If this is valid, it would have application not to just life extension, but to space travel as well.
Category Archives: Science And Society
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.
Sat Fat Resistance Continues To Crumble
This is a pretty significant paper, considering the author.
Airline Travel Tips
From an apparent idiot. Hard to tell if she’s serious, or if this is a parody.
Interstellar
Peter Suderman reviews his review.
[Update a while later]
And here‘s John Nolte’s review.
[Sunday-morning update]
Five reasons why Interstellar is a conservative film.
I think that it helps to view it as allegorical, and not try to take the science too seriously.
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Another Green “Stimulus” Fail
Google and others want a taxpayer bail out for their desert bird roaster.
That looks like a nice bill for the new Congress to make Obama have to sign.
More at (appropriately) Powerline:
The sheer temerity of the request is almost outweighed by the unintended humor of their explanation for the failure of their project: the Sun isn’t shining as much as they thought it would. But I think they’re barking up the wrong tree: rather than ask for your money so they don’t have to use their money, they should ask the guy who said he would make the oceans recede, to order the Sun to stop slacking — rudely continuing to shine as it has for five billion years — and brighten up for Google, NRG, and Obama’s legacy.
What fools these mortals who support this insanity be.
Interstellar: Fantastic Visuals
…with an “undercurrent of cheesiness.” It looks like, as with Gravity, it will be beautifully annoying.