Despite the failure to land so far, it looks like SpaceX is making progress more rapidly than anticipated.
[Afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman is writing the obituary for SLS. I hope he’s right.
The Neoracists
Thoughts on “anti-racism” from John McWhorter.
Excuse Me?
How is comparing today’s political climate to Nazi Germany anti-Semitic?
[Update a few minutes later]
I don’t know where that first link came from, but I think it’s fixed now.
[Update a while later]
Carano’s firing is just more Calvinball.
And she gets her job back by identifying as an abusive male director.
[Friday-morning update]
The Election
…wasn’t “stolen,” but it was underhandedly tilted.
The “Elites”
Their loyalty is no longer to America (if it ever was) but to the Communist Party of China.
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Cuban’s ugly Chicom mating ritual is now complete.
Senator SLS
…is (finally) retiring. Here are four potential people to replace him. Brooks is from Huntsville. He and Ross Aderholt have been the biggest proponents of the Big Monster Rocket in the House.
Another Dumb Space Article
Sigh.
No, there was never a Trump plan for sending anyone to Mars by 2024, and the FAA didn’t cancel the SpaceX test.
The Pointlessness Of Impeachment
Thoughts and links from Glenn Reynolds.
Yes, few have pointed out that being impeached and removed, and barred, doesn’t make him ineligible to be elected again.
SN9 Update
A good article about the landing failure at Teslerati.
The High Frontier
The movie trailer has been released.
I personally know almost everyone in that trailer (you can see a young Eric Drexler on the extreme right of the MIT mass-driver team). I’m supposedly in the film (I was interviewed for it).