Kim Stanley Robinson says they’re impossible.
I call Clarke’s Law about distinguished scientists, even though he’s just a fiction writer.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Bill Nye
I’m completely unsurprised that he is clueless about the purpose of NASCAR. Does he really think that people would come to watch Prius’s toottling around the track?
The Martian As A Comedy
I didn’t think of the movie as one, but I did almost laugh out loud at parts of the book.
The Democrats
How they lost the war for staying power.
They mistook the popularity of the (bewildering, and invisible to me) charisma of Obama for the power of their (lack of) ideas.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Barack Obama ain’t nobody special.
The Donald Meets Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
He’s going through all the stages of grief over his polling, though not necessarily in the right order.
Bill Keith
We’ve lost a musical legend. RIP
The Martian As Time Travel
It takes us back to our society half a century ago.
As I’ve said repeatedly, the part of the film that requires the most suspension of disbelief is that NASA would ever be sufficiently audacious and cost effective to send someone to Mars.
Football Physics
I’ve been proposing this for years. You could also put sensors in the feet and knees to determine in-bounds and when a player does down.
Milo Yiannopoulos
His terrifying allure. An interesting story by one of his feminist “adversaries.”