Bob Zubrin says we need a purpose-driven space program.
Not enough opportunities for graft in that.
California
…has the worst quality of life in the nation. Yes, if you’re not rich, and/or a current homeowner, you’re screwed.
Mars And SLS
I really find Chris Carberry’s op-ed on SLS incomprehensible. Oh, I don’t mean I don’t understand it, it just seems disconnected with reality, and the interests of anyone seriously interested in seeing humans go to Mars. He speaks about SLS as thought it has kind of reality, and actual utility. To me, a sane Mars organization would be screaming bloody murder at the waste of money to the detriment of hardware needed to actually get to Mars.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Thoughts on the ever-receding SLS, from Bob Zimmerman.
[Bumped]
The Schiff Obstruction
The Democrats are increasingly flailing.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Russian colluded massively With Democrats.
And between Trump and Obama, who is/was tougher on Russia? Hey, he did want to pass the message on to Vlad that after the election, he’d be “more flexible.”
Space Colonies
This idiotic sort of thing is what my current project, to make the international legal environment more friendly to space development and settlement, partially about.
Acculturating
It’s hard. Very hard.
If you don’t read Sarah Hoyt every day, you should.
The Voting Age
Jim Treacher has a modest proposal.
On Twitter the other day, I proposed lowering it to minus nine months, to increase the pro-life vote.
The Second Amendment
We need it more than ever.
Yup. The current situation is approaching exactly what the Founders feared.
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Steyn: A total failure of the State.
That assumes, of course, that this wasn’t exactly what the State intended.
[Update a few minutes later]
Yes, it would appear that “liberals” don’t want to stop school shootings.
The Democrats’ Memo
It’s an extended straw man.
More from Sara Carter, who has been all over this story from the beginning.
Lost In Space
No, literally (I hate that as a title of a space article or op-ed). They’re apparently doing a reboot. I thought the show was stupid as a kid, but as my old roommate Alan Katz (and Glenn Reynolds) noted, the first season, which I missed as a kid, was actually quite dark and interesting, before it devolved into camp with the robot flailing its arms around shouting “Danger, Will Robinson.” It could be interesting. But then, I think between acclaim of The Expanse and everything exciting happening in real spaceflight, it could be new golden age for good space-based hard science fiction, in all venues.