I hadn’t realized that after fifteen years, NASA has spent almost seventeen billion on Orion. Lockmart has been making out like a bandit.
[Update a few minutes later]
Bob Zimmerman is appropriately outraged.
Both of these programs are nothing but corrupt corporate welfare for Boeing and Lockmart, with kickbacks to congressional campaigns.
The book is condescending to black people. Yup.
Meanwhile, the Smithsonian has gone cultural Marxist.
I’ve never thought it looked a day over four billion years old, myself.
[Afternoon update]
Link is fixed.
…could trigger the San Andreas north of LA.
Nice picture. It shows how the two faults define the Mojave desert, separating it from the Tehachapis and southern Sierra. A major quake on that fault would be bad for the LA basin, but not as much as a 7 on the Newport-Inglewood fault, which last acted up in the 1930s in Long Beach. It is just a few miles east of our house.
Yes, the left has hijacked the demented fool’s campaign.
Bari Weiss has resigned.
The descent continues.
[Afternoon update]
Will she be the NYT’s James Damore? Maybe, though she’s probably not on the spectrum.
It is a useful idiot production factory.
What Silicon Valley has to lose from it.
It’s the worst news coverage of our lifetime, and it’s going to get worse.