We were watching The Sound Of Music last night while trimming the tree. Someone else was on Twitter, and linked this spoof from eight years ago, that I’d never seen.
The Solar Minimum
It is officially “deep.”
Chute Problems
An interesting look at the delays for Commercial Crew.
Coming in on chutes is such a 20th-century concept. At some point we will land rockets just as we do airplanes. And if Elon has his way, that point will be within half a decade, at which point, Crew Dragon capsules may come back inside a Starship.
Reflections On Apollo
British space lawyer Joanne Wheeler has collected the thoughts of many current space leaders.
I think there are more false lessons from Apollo than valid ones. It really did create a damaging mindset for the next half century, from which we’re only starting to recover.
(Note, the format is a little confusing; the quotes come before, not after the names.)
Farewell To California
Andrew Malcolm has had enough.
We’re thinking of getting out, too. I’ve loved this state since I first visited it on a family vacation over half a century ago, but the inmates are running the asylum in Sacramento.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Over one in three San Franciscans are thinking of leaving.
Regulating Outer Space
Thoughts from Laura Montgomery on the constitutionality of it.
Coffee
I choke the stuff down every morning on faith, but this is the first time I’ve heard about it as a product for skin care.
Draining The Swamp
Federal bureaucrats are quitting rather than move out west.
Sounds good to me.
Small Nuclear Reactors
This looks promising. The field has needed innovation for a long time, and the NRC has been holding it back.
Manual Transmissions
I’ve posted this before, but another example of why they’re good for car-theft prevention.