…but man, is it pouring now, with reportedly a lot more to come. It’s a real pineapple express, with a stream of moist air three thousand miles out from north of Hawaii. Glad I don’t live in the foothills. Hard to see how they’re going to avoid mudslides this week. But at least we’re building up snow pack in the Sierra.
Feminism
…explained.
Making The Science Less Dismal
A cute paen to Friedrich Hayek.
Somehow, I won’t hold my breath looking for the Keynesian equivalent. Let alone the Krugman one.
A Solution Looking For A Problem
Lou Friedman, like most sensible people, wonders why the Congress is insisting that NASA waste billions on a heavy lifter with no payloads. Of course, the real problem being solved here is job losses, nothing else.
Missing The California Of My Youth
This guy is probably just a racist.
Talk about a human-caused disaster.
A Scientific Theory
…is judged by its predictive powers. Unless it’s climate change, of course. Because there, the issue isn’t the issue. It’s about power, and forced wealth redistribution.
The Business Case For Iridium Servicing
Jon Goff has a very interesting post about the potential for justifying the private development of a LEO tug.
This is a key element of a LEO (and cis-lunar) infrastructure that NASA has ignored ever since the ignominious end of the disastrous Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) program in the early nineties (another wonder of management from Marshall). We should have had one decades ago, but it looks like the private sector is going to have to make it happen. Once in existence, it has a number of other useful (and money making) applications, if NASA can start to be a good customer.
What Is Going On With Boeing?
The Dreamliner program looks like a real mess. I wonder how much of this is a result of labor issues?
The Perils Of Constitutional Ignorance
Thanks to congressional incompetence, the food-safety bill is dead. Sometimes, perhaps more than not, given how evil most of what they want to do is, I’m glad that Congress is incompetent.
Space Cheese
…and other breakthroughs. Katherine Mangu-Ward reports on last week’s SpaceX success. Yours truly is cited. FWIW.
[Update a while later]