RIP?
I spent years tiling this ship. Drilling composites and making every detail perfect. Management was a disaster and even tried to convince us they were on par with SpaceX. Now that I work on starship comments like that sound even more childish than before. Rip chaser. Never to be. https://t.co/4Lk7ta8L8f
— ajaxthegreat (@AlexanderJ91756) September 26, 2025
That’s a question that I’ve been asking about Blue Origin for over two decades. I hope they’ve finally decided it’s the latter.
Thoughts on the not-to-be-hoped-for civil war:
Antifa wants an insurrection leading to a legitimacy collapse and a communist/left-anarchist revolution. But there's a very basic question: where's it going to find the troops, and how's it going to train them?
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 25, 2025
In one of my previous analysis posts I identified three overlapping…
Are we at a turning point?
We can hope.
Sorry, I’ve been slammed with getting corporate taxes done, and I’m going down to Chapman University this afternoon to talk to Joel Kotkin’s class on tech and reindustrialization issues.
Why they will be built in space:
Here's an argument why data centers will be built in space instead of on the ground. Projected by 2040, $700B/year of costs due to environmental, regulatory, and delay costs for building data centers on Earth. Compare this to decreasing launch costs (not shown here) to predict…
— Phil Metzger (@DrPhiltill) September 10, 2025
Eric Berger has the latest. Killing EUS would also eliminate the need for ML-2. It could be that we’ll have to continue wasting money on the SLS core and Orion for a while, but it would free up some funds to actually get back to the Moon soon.
Though written by a woman (and a friend), and recommended by another woman (and another friend) this looks like a good book to get boys back to reading.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Laura returns the favor.
James Bennett is raising funds to write an important book.