Media headline: “Climate Change Causing Billions Of Taxpayer Dollars In Disaster Relief.”
Accurate headline: “Cost Of Dealing With Weather Much Less Than Decarbonization.”
Superaccurate GPS
Coming to a smartphone near you. One-foot accuracy would be very useful in LEO (BTW, one concept I heard at the Space Settlment Summit last week was a concept for extending existing GPS to cislunar space with just a few additional birds). My question is: what velocities can it handle?
A New Space Policy
…for the Trump administration. I’ve just started to skim it.
War On Women
I wrote about the Left’s long-time misogyny over five years ago, but in light of the latest revelations about Hollywood scumbags, it’s just as relevant today.
[Update a few minutes later]
Glenn Reynolds has some related links.
Raptor
The USAF is partially (Or totally? Who knows?) funding SpaceX to develop it.
I have no problem with this; it’s a much better use of taxpayer funds than AR1.
Still Busy
We have relatives visiting this coming week, and are doing things to clean up and organize the house that we’ve been putting off for months/years. Meanwhile, go see how pathetically Tom Stafford is stuck in the 60s. #Apolloism
Off The Air
I was at the Space Settlement Summit all day yesterday, and will be all day today as well, with a non-functioning laptop. I will be tweeting occasionally from my phone, however, and I’ll probably have some overall thoughts on the event tomorrow.
In Search Of A Library
Bob Zimmerman has a familiar problem, one that I and many friends do (Leonard David’s is particularly acute, after half a century of space reporting). My own archives, such as they are, go back almost four decades.
Forget Mars
A planetary scientist who would prefer to live on Titan.
As usual, destinations are a secondary issue. What’s important is the ability to affordably get wherever we want in the solar system. Elon is at least paying lip service to that now.
A Minimoon
NASA has confirmed the existence of another “moon” around earth. It’s a captured asteroid (and this happens occasionally). This seems like a very near-earth object. I wonder what its composition is?