A long essay, from James Poulos. I assume that this will be in the same issue mine and Zubrin’s will be.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Scratch that last. This was apparently in the Spring edition. Ours will be in the Summer edition.
Space Is Not A Global Commons
A Twitter thread from the U.S. representative to COPUOS.
A thread on why outer space is not a global commons! #spacelaw #globalcommons #spacepolicy
1) "Global commons" is an ill-defined term. Different people mean different things: some mean "area beyond territorial jurisdiction", others something political, regarding rights.
— Gabriel Swiney (@Monkeybane_DC) July 16, 2018
Jupiter
Has ten more moons, for a new total of seventy nine. I’m old enough to remember when there were only four.
Photocatalysis
…in weightlessness. I think the solution to all of these sorts of problems is to build large spinning spacecraft. We haven’t been doing it only because space access has been too expensive.
Kill The Pork
There is a new petition on line to kill SLS/Orion and LOPG.
The American Aristocracy
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds on the impunity of the “elite.”
Like Trump? Keep this up, because it’s how you get more Trump.
“I Was The Mob”
“…until the mob came for me.”
Strzok’s Smirk
Yes, he’s lying, and yes, he’s filth. And so are the people not just defending him, but praising him.
[Update a few minutes later]
Liz Sheld has more.
[Saturday noon update]
Denying the obvious doesn’t make it go away. What was breathtaking about his performance was not that he claimed that the bias didn’t affect his behavior; it was his insane claim that the bias didn’t even exist.
[Sunday-morning update]
More from Melissa Mackenzie:
The creepiest witness to ever grace a Congressional hearing, minced in his seat and evaded questions for hours on end Thursday. His name? Peter Strzok (pronounced “Struck” for the Democrats on the committee who kept mispronouncing it). The general impression from his testimony? What a complete weirdo. It is astonishing that someone so strange, supercilious and seemingly evil reached so high a position in law enforcement.
As I tweeted a few weeks ago, I’d have a lot more confidence in Mueller if the people telling me about his probity and character weren’t the same people who told me that about Comey. I have to wonder how many other Strzoks, Pages, Ohrs, McCabes et al are at the agency. I think it needs a thorough housecleaning.
[Bumped]
Climate And Science
A weekly link roundup from Judith Curry.
Bad Radio Engineering
Wow, some engineer is really screwing the pooch at AM 1290 in West Palm Beach (the EIB station). Minutes and minutes of dual programming then minutes of dead air. At the top of the hour, news came on doubled up with something else.