I haven’t had time to respond to this from a few days back, but Eric Worrall did.
Defeating The Wardens Of Wokeness
We need, somehow, to restore the lost consensus.
Maria Butina
…jailed for the crime of being Russian.
Seems like Trump should be able to pardon her. I would, just to watch heads explode.
And meanwhile, the rats are fleeing the sinking collusion ship.
The Gateway
Bob Zimmerman says it’s time for it to die.
Yes, the bureaucrats are pretending that it’s a required part of returning to the moon when, as Bob Zubrin has pointed out it’s a toll booth at best, and a likely roadblock, and there has been no public debate about its necessity.
Artemis
Eric Berger has gotten a copy of the plan.
It only looks ambitious in comparison to previous plans, not to serious plans. At best, it’s Apollo on steroids. And as he notes, there is no budget, either stated or actual.
The Space Settlement Forum
Steve Wolfe has been working on putting this together, in conjunction with the ISDC in a couple weeks. I’ll be doing a presentation there on space property rights for settlers.
Wayne Hale
A few months ago, I asked him to be on my advisory board for my new company. He thanked me for the offer, but told me he had to decline because there was a potential conflict of interest. But today he announced that he is going to be heading up a much more important advisory council. I think it’s a great choice.
Global Heating
Our children will never know what snow in Yosemite in mid-May looks like.
This has been an unusually wet winter, even in southern California. We got quite a bit of rain here early Sunday morning, with more showers expected in the next couple days and this weekend (Memorial Day!). The new growth, including in the burn areas up the coast north of Malibue, is tremendous. It’s still green, and will be into June or July, but it’s going to make a lot of fuel when the rains stop in late summer and fall. If every winter was like this one, we would no longer be living in a desert. That’s the kind of climate change I could definitely get behind. But we’d still be stuck with our crazy voters and government.
Moon Dust
Electron Crystallography
An interesting breakthrough. I wonder where it might lead?