RIP.
We continue to lose that part of the greatest generation that did some of the greatest things. I suspect that even if he hadn’t been an astronaut, he could have been a successful writer.
The Latest BS About January 6th
Thoughts on the false narrative, and our two-tiered justice system.
You Don’t Say
Elon says that a bunch of people will die going to Mars.
I don’t know if he’s read it, but I gave him a copy of the book (via Gwynne) when it came out.
A Multi-Cultural Approach To Space
This op-ed seems a little aerie faerie to me, and I’m not sure what exactly he’s proposing, but someone should tell him that space is not the common heritage of mankind.
The “Green New Deal”
…will impoverish America.
Why yes, yes it would.
NASA’s Starship Award
Five reasons it’s a watershed moment in human spaceflight.
It’s the biggest departure from the ancient Apollo mentality that the agency has ever made.
[Sunday-morning update]
Casey Handmer does a thorough analysis of just how revolutionary this capability is. We will get not only cheap lunar (and other space) transportation, but cheap lunar bases based on one-way trips of Starships. It also probably means that, for a long time, lunar ISRU for propellant will make no economic sense.
[Bumped]
Mad Magazine
And Samantha Bee is wrong about comedy.
Social Distancing
It’s just more junk science, that has wrecked state and local economies.
Connecting The Dots
Pretty solid evidence that the the Obama administration was using government agencies to illegally surveil its political opposition (including Trump) for years. And now the Biden administration is doing the same.
New VB Problem
So, I gave up on trying to solve the problem, but just found a page that explains how to install it properly, and when I followed those instructions, it went fine.
Now when I try to create a new Windows machine, from what appears to be a good Windows boot disk (and the one that I created my previous Windows machine from), I get a message “Creating process for virtual machine,” at 0% progress, and it’s stuck there. I’ve done a search, and come up pretty much empty. Any ideas?