first supersonic flight.
[Afternoon update]
Sorry, I put in the link.
Because We’re Not Stupid
American’s are catching wise to Biden’s corruption.