Self defence
I am certain it comes as no surprise to Samizdata readers that States are interested in penetrating your computers and stealing private communications without bothering about the legal niceties of...
View ArticleMarco Rubio just struck out
As time goes on we learn more about the possible GOP candidates and which ones might be satisfactory to libertarians. It appears that Marco Rubio is not going to be amongst that number if this report...
View ArticleAge of Adaline
Friday night is usually my movie night out here in the desert and there was nothing in particular I really wanted to see. After perusing the options, I settled for ‘Age of Adaline‘, the story of a...
View ArticleIn the spirit of the Guardian…
I think it is safe to say that the first Social Justice Warrior to be spaced has already been born. (For non-spacers, that means “tossed out of the airlock… without a space suit.”)
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Now it can be told…
As I am now part of the core engineering team on a spaceship, I am much more limited in what I can say on certain subjects than I was as a consultant assisting on early stage projects in the previous...
View ArticleThe Police State tentacles are everywhere
Yesterday a medical doctor friend told me that these days you have to show ID and sign for laboratory glassware. You may perhaps even be asked why you need it. When I was a kid, you picked up an...
View ArticleThe view from inside a government box
This article leaves me speechless. How could anyone capable of putting words together in a sentence about space hardware put forth a premise that is “not even wrong”. It is not even from the same...
View ArticleKardeshev 1.5?
I am sure most of you have by now heard at least a garbled version of the discovery of a very unusual object in the skies, a possible alien mega-structure. I have not been following the mass media but...
View ArticleIt is not just the UK…
The UK has Brexit, an event that Perry, Adriana, Brian, I and the rest of the Samizdata conspirators would have only dreamed of when this publication was founded all those years ago. To say it would...
View ArticleThe progress of social programs and the debt
1960’s: Lets eliminate everything bad. We can go to the moon so why not end poverty! “Yes, do it.” 1970’s: Well, it doesn’t look so easy. We’ll have to spend more money. “Well, okay.” 1980’s: It is...
View Article2018 New Space predictions, Part I: How did we do last year?
Around this time last year, I was discussing / arguing with another aerospace engineer on the sort of topic which tends to come to mind at the New Year. What could we expect in our industry over the...
View Article2018 New Space predictions, Part II: The 2018 list
So… now it is time to unveil the predictions of Amon and Weathers for 2018. Doug Weathers and I changed the format a little this year. If one or the other or even both of us thought an event is iffy...
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