I can’t imagine what is going through the minds of people who take pictures of their junk at all, let alone send it across the ether.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Bob Farquhar
Monte Morin has a great piece on him and the ISEE-3 reboot.
SpaceX And Orbcomm
The launch delays are costing money. Note this, though:
Commercial satellite fleet operators have said that with a price differential so large — more than 50 percent in this case — they can absorb the cost of even lengthy SpaceX delays without much trouble.
They’re changing the rules.
NASA Mission Planning
If you want to see how ludicrous SLS is, look at this chart.
That is not a spacefaring civilization.
The Great Walls Of The Midwest
Would these stop tornadoes? And would they be worth the money?
Lunar Gravity
A beautiful map of the field, courtesy of the late GRAIL satellites.
Here Be Dragons
Stewart Money has a book out on the history of SpaceX.
Today’s Stupid Space House Hearing
Jeff Foust has a report.
[Update a few minutes later]
Frank Morring on why we explore space.
This all misses the real point, which is that exploration is a means to an end. As long as we imagine it’s just a search for knowledge, we can’t possibly justify the insane amount of money (for so little activity) that NASA spends on human spaceflight.
Safe Is Not An Option
The Nook version is now available. The last frontier is iTunes, which is a PITA for me because Apple insists on my having an Apple device to set up an account and upload it to their store. I think I can set up an iTunes account if I fire up my Windows laptop, but not sure how to do the book upload.
The Apollo Model
It’s long past time to abandon it.
It’s hard to do, though. Many just can’t imagine any other way to do human spaceflight. And of course, those in Congress don’t want to lose all their opportunities for graft.