Thomas James writes about libertarian versus statist approaches to space colonization. A different way of framing it might be a dynamist versus a stasist
Thomas also has a new pillory of the space luddites up (his previous one spurred the post about libertarianism in space).
You know how “everyone loves Lucy”? I never did. I always thought that she was an embarrassment to womankind, and never found the show all that funny. Apparently, Lileks wasn’t impressed, either:
Lucille Ball also shows up, and you can smell the cigarette smoke from 30 years away. She did not give the impression of being a particularly pleasant person.
[Warning, just a small snippet from a much larger, mostly unrelated Bleat. But it’s Lileks–go read it anyway.]
You know how “everyone loves Lucy”? I never did. I always thought that she was an embarrassment to womankind, and never found the show all that funny. Apparently, Lileks wasn’t impressed, either:
Lucille Ball also shows up, and you can smell the cigarette smoke from 30 years away. She did not give the impression of being a particularly pleasant person.
[Warning, just a small snippet from a much larger, mostly unrelated Bleat. But it’s Lileks–go read it anyway.]
You know how “everyone loves Lucy”? I never did. I always thought that she was an embarrassment to womankind, and never found the show all that funny. Apparently, Lileks wasn’t impressed, either:
Lucille Ball also shows up, and you can smell the cigarette smoke from 30 years away. She did not give the impression of being a particularly pleasant person.
[Warning, just a small snippet from a much larger, mostly unrelated Bleat. But it’s Lileks–go read it anyway.]
Well, not power, but insanity and murderousness.
I wrote previously of a courageous woman. Here is the video, in Arabic, with English subtitles.
And while I’m no big fan of Al Jazeera, props to them for showing it to the Arab world. I wonder why they did? Are they realizing that the jig is up?
And I think that if the Administration were smart, they’d provide SS protection to her.
…from SpaceX. Clark Lindsey does have a little interesting news from India, though. It sounds like they may be getting smarter:
The stages appear to be powered by conventional rockets using “semi-cryogenic ” engines, e.g. LOX/kerosene. Previous Indian RLV designs that I have seen usually involved some sort of scramjet first stage.
That’s it for now–still busy demolishing the kitchen. I hope that I can finish that today, so that I can get to the rebuilding part, which I find much more enjoyable.
[Sunday evening update]
Alan Boyle has info in comments, and at his site.
SpaceX apparently had a successful static test firing at Kwajalein today. I assume that this means they’re go for launch sometime in the next few days.
[Update at 5 PM EST]
D’oh!
As a commenter points out, this is old news. I should have double checked it first.
Today, I finish tearing the kitchen apart. Maybe pictures later, if anyone cares.
Posts will be green today, in celebration. The beer, however, will not. Also, I’ll keep this post at the top all day, as a warning.
Posts will be green today, in celebration. The beer, however, will not. Also, I’ll keep this post at the top all day, as a warning.