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“A revival of ultrafast supersonic passenger jet travel is inching closer to...
Boom: Will the fake photos of the Boom Supersonic XB-1 ever get real? Will I live long enough to photo Concorde 2.0 over London? It’s starting to look like they and I might. How noisy will it be? I...
View ArticleElon Musk’s rockets are cheap because he wants them to be cheap
I have had this article open (see this) for quite a while, and I now see that it dates back to January 2012. What a difference it makes when you can dig up old articles like this. I learned a lot from...
View ArticleSplashdown for SpaceX
John Stossel: 2 Americans just landed safely after spending 2 months in space. 11 years ago, an Obama committee concluded that would take 12 years and cost $26 billion. Elon Musk did it in 6 years– for...
View ArticleStarlink
CNBC: SpaceX is manufacturing 120 Starlink internet satellites per month. Says Instapundit’s Stephen Green: Wow. And it does sound pretty exciting. High speed internet connections in hitherto...
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Quota photo of a sign about Croydon Spaceport
Whatever that is. Busy day ahead. That to-do list (see previous posting) is already demanding that I go off and do various things, which leaves little time for blogging now. So, quota photo time, and...
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This is the damage a tiny speck of space debris can do at 15,000 mph
This: I did a piece a while back for Samizdata about that foolish equation people sometimes still make between “the age of exploration” that happened about five hundred years ago, when Europe, until...
View ArticleFour of BrianMicklethwaitsNewBlog dot com’s greatest hits
Every so often, this blog attracts a flurry of attention from some mysterious other place that I am typically not clever enough to identify, and today this is happening again. The posting that is today...
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A gallery of Michael Jennings photos
For the last few weeks, a strange glitch has been afflicting this blog, involving spacing. If I stick up just the one photo, stretching all the way across the width of the blog’s column of text, all is...
View ArticleMonkey plays pong just by thinking about it
Earlier today I talked with my friend Bruno, who told me about an unusual monkey. Unusual to me, anyway. This monkey had electrodes inserted into his brain, and then they got him to play a favourite...
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Why we have narcissistic rich guys
I like this: The job of billionaires is to live a better life, and while doing that pay for it to go from being an expensive luxury to a cheap and universal commonplace. People moan about “trickle...
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