The impossibility of his physique. I’ve discussed this before (thirteen years ago. Yikes!). This piece seems to ignore the thermal issues. I don’t think just exhaling flames would be sufficient to get rid of the heat.
Death In Space
The ethics of dealing with astronauts’ bodies.
That’s not an issue I address in the book. Maybe I should.
The American Physical Society
…beclowns itself again on climate:
Well, their paragraph on Climate Science is a rather astonishing take on the APS Workshop. Their paragraph on Climate Change seems to come from the Guardian. Their statement on Climate Action reiterates their rather crazy statement in 2007
Apart from the issue that no one on the POPA seems to understand any of these issues beyond a superficial level (after Koonin and Rosner departed from the POPA), and that their statements are naive and unprofessional, here is my real problem with this. This is an egregious misuse of the expertise of the APS. Their alleged understanding of issues like spectroscopy and fluid dynamics are not of any direct relevance to the issues they write about in this statement. The statement is an embarrassment to the APS.
Either reform is required, or an alternate organization.
Commercial Spaceships
Forbes has a gallery.
Technically, of course, the balloon isn’t a “spaceship.”
The Secret Republicans
As with any culture dominated by Leftists, it’s a chilling atmosphere.
California And Water
What almost everyone one gets wrong about California’s water “problem.” But as is almost always the case, it also completely misses the point that there is no market for water here; it is allocated almost completely by politics.
[Update late morning]
Fight the drought: End recycling?
California is in a huge mess of its own making.
The “Road To Mars”
Kicking the can down it. Anyone who is waiting for NASA to send anyone to Mars is going to be very disappointed.
Peter Thiel
A conversation with Tyler Cowen, on the future of innovation, life extension and God.
Blue Origin
They’ve completed acceptance tests for their new suborbital LOX/hydrogen engine. Hope this means they start flying again soon.
Take A Bow, Media!
You’re crushing it:
Yes, it was definitely the rightwing outlets calling for justice for Trayvon. National Review was first on the ground in Missouri, chanting “hands up, don’t shoot” with the protesters. Doesn’t she realize that by pointing to these examples, she’s disproving her point? That they were almost exactly like Jackie’s case: prettied up falsehoods designed to make the case for larger structural reforms? “Oh, sure, Trayvon had some run-ins with the law and clearly attacked Zimmerman, but this is about larger problems.” “Oh, sure, Mike Brown had literally just committed a strong arm robbery and was attacking a cop rather than surrendering to him, but this is about larger problems.” “Oh, sure, Jackie is a liar and a fraud, but this is about larger problems.” The right didn’t invent these people. The right didn’t bring them to light. I bet she also thinks it was also the right that tried to turn Deamonte Driver into a cause célèbre.
It’s almost like the narrative must take precedent over the truth, or something.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Yup, “Left sticks to narratives, evidence be damned.”
[Update a while later]
Rolling Stone can’t even apologize right.
Time to start accusing the media of “rollingstoning” every time they pull something like this.