McCarthy has introduced a bill to extend the learning period.
It’s unlikely to pass before it expires week after next, but it will ultimately be extended, as it should be.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Latest Starship Delay
Ellie in Space has the story.
Six Thoughts On Elon Musk
[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.
Water On The Moon
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.
The Learning Period
Michael Lopez-Allegria says don’t let it expire.
AI and Leviathan
The third part of a series of essays by Sam Hammond.
GAO On SLS
The Green-Energy Inflation-Reduction Act
Yeah, I’m shocked, too.
Pixel Valhalla
A long but interesting discourse on the current state of men and women.
Boom
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.