A natural controlled economic experiment. You can see the stark difference in satellite photos of the peninsula at night.
Chris Kraft Speaks
It’s time for NASA (and Congress) to get real:
So come on NASA, wake up! Take the lid off and turn loose the human resources you already have in place. Most of these bright people came to NASA excited about the future, about going back to the Moon to stay and becoming a part of what could be another renaissance in space.
Building a great big rocket is not a necessary expenditure at this time. In fact, the budget that will be consumed by this big rocket will prevent NASA from any meaningful human exploration for at least the next decade and probably beyond. We don’t have to march in place while we wait for the powers that be to cancel it. Let’s be innovative; let’s wake up the sleeping giant and have at returning to the Moon right now.
Unfortunately, NASA isn’t the problem.
The EPA’s Fracking Scare
Gee, it’s almost like they have a political agenda or something.
What Could Go Wrong?
You Go, Girl
Maria Conchita Alonso speaks truth to Sean Penn.
What Is Paul Allen’s Venture Really For?
While last week’s news about the new privately-funded air-launch system was exciting, many industry observers have been scratching their heads over aspects of it that don’t seem to quite add up, from both business and technical perspectives. Continue reading What Is Paul Allen’s Venture Really For?
Science Mnemonics
The Enemies Of The Humanities
In Which My Respect For Penn Jillette’s Intelligence
…plummets. Gillette certainly doesn’t seem “wicked smart” in this episode.
It occurs to me that Jillette wouldn’t say this if he thought that Obama really was a Christian. It’s just a pose for the rubes, and he approves, recognizing the cultural necessity. Obama doesn’t believe in anyone higher than himself.
A Terrible Week For Liberty Fighters
First Hitchens, and now Vaclev Havel has died. Here’s what Matt Welch had to say about him a few years ago.
Don’t expect the media to make a big deal of it. He was the wrong kind of dissenter, being too American for Europe. The fact that he never won a Peace Prize, while Yasser Arafat and Barack Obama did, says something very fundamental about the corruption and uselessness of that once-honorable achievement. I’d also note (to cite a tweet) that he’s an example of the ancient dictum (that I just made up) that a country can do a lot worse than having a dissident playwright as a president. Mamet, 2012!
[Monday morning update]
More thoughts (from a couple years ago) from Bruce Bawer. And here’s a roundup over at National Review Online.