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by bfe 12y ago
Given sama's enthusiasm for SpaceX, including as a "great example" in his blog post on the original new RFS, it seems unambitious for the RFS to mention space only in the context of robots and science.
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by bfe 12y ago
"What comes after programming languages?" Maybe somewhere in the direction Meteor and Light Table are heading?
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by bfe 12y ago
"That's mostly a policy problem, not a technology problem." That's the point though: the right insight might provide a technology solution to what everyone could only think of as a policy problem.
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Software Still Considered The Top F-35 Risk(aviationweek.com)
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Congress Threatens To Anchor Private Spaceflight With Extra Costs(reason.com)
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NASA is building a gorgeous new rocket it can't afford to fly(houstonchronicle.com)
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Elon Musk says lost multi-billion-$ contract when SpaceX didn’t hire official(qz.com)
18 points by bfe 12y ago|1 comments
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ULA defends Air Force's "block buy" rocket contract(spaceflightnow.com)
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Second flight of Falcon 9-R. 1000m, hover and land (with cows)(twitter.com)
2 points by bfe 12y ago|1 comments
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by bfe 12y ago
Landing is also a way less serious range safety concern than taking off because the rocket is essentially empty of fuel, rather than full of fuel.
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Emergence and quality(blog.fogus.me)
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by bfe 12y ago
Alan Boyle reports "first-stage reignited during descent and video was being sent back." https://twitter.com/b0yle/statuses/457248899464314880
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Elon Musk on Risky SpaceX Test: If It Works, It's the Biggest Thing We've Done(mashable.com)
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by bfe 12y ago
http://watsi.org
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The Gravity Field and Interior Structure of Enceladus(sciencemag.org)
1 points by bfe 13y ago|0 comments
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A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units(nature.com)
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by bfe 13y ago
But it's plausible as a fast, minimal entry point to electric vehicles in general, potentially attracting more capital to expand a proven product line, instead of trying to start with a car. I hope they're planning something like
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by bfe 13y ago
This sounds terrific, but it doesn't seem self-consistent between wanting companies with the scale of ambition of SpaceX and Tesla, but insisting on early momentum being critical and avoiding a big and expensive initial project. Tesla
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by bfe 13y ago
The term "rent-seeking" is accurate within the study of economics, but is bound not to be understood accurately by lots of non-economists. It resembles a competing, everyday meaning that is inocuous: buying a property or other ass
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by bfe 13y ago
Because it's all crony, no capitalism.
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by bfe 13y ago
Acting in favor of individual businesses is usually orthogonal or antithetical to acting in favor of the free market. Big businesses and the politicians who love them often rely heavily on erasing the perception of that difference.
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by bfe 13y ago
Just last week, Elon argued against a different legal monopoly, for national security launch services by the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture. [1] It's amazing how much building a new company in a supposedly free market requires arguing a
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by bfe 13y ago
The whole last section of the article on "seven virtuous habits" corresponds 1:1 without attribution to Steven Covey's "seven habits of highly effective people."
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by bfe 13y ago
"... This approach will discover new asteroids and improve our model of the solar system. It also opens opportunities for interesting algorithmic challenges, and the chance for a normal person to discover an asteroid. "As a progra
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by bfe 13y ago
Yes. It would take a president and/or members of Congress who cared enough about having an effective space program instead of using NASA as a pork delivery truck, to make the change. It would also be resisted at least as much by member
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by bfe 13y ago
> "An alternative is giving NASA independence in the model of the Federal Reserve, FDA, or NIH." This would almost certainly be the best way forward.
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by bfe 13y ago
I talked with a NASA engineer in 1998 who was working on the planned Europa probe, and hoping it would be funded enough to include a lander and not just a Europa orbiter. Sad to see how little progress we've made since then, and how ar
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by bfe 13y ago
This group, NCPPR, has a long history of not only denying climate science [1] by misconstruing their sources [2], but also defending the tobacco industry [3] and denying involvement in corruption scandals [4]. 1. http://www.natio
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by bfe 13y ago
He's already started marketing Tesla battery stacks with SolarCity panel systems.[1] The Gigafactory could drive major growth in that program. 1. http://www.solarcity.com/pressreleases/218/SolarCity-Introdu...
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by bfe 13y ago
Reminds me of what Neil Armstrong said, when asked what he would do if an engine on Eagle broke and there was no chance they could return from the Moon: "I would try to fix it."

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