Google engineers have given up on it:
At the start of RE
Anyone who understands basic math and physics knows that the notion it could replace fossil fuels was always insane.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Junk Nutrition Science
In the comics.
Who knew eating meat causes diabetes?
Shirtgate, And Common Decency
I agree with Jonah’s take. It was an inappropriate shirt, but we can’t let PC lefties dictate what we should be outraged about.
The Inuit
How adapted to fat are they? Carbs can be literally deadly to them.
Climate Grubering
Why yes, yes, it is a good phrase.
E. Coli And Radiation
If this is valid, it would have application not to just life extension, but to space travel as well.
Professor Happer
An interview with a climate skeptic.
Interstellar
It is a rejection of climate-change hysteria.
We may work up the gumption to go see it this weekend.
[Update a while later]
Related thoughts from Mark Steyn.
We Are All Overconfident Idiots
Some useful thoughts on epistemology and psychology, in the context of climate science.
[Update a while later]
Related: Climate change in the land of Gruber/Obama, and Gaia as the opiate of the masses.
Congratulations To ESA
My twitter feed’s been exploding with tweets about the comet landing. Unfortunately, the harpoons apparently didn’t automatically deploy, so they don’t yet have a sure grab to the surface, which could make sampling operations difficult. The surface seems to be softer than expected. But they’re still working the problem.
This is good news for asteroid miners, though.
.@martinselvis2 @ESA_Rosetta Philae has returned volumes and many papers can already be written! This mission is GREAT for asteroid mining.
— Chris Lewicki (@interplanetary) November 12, 2014
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, hearing that they managed to anchor with the ice screws, so maybe harpoons are redundant now.