Both Spengler and Roger Simon think he got it right with Putin.
[Wednesday afternoon update]
More thoughts from Roger Kimball.
[Bumped]
I’ll Have a Bloody Tongue
I scored a ticket to the VIP gala at KSC Saturday night, to celebrate the 49th anniversary of the first moon landing. I just found out I’ll be seated at a front table with commercial-spaceflight basher Walt Cunningham.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
She’s the best thing to happen to Republicans all year.
She really isn’t very bright.
[Late-afternoon update]
She calls for the occupation of airports.
Yes, please.
The Need To Settle Mars
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.”