It was even worse than we knew.
And yes, the “suicide” does look very suspicious. After reading this, there is little I’d put past these “leaders.”
[Evening update]
On the other hand, how can a lot of these stories about wheels falling off, or engine parts falling off, or engines catching fire, be attributed to Boeing? They don’t build the engines. These kinds of things have to be attributed to the operator. Which says that the whole industry is fucked, probably because DEI.
Not much new to those who have been following it, but Irene Klotz has a nice description of the flight.
Will they beat us back?
They certainly won’t have a problem beating NASA back, given its political constraints. I do think that a private effort could beat them.
With anniversaries coming up, Doug Messier reports on Virgin Galactic’s “progress.”
I weep when I think what could have been done with those hundreds of millions if they hadn’t been wasted on such a misbegotten concept.
A thoughtful essay at The New Atlantis (in which, in the next issue, I’ll have a review of Zubrin’s new book on Mars).
The LCS fiasco is just a symptom of a much larger problem, which probably infects the entire U.S. military, and no one is being held accountable. It’s feeling a lot like 1939, and people are going to die unnecessarily, if we can even win the war.
Yes.
Various factions of the DoD are fighting over it.
This is great, considering that a few years ago none of them wanted anything to do with it.
RIP.
[Friday-morning update]
Reflections from Noah Smith.
[Monday-morning update]
Glenn Reynolds remembers.
[Bumped]
Thoughts on the various forms of complexity in evaluating it.