Business, Law, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

Elon’s Thursday Starship Presentation

February 11, 2022 Rand Simberg 72 Comments

What Eric Berger is hoping to learn.

[Thursday update]

It’s at 2100 EST, on Youtube.

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[Update a few minutes later]

Bob Zimmerman will be live streaming it as well.

[Friday-morning update]

Here is Eric Berger’s report.

What I heard last night that was new to me (maybe he’s said this before) was that it was less than a million per flight on the margin, and it could deliver 150 tons to LEO (I had thought the number was a hundred tons). That’s a fifty percent increase, and a one-third reduction in cost per pound.

[Late-afternoon update]

A report from NASA Spaceflight.

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[Saturday-morning update]

More on Musk at Politico, in which Yours Truly is quoted and cited.

Culinary, General Science, Health, Science And Society

Calorie Restriction

February 11, 2022 Rand Simberg

…rewires metabolism and the immune system.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle

February 11, 2022 Rand Simberg 8 Comments

…looks worse and worse.

But he doubles down in defending it.

Economics, General Science, Space, Space Science, Technology and Society

First Light

February 11, 2022 Rand Simberg 5 Comments

I’m glad that Webb is working, but I continue to believe it was a mistake.

[Update a while later]

To clarify, I think it was a mistake to do it in the way it was done, but now that it’s operational, obviously it would be a mistake to abandon it now.