Tag: elon musk
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A six-step plan for keeping Space Command in Colorado | Vince Bzdek
Two short months and a lifetime ago, U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs celebrated its fifth birthday after expanding from “a rag-tag band of about 100 people” when it was reestablished in 2019 to a fully operational headquarters employing 1,700 people today. This week, the Command looks to be at risk of interrupting operations and…
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2024 presidential election retrospectives | Cronin and Loevy
Former President Donald Trump enjoyed an impressive comeback victory on Election Day last Tuesday. Virtually all the pollsters had predicted the closest of elections, yet they once again underestimated Trump’s support from the voters. Trump won the national popular vote, which was a first for him. His was the first Republican win of the popular…
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Provocative new reads about predictions and probabilities | Tom Cronin
“The Singularity is Nearer When We Merge with AI,” by Ray Kurzweil (Viking) “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything,” by Nate Silver (Penguin) What happens when you read back-to-back books by a quirky celebrity computer scientist and a quirky celebrity statistician/gambler? You’re tempted to consider bigger and riskier bets, and you ask difficult questions about what…
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Presidential primaries in retrospect: Dullest and least exciting in memory | Cronin and Loevy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Our imperfect presidential primary system has given us two imperfect national party nominees for president. Former President Donald Trump won 14 of 15 primaries on Super Tuesday and a handful more this week. Nikki Haley won Vermont and District of Columbia and then suspended her…
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Presidential primaries in retrospect: Dullest and least exciting in memory | Cronin and Loevy
Our imperfect presidential primary system has given us two imperfect national party nominees for president. Former President Donald Trump won 14 of 15 primaries on Super Tuesday and a handful more this week. Nikki Haley won Vermont and District of Columbia and then suspended her campaign. President Joe Biden won easily everywhere. These were the…
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Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next. | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sixty years and two months after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their guests became the first private passengers to reach space aboard private rocket ships, and Bezos’s rocket just happened to be dubbed the New Shepard.…
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Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next. | Vince Bzdek
Sixty years and two months after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their guests became the first private passengers to reach space aboard private rocket ships, and Bezos’s rocket just happened to be dubbed the New Shepard. The touchdowns of Bezos’s rocket last week and Shepard’s six…