ED meds can be therapeutic for cardiovascular health.
I wonder if it would work for women as well? There’s probably insufficient data, but I imagine it would. And surely it wouldn’t hurt their sex life.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Developing Space
In which I am interviewed by SpaceTech Gulf.
[Late-morning update]
How Starship will change humanity.
It’s a similar theme to my piece from a couple years ago.
Metal-Ceramic Alloys
This seems like a pretty big materials breakthrough.
Fascism Works
A thread:
The Inhumanity Of The Green Agenda
They hate humanity, and they’ll do whatever they can to prevent the infection from spreading into the solar system.
Engineering By Management
Scott Adams made a good living poking fun at stories like this.
Yes, Get Out Of Your Seat
The hed of this op-ed is misleading. No, you shouldn’t stand as soon as the plane lands; wait until you’ve arrived at the gate. But yes, if you’re on the aisle, you should be preparing yourself and helping others prepare to deplane, not sit in your seat until it’s time for you to actually move. I don’t understand the people who think that we should be slowed down by telling people to remain seated.
The End Of The Silicon Valley Dream
Reflections from Joel Kotkin.
Another Delay
Might be weather. That pushes it to at least Friday.
[Wednesday-evening update]
Yes, as noted in comments, apparently the launch is back on for tomorrow morning. Elon must have really wanted to do it on 4/20.
[Bumped]
[Late-evening update]
[Thursday-morning update]
Well, the excitement happened. It will be interesting to see the post mortem, but just getting off the pad and through max-Q were major milestones for the first flight of such a beast.
[Afternoon update]
Here‘s Eric Berger’s take.
And more thoughts from Blake Powers.
Marina Koren’s story on Elon’s explosive day.
Starship Is Still Not Understood
I missed this the first time around, about a year and a half ago, but it parallels many of the points that I made in my piece at The New Atlantis about the same time.
[Update late morning]
Airbus seems to be getting serious about space. I don’t see how the centrifuge helps all that much, though. The radius is too small for significant gravity, though it would help a lot to put the plumbing in it.