White progressives can literally talk for hours about why their opinions on everything don’t matter and they’ll explain in the most esoteric of detail exactly why their perspective is unimportant and should be ignored. https://t.co/lhz2ku75Ec
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) January 31, 2022
China In Space
Mike Rogers is concerned.
But he doesn’t lay out any vision or goals of what we should be trying to accomplish. He’s stuck in Sputnic/Apollo mode. It’s just that the race (for whatever it is) is now with China, instead of the USSR.
Maybe I should write an editorial response.
My Birthday
Thanks everyone for the birthday greetings yesterday. Still hoping for many more trips around the sun, and maybe some from beyond Earth.
Lockdowns
I never thought that they would.
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Why can’t the CDC admit that there’s no solid evidence to support masking in schools?
What little regard I’ve ever had for the CDC has been pretty much dissipated in the past two years.
[Evening update]
First link fixed, sorry!
Octopodes
Are they from outer space?
A Dying Nation
Thoughts from Spengler on the sad future of Ukraine, regardless of what Russia does.
The Inevitable
If we’re going to be servicing satellites (and we are), we have to accept the dual use of the technology. Space is a place.
[Update a few minutes later]
More from Space News.
[Update a while later]
China’s plans to dominate space.
How The Republicans Can Block Breyer’s Replacement
…through an obscure Senate rule. Watch them scream like stuck pigs if they do it.
Apollo 1
It’s been fifty-five years since the pad disaster. It was the day before my birthday.
A Doctor’s Perspective
…on covid.
[Update a few minutes later]
Doctors: Give kids their childhood back.
[Update a while later]
Covid-19’s impact of expressive individualism.