A harrowing expedition deep into Clinton country.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Thai Cuisine
The surprising reason there are so many Thai restaurants in America. Does any other country do this?
The Warning From Elon At SXSW
The first Mars visitors will probably die. Of course, we’re all going to die somewhere.
As I note in the book, it’s very unlikely that the Shackleton ad was real. If it had been published in a London broadsheet, it would have been spelled “honour.”
[Update a couple minutes later]
And per usual, a lot of ignorance and stupidity in comments over there.
Books In The Mail
I’ve got review copies of Tim Fernholz’s
How To Photograph A Rocket Launch
Beautiful imagery from Trevor, who I met at the launch.
Early Spaceports
Laura Montgomery has a new short story out.
#NeverTrump
Sarah Rumpf had a little tweetstorm the other day, and I largely agree with her. I continue to be happy she lost, and happy with many of the policy outcomes, but that doesn’t mean that I have to abandon my principles just because the clown in the White House apparently has none.
[Update a few minutes later]
Hillary Clinton, the woman in the high castle.
Mars And SLS
I really find Chris Carberry’s op-ed on SLS incomprehensible. Oh, I don’t mean I don’t understand it, it just seems disconnected with reality, and the interests of anyone seriously interested in seeing humans go to Mars. He speaks about SLS as thought it has kind of reality, and actual utility. To me, a sane Mars organization would be screaming bloody murder at the waste of money to the detriment of hardware needed to actually get to Mars.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Thoughts on the ever-receding SLS, from Bob Zimmerman.
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Space Colonies
This idiotic sort of thing is what my current project, to make the international legal environment more friendly to space development and settlement, partially about.
Acculturating
It’s hard. Very hard.
If you don’t read Sarah Hoyt every day, you should.