…that could become Alaska’s most valuable crop.
Interesting.
Category Archives: Business
Elon Musk Quotes
The most memorable ones from Ashlee Vance’s new book
Chicken Flu
This is, as Glenn says, a slow-mo animal-husbandry disaster.
But I wonder to what degree the birds’ immune systems are compromised because they’re on a vegetarian diet (to which they are not suited) because people are stupid?
Non-Military Affidavit
This law seems absurd.
We’re living in a Carl Hiaasen novel, with a crazy tenant who is destroying the property, and we want to evict her ASAP. Why is it incumbent on the landlord to prove a negative?
It seems like the first condition could be satisfied simply by pointing out that she’s been renting a home in Boca Raton, Florida, and there are no commutable military bases nearby.
Centimeter-Precision GPS
For good or ill, this technology is a game changer.
I think one application should be putting it in footballs for better spots and touchdown calls, and shoes to determine if someone stepped out of bounds.
Learning To Code
It’s never too late. Silicon Valley is going to have to get over its ageism.
3-D Printing In Space Using ISRU
That’s the topic of the talk coming up from Dennis Wingo at the Improving Space Operations Workshop. I follow him.
Pad Abort Test
Congratulations to SpaceX. From what I’m seeing on my Twitter feed, it went off without a hitch.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s the video.
[Update a while later]
Here‘s Michael Belfiore’s report.
Improving Space Operations
It’s Day 2 of the workshop. I’m giving a talk this morning on the need for resilient LEO infrastructure. I may post the briefing later. It’s substantially the same one I gave to NASA at HQ in December.
Lunar Operations
Interesting session at the Improving Space Ops Workshop in Pasadena. Heard a talk on long-lived stable lunar orbits with max eclipse time of four hours. Now listening to a proposed cubesat mission to map hydrogen at the lunar poles.