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Nanoracks

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Jeff Manber says that space companies need to talk to each other more.

We came to the conclusion in our study … [that] there is no one company that can do commercial. One company does not make a market. … You need an ecosystem. You need compares that are doing things and other companies that use that and begin to put it into their business plan.

You also need advances in communications, like getting data down [to Earth] using advanced technology. You need orbital tugs to move hardware between [free flying commercial space stations] and the International Space Station. You need reentry vehicles, and a cost effective way to bring biopharma products and products made in microgravity like fiber optics back to Earth. What we laid out in our plan was a road map that has the government as one of many customers and a private sector that knows what each other is doing and can plan accordingly.

I’m in discussion with him, and others.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

The El Paso Manifesto

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Has anyone actually read it?

He seems to be an ecoterrorist. But among many other things, that’s inconvenient to The Narrative.

[Update a while later]

Now the owner of 8-Chan says that the shooter wasn’t the one who uploaded the manifesto. So that means it’s likely that he didn’t even write it.

But at least, unlike the Dayton fascist, we have him to question.

[Update late morning]

Sorry, first link was missing. Fixed now.

[Afternoon update]

“In a sense, we were lucky with the terrorists from faraway places. We weren’t with the ones from the suburbs of Dallas, and the traditional tools of intelligence and organized-crime investigation probably are not going to prove effective in dealing with these. None of the major gun-control measures under discussion would do much to prevent these acts, either, and many of them would do nothing at all. (We should understand that for the gun-control lobby, these horrifying crimes are only convenient pretexts; they want to prevent the legal sale and use of firearms irrespective of any effect on mass shootings or ordinary crime; their motivation is almost purely cultural and tribal — Icky rednecks and their icky guns.) That so many self-proclaimed do-gooders turn first and instinctively to gutting the Bill of Rights and suspending due process for socially marginal types and purported subversives tells us only that political power must be kept from those who desire it most. When the Democrats propose new constraints on Americans’ constitutional rights — and not only the right to keep and bear arms — and when it is clear that those constraints would do nothing at all to prevent massacres like the one in El Paso, it is fair to ask what their real motives are and why they apparently are unable to be honest about them with the public.”

Business, Culinary, Economics, Health, Science And Society, Social Commentary, Technology and Society

Former Vegans

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…turned butchers:

“As soon as I started eating meat, my health improved,” she said. “My mental acuity stepped up, I lost weight, my acne cleared up, my hair got better. I felt like a fog lifted.” All of the meat was from healthy, grass-fed animals reared on the farms where she worked.

Other former vegetarians reported that they, too, felt better after introducing grass-fed meat into their diets: Ms. Kavanaugh said eating meat again helped with her depression. Mr. Applestone said he felt far more energetic.

“It can be hard to balance your diet as a vegetarian, especially when you’re younger, and I wasn’t doing it right,” he said.

I continue to hold out hope that we’ll be able to grow grass-fed beef in a lab.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Technology and Society

Red-Flag Laws

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Why they aren’t the solution to ending mass shootings.

[Update a while later]

Why do we ignore all the mass murder of blacks in places like Chicago?

I call racism.

[Update a while later]

Yes, red-flag laws are stupid and useless.

Which distinguishes them in no way from the other proposals from the Left to end mass shootings.

[Late-afternoon update]

OK, from a tweet about how everyone in Red States carries AR-15s to the grocery store, this is hilarious.

[Friday-morning update]

No, mass shootings are not becoming more common, and yes, the media is going completely nuts.

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