The Oxford publication PNAS NEXUS is a good example of why Trumpists are trying to control academia. A recent article explained that annual state-level estimates of the undocumented resident population at each census date have been used to examine the consequences of including them in official apportionment data since 1980. If undocumented residents had beenContinue reading “The Next Big Lie”
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I Will Never Forget
Nobody will talk about this….and it makes me ashamed to be an American. I don’t know how it is not keeping other people awake at night either. I think about it every day. God damn them.
Revisiting Kathy in Control
The number of missions is starting to catch up with the probability of something going wrong with the abort system on the crew dragon. Tomorrow, they are taking crew to the ISS and it is starting to eat at me that 5 years ago I did a blog entry warning of the poorly designed abortContinue reading “Revisiting Kathy in Control”
A Nuclear Free Earth
Space Review comment: A Nuclear Thermal Rocket, for fantastic expense, roughly doubles the Isp of chemical rockets…using a source of energy literally one million times more powerful. Stan Ulam, who is sometimes credited with being the real father of the hydrogen bomb, considered this problem and realized it is difficult just keeping a chemical rocketContinue reading “A Nuclear Free Earth”
Killing Democracy
The central idea of democracy is the only reason anyone has anything is the rest of us (all of us) let them. The central problem of democracy is that a day of work paying a dollar to one person and a million dollars to another person inevitably leads to a very few owning everything andContinue reading “Killing Democracy”
Not-see Grok
This is so bizarre it is unbelievable.
SpaceNews Paywall
https://thespacereview.com/article/5020/1 The SpaceNews forum was always my “home” in regard to expressing my views on space exploration and colonization. Even though I was repeatedly banned, I always returned home. Now, along with the many other forums that have disappeared, it is gone. What is left is The Space Review…and in my view is not addressingContinue reading “SpaceNews Paywall”
America Party
“At the end of the day, the America Party will only split votes from one party, the Republican Party. This will cause Democrats to win and destroy the country.” America already ended on election night. Passing the big ugly is just more proof of that. What will come next, if autocracy is defeated, will beContinue reading “America Party”
Freedom is NOT Greed
“The only concrete proposal he provides is to get rid of billionaires—or, rather, their billions, suggesting that an individual’s net worth be capped at $500 million: “there’s no reason we as a society have to put up with the continued existence of billionaires,” who he argues help “fringe philosophies” thrive.” I have to absolutely andContinue reading “Freedom is NOT Greed”
Reverse Robin Hood
The largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in the history of America. Millions living precariously from paycheck to paycheck with any medical emergency a bankruptcy.
Ice on the Moon 