…which means it’s a great day for America.
[Update mid-afternoon]
Without Trump, there’s no horse in the hospital.
De Santis appears to me to be trying to capture the best features of Trump, while avoiding the terrible ones.
NASA Safety
An article about Homer Hickam and Yours Truly. They get this wrong, though: “…while Hickam and Simberg may disagree on the value of safety, they may agree that NASA could not afford to suffer such losses, especially considering pressures from Congress and the general public.”
Homer and I do not in fact disagree on the value of safety. Here is his review of the book.
The Education Crisis
We shouldn’t let it go to waste.
The New “Four-Star Admiral”
Yes, this would be ridiculous if it wasn’t so offensive.
The Mess In LA And Long Beach Harbors
The people at Flexport took a tour yesterday. A large part of the solution is (at least temporarily) deregulation. But it will be economically devastating if we don’t fix this soon.
[Update Saturday afternoon]
Problem solved. This is kind of amazing. Petersen is a leader, and a hero.
[Bumped]
Covid And Climate
So much for the cirrus-clouds-from-airplanes theory.
Starship
…is still not understood.
[Update Friday afternoon]
The latest SLS follies: This isn’t insane at all.
“Transphobic” Lesbians
This is getting ridiculous. If I don’t want to sleep with a guy who thinks he’s a woman, it’s not because I’m “transphobic.” It’s because I am extremely heterosexual, and have not only zero, but negative interest in physically interacting with, or even looking at male genitals. Now if it’s an attractive woman who thinks she’s a man, that’s a different story, but it doesn’t seem like a good idea to engage in sexual relations with people who are funny in the head.
Immortal Data
My business associate and former XCOR employee Dale Amon is doing an equity crowdfunding on his company in Las Cruces.
Another Commercial Space Station
As with the Nanoracks/Lockmart one, there is no discussion of orbital location. It looks like Sierra has decided to team up.
[Tuesday-morning update]
OK, here’s a description from NASA Spaceflight. They clearly want to be co-orbital with ISS, but they say that they’ll be at a higher altitude. That doesn’t make sense, because if they aren’t at the same altitude, the nodes are going to drift apart and while they’ll be at the same inclination, they will be in a different orbit plane. They should be leading or trailing it at the same altitude if they want to stay co-planar.