There are large lacunae in the Outer Space Treaty, and as the article points out, it would be absurd to send someone to Mars to arrest someone per Article VI.
[Update later afternoon[
Sorry, link is fixed.
Defunding The Universities
This looks promising. The American taxpayer has been subsidizing this crap for too long.
It’s Not Just SLS
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.
“White Fragility”
The book is condescending to black people. Yup.
Meanwhile, the Smithsonian has gone cultural Marxist.
A Younger Moon
I’ve never thought it looked a day over four billion years old, myself.
[Afternoon update]
Link is fixed.
The Ridgecrest Quakes
…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.
“Moderate” Joe Biden
Yes, the left has hijacked the demented fool’s campaign.
Another Scalp At The NYT
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.
Our Educational SYstem
It is a useful idiot production factory.
Remote Working
What Silicon Valley has to lose from it.