Saving The Incandescent Bulb
A one-man crusade against bi-partisan stupidity.
SpaceX And Radiation
John Muratore describes SpaceX’s approach to their SEU issues.
2013 Looks Like 1937
In at least four scary ways.
The Private (Union) Takeover
…of public schools. This idea isn’t as good as outlawing public-employee unions, but it would be a good step.
Corn-Bread Stuffing
Glenn links to a recipe from Rod Dreher. Looks good, but I’m allergic to pecans. Here’s mine, which I originally posted seven years ago, and is more paleo.
Iron Dome
Back in mid-June, during the great Paris weapons show, the Rafael pavilion was absolutely the busiest around, and everybody wanted to look at the new, exciting, Iron Dome system, the greatest achievement in rocket defense ever. But by the end of the show, Rafael hadn’t made a single sale. The Arrow sold well, other systems did great – Iron Dome wasn’t moving. So they contacted their big clients, the serious ones, and asked what gives. And those clients told them no one except Israel has any use for these things. Because in any normal, sane country, if some hooligans were to start targeting civilians with rockets – the army would go and kill them.
Like it or not, there is only one solution to the Hamas tyranny of terror in Gaza: they need to be rounded up and killed, and their terrified subjects need to be permitted to pursue their lives with dignity and liberty and happiness.
That Israel has to live in such lunatic circumstances is a symptom of a continuing deep anti-semitism of the Left the world over, and particularly deep rooted in the UN.
[Update a while later]
Want to end the Hamas war? Here’s how.
Secession?
Let’s try federalism instead. What a concept.
Space Safety Bleg
I’m about to launch another Kickstarter project to actually publish the Space Safety book (current title: Safe Is Not An Option: How Our Futile Obsession To Bring Everyone Back Is Killing Spaceflight). I’m trying to raise a few thousand to allow me to pay some people for a professional editing and illustration, and to start planning a symposium on the subject in conjunction with the Space Transportation Conference in DC in February, less than three months from now.
The book will probably be about a hundred pages, paperback. I don’t expect it to be a best seller at any price, but is ten bucks a reasonable number to get a book as a Kickstarter reward? I could sell for less, but I wouldn’t make much on it, unless I get enough interest to do an offset printing.
The Last Man On The Moon
I just wish that he wasn’t so ignorant about what’s going on currently in space policy, and wasn’t given so much credence by people who imagine he isn’t.