And when he does it, the White House snarks about it, and is brutally and justifiably mocked on Twitter.
Commercial Supersonic Flight
What NASA’s up to:
“There are three barriers particular to civil supersonic flight; sonic boom, high altitude emissions and airport noise. Of the three, boom is the most significant problem,” said Peter Coen, manager of NASA’s High Speed Project with the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s Fundamental Aeronautics Program.
There’s a fourth barrier not mentioned: the low L/D, which restricts range and makes for high fuel costs. If that problem doesn’t get solved, it will never become a huge market, and will mostly be restricted to business jets.
The Missing Airplane
Did it shadow another triple seven through Indian air space?
[Update a while later]
Or was it an electrical fire?
A Mann Suit Update
…from Mark Steyn. He links to an interesting legal analysis.
Simplicity On Complexity
Is climate linear or non-linear? As she says, this is the heart of the scientific debate. But even if it can be modeled as linear, we still don’t understand enough about the interactions to model it with confidence.
Space Solar Power
The Navy Research Lab has been working on it?
Oreo Mining
This is pretty funny.
Income Inequality
Democrats are making it worse. Of course, as with racism, unemployment, poverty, education, health care, etc., that’s true about almost everything that they complain about.
SLS/Orion
No, Mr. Tito, it’s isn’t a spaceship to anywhere, let alone everywhere, or even Mars.
XCOR’s Design Change
According to the Belfast Telegraph, Lynx is now going to be VTVL.