Reflections on an anniversary of Covid insanity.
Category Archives: Business
The Space Regulation Mess
Jeff Foust has a good description of the current state of play.
I think that this is bogus: ““The FAA, Department of Transportation, has been doing human spaceflight safety for many years…”
The FAA has never been responsible for human-spaceflight safety. In
fact, under the learning period, it has no legislative authority to do so. It has never done mission assurance for either satellites or participants. Does Rich DalBello really subscribe to this statement?
It also begs the question that any federal agency should be responsible for the safety of commercial spaceflight participants, either on the way to orbit, on the way back, or in space. The debate we should be having is not which agency, but whether the federal government should have responsibility at all at this point in time. I don’t see how Article VI requires it. I’m tempted to write an op-ed.
The Next Mania
I agree that it’s “climate change.”
Nature Rights
Utah has outlawed them. I’d like to see other states do this (it will never happen in California). In fact, I’d like to see some version of this in a codicil to the Outer Space Treaty.
Rebranding DEI
We knew this was going to happen, because racists gonna racist.
The Corruption Of Climate Science
“…it occurred because some of our most important institutions have let us down. The scientific peer review process has failed to catch obvious methodological errors in research papers. Leading scientific assessments have ignored conflicts of interest and adopted flawed methods. The major media has been selectively incurious as to the impact of big money in climate advocacy on climate science, assessments, and policy.”
Covid Didn’t Destroy Businesses And Lives
Governments tend to be much better at destroying than creating.
The Shrinking And Withering Middle Class
Yes, they are pissed.
[Update a while later]
Idiocracy has arrived.
Way ahead of schedule, but that what happens when you hand the educational system over to Marxists, and promote mediocrity.
Good News
DEI is DIEing.
End Of An Era
Less than half an hour to the final flight of the Delta family.
It was a workhorse for decades, but it’s now obsolete technology.