That’s quite a hed and URL of this NYT story about private space facilities. I don’t know why it would require fifteen weeks of training, though. I think that’s more likely to put wealthy people off than the price tag.
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Alan Boyle (unsurprisingly) has a better story about it.
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I remember waking up on a school day to hear that he’d been shot out in California. That was a rough couple months, between it and the earlier MLK assassination. Fifty years on, a useful reminder that much of the history has been rewritten, and that both he and JFK were highly overrated. Teddy was scum, but apparently some Americans have need for royalty.
More thoughts from Ed Driscoll.
I’ve never paid much attention to him, but he seems to have been quite a character. Here’s a foreword he wrote to a book in defense of a guileless restaurant reviewer in flyover country.
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It’s always been such an alien concept to me.
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After a suicide, think of the survivors. and Ben Shapiro asks “How do we stop suicides?”
When I was a kid, one of my classmates’ father shot himself, and she discovered the body. I wondered just how terrible that would be.
Stephen Green has some thoughts on how to save it.
I’ve never been enough of a Star Wars fan to care whether it lives or dies. I would note, though, that $40M went a lot farther four decades ago than it would today.
Thoughts from Tim Fernholz on his space legacy.
No, Tor.com, GenCon isn’t racist: A fisking (from Larry Correia).
Click. You know you want to.
A visit to a s3x-robot factory, and the furniture of Catherine the Great. Latter definitely NSFW.
What’s the best new car you can get with one?
I wish I had the budget for some of these. One of my favorite features is that they’re much less likely to be stolen, since so many people don’t know how to drive them these days.
…commemorates a terrible anniversary.
There is a whole young generation that has no idea how immoral and corrupt Bill and Hillary Clinton are. Now that the ice has been broken with Chappaquidick, I’d like to see a mini-series on their crimes in the 90s that the media refused to cover at the time.
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