I’d have never put a dime into this company.
[Update a while later]
In comments, some people seem to think that this is reflective of a fundamental problem with suborbital tourism. It is not. It was a problem of management and design decisions. There is a market for suborbital tourism, but neither of the only two companies offering it are properly tapping it. It’s tragic that XCOR couldn’t survive. It only needed a small fraction of the money that’s been wasted on Virgin Galactic.
I had been unaware of this. It sounds potentially disastrous for startups in general, but certainly space startups.
…is the power to destroy. There is no such thing as an “independent” agency, in terms of its being part of the executive branch, and under the control of the president.
Reflections on the recent global societal disaster. And unfortunately, there will be no apologies, or consequences.
[Monday morning update]
[Bumped]
California’s renewable energy policy needs a reality check.
Yes. Yes it does.
My mind is boggled at how Boeing could spend that much money on a project, and still not having it fly. I wonder if the cost-plus culture infected the program?
It goes back over a century. And ObamaCare didn’t address it, and just made it worse.
…is the crack cocaine of the digital age.
Climate change, the idea that humankind is having a negative impact on the planet, and what’s more that there will be an extinction-level event if we do not radically change our behaviour, has become one of the most feverishly guarded orthodoxies of our age. You query it at your peril. It is one of the few beliefs for which an entire new grammar of censorship has been created to protect it from interrogation.
Yes.
We live in dark times for relationships.