I don't know who Harrigan is, but he doesn't know much about pre-Columbian Texas. There WAS no horse mobility prior to the Spanish; the Spanish brought the horses. Also, South Texas was not a "thorny brushland" prior to the Spanish; the brushland came because of the effects of primarily wild cattle (what became the Longhorns), also brought by the Spanish.
I didn't even read the second paragraph; the first was so terrible.
The fact that it was written in 2019 is just embarrassing!
@JulieBorowski Wow! So few people seem to catch on.
Hilarious!
I know you do Children's books, but if you ever do an adult book (à la P.J. O'Rourke), I'll buy it.
@Amy787@TeslaBoomerMama One tiny nit: Galactic (within the galaxy) is larger than interstellar (outside the star system), so you got that order wrong, but yes, this is exactly right.
@johnkonrad Well, without insurance, wouldn't you be unable to enter some areas and harbors, and of course, you'd be personally liable for salvaging after an accident or storm or something, right?
@esrtweet I look at it as morons complaining that chefs don't have to go out and plow the field to grow their produce themselves like they had to 500 years ago.
No shit. That's what lets them be CHEFS, and not farmers that happen to cook.
@TeksEdge I used space bunny for the entire week it was available, and it was very good, but when I tried 3.1 flash, it appeared to have received a lobotomy.
The problems they see are penetration and bandwidth. To get penetration (into buildings) they are moving to 800MHz, Nextel's old spectrum, but that comes with a significant downside: bandwidth. Long wavelengths don't carry as much data. So to get the penetration into buildings, you need long wavelengths, but then you pay the bandwidth penalty.
I have little doubt that SPCX engineers have figured out a workaround, but I'll be very interested to see what it is. Certainly not something traditional radio engineers have considered, I'm sure, and it will likely seem obvious when they present it.