An ignorant rant against the “billionaire space race.”
[Update a while later]
As would be expected, Alan Boyle has a more intelligent take on the “race.”
SLS BS
It’s like these people are living in an alternate reality. No sane program manager is going to want to use SLS. And a billion dollars a flight? That might be the marginal cost, but it’s not the average.
[Saturday-morning update]
More thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
Structural Sexism
Actually, it’s happening in lower ed as well.
Matthew Yglesias
…seems to be having fits of sanity lately.
Fake Meat And Hydroponics
It’s not all it’s cracked up to be. This doesn’t seem like good news for growing food in space, if soil is a key element of flavor. We know it is with wine grapes.
Engineered Cells
…successfully treat cardiovascular and pulmonary disease.
Faster, please.
If You Hate The Culture Wars
The Anti-Semitism
A Piece Of Work
So she’s offered tenure that she doesn’t deserve for her appalling ahistorical divisive thesis, and she turns it down.
Newsom And The California Democrats
…may have outsmarted themselves.
Let’s hope.