Also in today’s issue of The Space Review, Bob Clarebrough asks if the EU is capable of allowing a space tourism industry to develop in Europe:
…consider this: the Gettysburg Address ran to 264 words, the Declaration of Independence required 1,332, yet the European Union regulations on the sale of cabbages need 23,826 words. It
Jeff Foust already has a piece up at The Space Review about this past weekend’s X-Prize Cup, and the state of NewSpace:
Both the overall Cup and Armadillo
Phil Carter has some recommendations for a new approach in Iraq.
As the US gets its 300 millionth resident, is Europe in one?
As the US gets its 300 millionth resident, is Europe in one?
As the US gets its 300 millionth resident, is Europe in one?
Kaus amusingly dissects some particularly stupid arguments against “the fence.”
7. “[E]fforts to protect pronghorn sheep and encourage the jaguar to return to the United States could be seriously affected.” We can patrol the whole border with high-tech cameras and “ground-based radar,” yet we can’t cut some holes for pronghorn sheep and patrol just them with cameras and “ground-based radar”? That would be something for the unionized border guards to do! But I guess we might have to give up the jaguar…. Oh wait, we don’t have jaguars. We might have to give up re-acquiring the jaguar. OK. Which will it be: No new jaguars or no new illegal immigrants. Let’s vote!
Can’t get any more full, in fact, than Jane Galt does.
Full disclosure: I met Malcolm at Harvard, where I used to cheat off of him in calculus exams. Now I have to invite him to my annual Christmas party, have dinner with him and his appalling wife three times a year, and say nice things about all his books. Kids, let this be a lesson to you.
Sell “Miracle Whip Classic,” at a higher price, and everyone can be happy.
How Lancet did it this time, according to Strategy Page.