I’ve been busy for the past couple days, and will continue to be, with first the Space Settlement Summit, and starting today (and concluding tomorrow) a meeting of the Moon Village Association. For those who want to participate, the latter will supposedly start to be live streamed at 8 AM PDT, but I don’t know the URL. I’ll update when I get there and find out what it is.
[Update after conference start]
Here is the livestream. Scott Pace is speaking.
The transcript has been released. Among other things, he doesn’t like electric scooters.
“…and the misplaced anger of “liberal” Jews.”
Nice to see the scare quotes.
“We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men.”
If I were running CNN, I’d be ashamed to have this moron appear in front of my cameras. But I guess that’s why I’m not running CNN.
It seems to me that the failure of a single sensor shouldn’t cause a hard launch abort.
Can African-Americans with no ties to Jamaica dress up as Bob Marley?
In case you’re tempted to not click, it’s Lileks.
[Update a few minutes later]
A couple weeks ago in DC, I met a Danish space lawyer whose middle name is Marley. Based on her appearance, though, I’m pretty sure she’s not related.
…has gone live on line. The issue has the theme of a space renaissance, also containing a very technical article by Bob Zubrin on Moon Direct, and a piece by Micah Meadowcroft on why space settlers may be doomed to disappointment.
Hopefully a return to the idea of Web 1.0, with better tech,
Potentially wonderful news on that front. I do think, though, that diet is underutilized in fighting it, and that much of it has been caused by scientifically terrible, bordering on criminal, nutrition advice for decades.
Thoughts from Instapundit. It’s pretty clear that the writers of the 14th Amendment never had any idea it would be used for this. It was to deal with the aftermath of American slavery and continuing resistance by the Democrats to end it.
And of course, I’m long on record of believing that no one should have birthright citizenship. Work here, live here, but citizenship is a privilege to be earned, regardless of parentage or place of birth.
[Wednesday morning update, finally home in California after over six weeks away]
To clarify, in response to a discussion on an email list:
Simply, if you are born here, you have a right to stay here. It makes no sense to deport someone to a country in which they’ve never lived (i.e. DACA, even though Obama’s order was illegal). Everyone born here or otherwise legally here would have the same path to citizenship. But citizenship of someone born here via that path would not entitle their family to citizenship (i.e., an end to “anchor babies”). Everyone, including children of citizens born here, is responsible for earning their citizenship. Others are legal residents, but they don’t get to vote to confiscate my wealth.
Also, this is not about “preserving the Republican Party.” It’s about preserving the Republic itself.