…from the worst column ever.
It would be interesting to see these morons respond to Charlie.
Artemis Costs
That would be four to six billion per year.
It could be done for five billion or so total, if they don’t have to use SLS/Orion or the Gateway. Main expense is building a lander.
[Afternoon update]
Thoughts from Keith Cowing.
The Gaia Hypothesis
Is it time to take it seriously?
One way to look at space development and settlement is as Gaia reproducing, spreading life into and throughout the solar system, and eventually the galaxy.
Extreme Weather, And Climate
Thoughts from Judith Curry, whose previously scheduled congressional hearing this week (with Michael Mann) has been indefinitely postponed.
Oberlin College
…is claiming poverty.
Screw them. Put them out of business. Let them serve as an example to the other Social Justice Universities.
[Update a while later]
Campus insanity is migrating into society, and Republicans had better stop it before it’s too late.
This is also a useful reminder that contra leftist tropes, business, and corporations, hate the free market.
Plus this:
…key Republican leaders, like Senator Lamar Alexander (R–Tenn.), are resisting calls from among their colleagues and conservative groups to attach protections for free speech to the endlessly flowing spigot of cash from Washington. Instead, Republicans seem to be substituting real support for free speech with a toothless resolution, which pays lip service to calling out speech codes and speech “zones” as contrary to the First Amendment.
There is a reason (well, lots of reasons) they call them the Stupid Party.
[Friday-morning update]
Will Oberlin learn its lesson? Probably not.
[Update a while later]
The jury hated Oberlin.
And deservedly so.
In my view, the main significance of the jury’s verdict is that is shows how normal people react when they are exposed to today’s campus leftism. You cannot sell to a normal person the idea that it is “racism” for a store to catch a student stealing a bottle of wine, and call the police, merely on account of the student’s skin color. Social justice warrior culture is insane, and is properly judged as such by normal people, who–luckily for them–tend not to encounter it often. The jury’s reaction to the demonization of Gibson’s bakery is, I think, a good indication of how most Americans will respond if, and when, they realize how depraved the Left has become.
Yes.
[Saturday-morning update]
Conor Friedersdorf has the full story:
After that initial round of protests, Oberlin caved to student demands to cancel all its business with the bakery. Later, an Oberlin Police Department investigation, undertaken to probe accusations of racist behavior at the bakery, found that among 40 adults arrested for shoplifting at the business in a five-year period, six were black, suggesting vigilant enforcement against people of all races.
“Suggesting…”
India
Is talking about its own space station.
It doesn’t say what the inclination would be, though. If I were them, I’d put it in the same orbit as ISS.
Biden Claims There “wasn’t A Hint Of Scandal” In The Obama Administration
Humans And Robots In Space
The Gateway
The latest, after last week’s space-policy turmoil.
I think that Bridenstine (and Scott Pace) feel compelled to publicly support it, in the hope of maintaining Congressional support for NASA budgets in general, but I’m not sure it’s a great strategy.
[Update a while later]
Welcome to the new moon race.
Politico seems to be doing a fiftieth anniversary issue.
A “Magic Bullet”?
A potential replacement for chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer.
Faster, please.