Phil Metzger has published a couple papers on regolith erosion from landers, here and here. It’s an “even worse problem than previously believed.”
“Judge And Justice”
A review of an important documentary on the vile Kavanaugh media witch trial.
The Ghouls Of Gaza
Thoughts on the latest discovery of Hamas atrocity. The Biden administration’s actions have been shameful, because apparently it is shameless.
Commercial Crew History
How it dodged a bullet in getting off the ground.
Hunter Biden
Why you’re going to be hearing a lot more about him soon.
Glenn Loury
What he taught me.
Hubble Trouble
An interesting article (from NPR!) about the internal controversy at NASA over a private rescue mission. No doubt there is some politics in play within the astronaut office.
The Pace Of Vulcan Rockets
The Air Force is growing concerned.
I suspect that ULA has been so focused on competing against SpaceX on price that it’s ignored the need to compete on tempo. The fact that SpaceX reuses its boosters means that its launch cadence is not constrained by manufacturing capacity. I think that ULA made a bad decision in assuming that launch rates would not be dramatically increasing when doing its cost/benefit analysis on reusability.
Campus Anti-Semitism
It’s nothing new.
In addition, the New York Times covered for both Hitler and Stalin.
[Update a while later]
Campus protesters have experienced some kind of psychiatric break.
It certainly appears that way. They are demonstrably nuts.
[Thursday-morning update]
The real cause of anti-Semitism on campus.
And a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution says that the Red Guards are back.
Mars Sample Return
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.