…is not understood.
A long, but thorough defense from Casey Handmer.
Category Archives: Economics
“Trust The Experts”
Why it’s always bad advice. Good for Francis Collins for his honesty, though it’s far too belated.
AIAA SciTech
As you can see in the left sidebar, I’m planning to attend next month in Orlando. They used to be in San Diego, and I haven’t been to one since before the pandemic. ASCEND was a huge upgrade over their previous annual space conference, and I’m curious to see how much SciTech has changed in the past few years.
As you can see from the program, it has a wide variety of papers on not just space (my primary interest, as always), but aviation as well. The number of simultaneous topics is overwhelming (as it has been in the past), but I’ll be interested primarily in sessions on space resources, space assembly and servicing, life support for larger facilities, nuclear propulsion (both electric and thermal), human logistics in space and space medicine, advances in additive manufacturing, AI applications and, of course space policy. I’ll also be discussing my own participation in the Cislunar Ecosystem Task Force, which was first announced at this event a year ago.
I don’t know if there will be any news broken there, but if there is, I’ll be blogging about it here. I won’t be attending Friday, because I have to be in DC. But I will be there Monday through Thursday, and I hope I’ll see some of you there.
Civil War Two
Sobering thoughts from Larry Correia.
Another “City On Mars” Review
Wising Up
Branson isn’t going to pour any more of his own money into that hole in the sky he started almost two decades ago.
To be fair, though, most of the money that went into it was other (foolish) peoples’. It never made any business sense given how much they were putting into it.
Unshocking News Of The Day
GAO says that Artemis is not going to happen on schedule.
Why People Think The Economy Sucks
I rarely eat fast food except when traveling. And I never have it delivered. I think that a lot of people who are paying other people to cook for them and deliver the food can’t really afford it.
The Counterrevolution Continues
Not in just Italy, but the Dutch are fighting back against the climate/globalist lunacy.
[Update a few minutes later]
Can Europe become western again?
Let’s have some actual “Truthsgiving” to celebrate the holiday.
Conquest without morality was the rule of all peoples and nations until a couple of hundred years ago. Only in the very recent past has morality become a major consideration in warfare.
And the people most responsible for adding moral considerations to the law of conquest were…Europeans.
People pushing the Victim Narrative pretend that their ancestors were morally superior to their conquerors. In fact, they were not. Their ancestors conquered everyone they could conquer. The Commanche Empire conquered other Indian tribes, which is why Indian tribes allied with American government to fight the Commanches.
If Indians had advanced shipbuilding, navigation, and steel-working, they would have conquered Europe.
Native Americans’ ancestors did not refuse to do this because they were more moral. They didn’t do it because they simply couldn’t do it. They were not superior in morality; they were simply inferior in technology.
And all of this endless bullshit whining about generations-old conquests is just a nasty cope.
You’ve heard of “Victor’s Justice,” in which the winner of a war can vindictively set the terms for peace…? Well we live now in an age of Loser’s Justice, when the losers of the war can, somehow, endlessly torment the great-great-great-granchildren of the winners of their ancestors having won in war.
And we’re sick of it, and we’re done with it. We never point this out, because we don’t want to upset people who are clearly insecure about their ancestors’ failures. Who wants to pick on the fat kid?
We need to decolonize academia, big business, and Hollywood, of leftist insanity.
[Friday-morning update]
Revamp education to end the cultural rot.
[Afternoon update]
A brief history of settler/colonialism. TL;DR: Everyone did it.
Against Safetyism
Is it a bigger threat than the ones it’s supposed to prevent?
They don’t mention space, but I think that safetyism lies at the heart of Kelly’s and Zach’s concerns.