[Update a few minutes later]
On reading through it, this jumped out at me: “The brain strain of designing the car is tiny compared to the brain strain of designing the factory.”
What is more important about Starship is not the design of the vehicle, but the fact that he’s building a shipyard.
There may be less than previously thought.
That doesn’t mean, of course, that there isn’t enough to be very useful. After all, we used to think there was none at all.
Michael Lopez-Allegria says don’t let it expire.
The third part of a series of essays by Sam Hammond.
Yeah, I’m shocked, too.
A long but interesting discourse on the current state of men and women.
The company’s first test flight is coming soon in Mojave. I don’t get this, though: “Aviation startup Boom Technology’s XB-1 demonstrator jet has moved from a hangar in Centennial, Colorado, to the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.”
How did it “move”? I can’t imagine how it could have been transported on the ground, unless it was in pieces. That implies that it must have self ferried, so it’s already has its first flight. I guess this will be the first supersonic flight.
[Afternoon update]
Sorry, I put in the link.
…need to be more like gas stations.
They also need affordable reliable electricity, and to be as ubiquitous as gas stations, if electric cars are ever going to be a serious thing. I know a lot of people with Teslas, but they admit that they’re not for road trips.
Peter Hague responds to a dumb polemic at Quillette.
One of the foundational problems of space-policy discussions is the apparent inability of many to distinguish between space exploration, and space settlement.