It looks like Taber and Jane haven’t given up yet. But they need to give up the SLS fantasy.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Space-Based Solar Power
I haven’t perused this article yet, but Japan has always taken the concept more seriously than we have (well, except briefly in the late seventies).
Rehabilitating Dan Rather
Really, Robert Redford? Really?
Here‘s what I had to say about the idiot Mary Mapes at the time:
…some of them (unlike you, apparently) were smart enough to call the fax number on the memo, and determine that it came from a Kinko’s in Texas. And though there was in fact analysis of what the documents actually said, which also helped torpedo them, it was in fact enough, Mary. It’s hard (perhaps impossible) to prove that a document is authentic, but it only takes one solid strike against its validity to show it to be inauthentic. And the fact that you still don’t understand that, or understand basic logic at all, is why you are now out of a job, and should never have had that job to begin with.
This isn’t merely “stuck on stupid.” This is turned all the way up to eleven on stupid.
It’s amazing that there are still fools who want to defend these people.
Don’t Learn To Code
Always good advice, in any field of endeavor. Sadly, it doesn’t happen that much in education these days.
I Want To Do Apollo Again
Nothing has changed in four years, except the name of the rocket.
Space Colonies
If You Take My Gun
“I will simply print another one.”
Clearly, the solution is to ban printers.
Firefly Alpha
Jeff Foust reports on the new launch company’s first planned product, and wonders if there’s a market for it.
Apollo 45th Anniversary
I talked to Buzz yesterday, and he’s promoting a huge social-media celebration of the event (the actual anniversary is a week from Sunday).
[Update a while later]
Remembering Bill Gaubatz
Jeff Foust has a piece up at The Space Review.