A history, and thoughts on NASA’s needed transition, from Edgar Zapata.
Convenient BS
The legacy of Al Gore’s religious polemic, twenty years on.
He, I think more than anyone, was responsible for the politicization of science.
Newsom Is Gruesome
With The Success (So Far) Of Artemis 2
An Open Letter To Western Europe
…from Eric Raymond.
Hello, Europeans. The first thing you need to understand about the rant I'm about to utter is that I'm not MAGA, not a Trumpite, but a libertarian who has in the past nevertheless been strongly supportive of US military presence overseas. Because I want the wars that defend this…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) April 4, 2026
They have a choice. Our best allies in Europe right now are Poland, Finland, and the Baltics.
Gavin Newsom’s Empire Of Fraud
Whatever amount they estimate, I’m sure it’s more. I wonder if this torpedoes his chances at the presidency?
And it’s not just California.
The Current Generation And Space
I've written about this extensively over the years (this, depressingly, is from almost a decade ago: https://t.co/4mnbzkPsvN), but the reason we didn't continue on from Apollo was that we did it the wrong way, the most expensive possible way, because of the "end of the decade"… https://t.co/BjXuPmKvgk
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 2, 2026
Birthright Citizenship
Trump is right.
How Could I Have Been So Foolish?
I've come to realize today, on the dawn of our first return to the Moon in over half a century, how wrong I've been about space policy for the past decades. Seeing the majestic Space Launch System with its mighty SRBs sitting on the pad now, poised to once again take men to the…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 1, 2026
“There Is No Plan”
Some thoughts for the idiots who actually believe this.