It’s Huckster Season!

November 21, 2023

by Karl Denninger Market-Ticker.org

Otherwise known as CHRISTmas.

I had to chuckle at this one from X; the hubris of thinking that lifting lots of mass off the surface suddenly makes interplanetary life for humans (and other living things) reasonable is beyond crazy. I’ve gone through the reasons why this is silliness in the past so long as we’re using chemical reaction-mass rockets — and there’s no indication that anyone is about to breach that scientific barrier.

Of course the “consumer orgy” known as Black Friday is imminent as well; the flyers are already showing up and so is the promotion on anything that you might use as an “App” or if you’ve given some merchant your email address or your cell number.