1 The Associated Press reports this morning that the U.S. Government has licensed the first private manned rocket:
April 8, 2004 | WASHINGTON (AP) –- — Burt Rutan wants affordable space travel for the public to be a reality within 10 years.
The government helped the aviation maverick take a big step toward that goal Wednesday by awarding his company the first license for a manned suborbital rocket.
We shouldn’t fool ourselves into mistaking the world as we experience it for the world as it really is.
The two are related, but the relationship is complicated, and it’s real work to figure it out.
@Popehat We're never going to change their hearts and minds if we treat this kind of conduct as a bad thing.
Oscar Hokeah's blog post: Debut Novel: CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21549394-debut-novel-calling-for-a-blanket-dance via @goodreads
“the…novelist, who seeks to confer or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply to prose fiction a licence, or rather a rule, from the adoption of which so many exquisite combinations of human feeling have resulted in the highest specimens of poetry.”
Jeff Bezos being lionized by rote, thoughtless coverage for going to space privately, decades after we did it first collectively, speaks of the ethos of an age: we've come to venerate what we do alone and sneer at what we do together.
Let's reverse that.
https://the.ink/p/what-we-do-alone-and-what-we-do-together
mckitterick
Woweeee! Who’d’a thunk that the Bushites would be forward-looking enough to allow privatization of space?
Gleeful,
Chris