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Business, Economics, Health, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Technology and Society

The Foresight Meme Prize

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I saw this at Vision Weekend a week and a half ago.

Business, History, Technology and Society

122 Years

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The Wrights first flew powered aircraft at Kitty Hawk. I wrote about it on the hundredth anniversary. Unfortunately, both the Fox News piece and the TechCentralStation piece have succombed to link rot, but the National Review piece can be found in the Wayback Machine. I’ll do a search to see if I can find the other two. Doing three separate pieces in a single day on different aspects of the event was sort of a tour de force of my early blogging days.

[Update a few minutes later]

Well, Grok can’t find them. I should have made copies when they were still available. They may be lost to history.

[Late-afternoon update]

Thanks to commenter Douglas McKinnie, who dug them up. Here is the TechCentralStation piece, and this is the Fox News one. Note that, with regard to the latter, it was written shortly after SpaceX had been founded, but years before their first flight. But they followed my recommended path.

[Late-evening update]

Sorry, TCS link was bad, fixed now.

Administrative, General, Social Commentary, Space

Happy Thanksgiving

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The turkey is brined and in the oven, the dressing is ready to go in, and friends are coming over. I’m thankful for my health at an age I always figured as a kid would be OLD, friends in the space community, and the fact that things I’ve been hoping for for decades in space may finally be on the verge of happening. I’m also thankful that Jared gets another shot at running NASA. Finally, I’m thankful for my faithful readers, some of whom have become old friends, in both senses of the word, and some of whom we’ve lost over the years, but I always welcome new ones.

I’m less thankful for the Lions, but they’re not completely out of it yet.

Disport yourselves cordially in comments.