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Category Archives: Business
Sierra Nevada
Sirangelo showing video of latest SS2 flight. Exhaust plume from hybrid rocket still looks like a tire fire. They did put it out, though.
Falcon Launch Delay
Garrett Reisman just announced that they had to scrub their static test firing today, so this weekend’s launch will be delayed (maybe Tuesday, same day as next OSC launch).
Blue Origin
Looking for a coastal launch site for orbital flight. Orbital vehicle is two stage, with first stage reusable, flyback vertical landing (like SpaceX).
Developing 100,000 lbf thrust lox/hydrogen engine. Deep throttle capability to allow vertical landing.
Xenon
At lunch at #AIAASpace2013, NASA is proposing ten tons of it for propellant for the asteroid mission. World production is about a ton per year.
The Pension Crisis
I think that most of the nation’s fiscal problems are. Something that can’t go on, won’t.
The Obama Economy
Five years on, he can’t blame it on the financial crisis any more. He owns it. As do the low-info underemployed fools who voted to re-elect him.
[Update a couple minutes later]
“This was a very bad jobs report.”
Fred Pohl
Rest in peace.
He wrote great fiction, but his economics was short sighted.
In general, SF writers aren’t that great at economics — (too) many of them are, after all, leftists, particularly the New Wave types. Heinlein was one of the few who generally got it right.
A “Living Wage”
What an economically stupid idea. Particularly if you think that Washington can come up with one, one-size-fits-all, for the entire country, from Omaha to New York City.
The STEM “Crisis”
“If there was really a STEM labor market crisis, you’d be seeing very different behaviors from companies,” notes Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in New York state. “You wouldn’t see companies cutting their retirement contributions, or hiring new workers and giving them worse benefits packages. Instead you would see signing bonuses, you’d see wage increases. You would see these companies really training their incumbent workers.”
“None of those things are observable,” Hira says. “In fact, they’re operating in the opposite way.”
And even if there was, the notion that NASA would help it is ludicrous. Particularly if anyone thinks it’s going to do so by building rockets to nowhere.