Business: While Richard Branson saw the space age as a cheap holiday for billionaires, Elon Musk, the inventor of Pay Pal, saw it as a way to cut itself right into the industrial complex with its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Excited: How about the Air Force allowing Space X to bid on Air Force launch business. The price of a launce has been $160M, Elon says he can do it for $100M. Wow.
Recorded: IT IS TUESDAY… here come the new releases and I am so ecited I might actually put A$AP Riocky away for a coupla days.
Live:Many years ago I was dating a girl at my office and we decided to go to Coney Island for Hotdogs during lunch. Far far can it be, right? The F Train was three blocks away. Three hours later… anyway, that’s why I am missing Mumford And Sons at MCU Park. Purity Ring are at the dreaded T5 and Robert Cray is at BB Kings.
Weather: Third day of drowning and cold, and worse, the weather has 30% chance of rain on Friday.
Elon said he could make an electric car that wasn’t just something the rich could afford. He couldn’t. Then he said, wait, I have a newer model in mind. And he still couldn’t do it. So he won’t make it cheaper for DoD. He just says so. But that’s OK; no one in the private sector makes ANYTHING cheaper for DoD. Always been that way. Elon knows where the money is. With the wealthy, or with military spending. As for Richard Branson and his rich people’s space tourism business. It blew up over the desert last year, taking his enthusiasm for it along in the death ride. The market for tickets to wealthy people who wouldn’t mind a 50/50 chance at being blowed up in sub-orbit flight so they can see the grand curve of the earth in person just before they die is probably nil.