A good survey on the current state of the art, and perhaps a breakthrough in printing metal parts.
Category Archives: Space
The Latest Space Dive
The Chinese want to beat Alan Eustace’s record.
Trump And Mars
Jeff Kluger has a play-by-play of this morning’s long-distance phone call.
If Trump wanted to send people to Mars during his term, why didn't he veto the NASA authorization that said 2030s?
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 24, 2017
Bill Nye
Even some of his fans aren’t impressed with his new show. I hadn’t realized the fool was anti-nuclear, too. The Planetary Society should be ashamed to have him as its head.
[Update late morning]
Oh, good lord:
“My vagina has its own voice / Not vocal cords, a metaphorical voice / Sometimes I do a voice for my vagina,” she sings. Charming.
Then there are these super-scientific lines: “Versatile love may have some butt stuff / It’s evolution, ain’t nothing new / There’s nothing taboo about a sex stew.”
In effect, whatever was left of the manmade climate change zealot’s credibility was officially wiped out, unlike our Antarctic ice sheets. Of course, there wasn’t too much credibility left to demolish; this is a guy who once suggested climate change dissent be criminalized and said poignantly “many, many, many, many more hundreds of eggs are fertilized than become humans.”
There really are no words suitable to describe the unhinged absurdity of the segment, so here’s the video with full lyrics for you to witness for yourself. (My sincere apologies for the awfulness in advance.)
I didn’t watch.
[Afternoon update]
And then there’s this.
The biological definition of sex boils down to gametes, apparently Bill Nye has just discovered a third type of gamete beside egg and sperm pic.twitter.com/euBAP0oVxO
— Yeyo (@YeyoZa) April 24, 2017
#Science!
[Update a few minutes later]
@secupp @BillNye @Racheldoesstuff This should be preserved to explain to future scientist why we had to neuter and spay all the millennials
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 24, 2017
The Middle East
…is getting increasingly interested in space.
Neuralink
A deep dive into what Elon is trying to do now. #Transhumanism
[Sunday-afternoon update]
@juancarlosrs @elpilot That is the aspiration: to avoid AI becoming other.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2017
Hawthorne News
Will SpaceX get the tunnel-boring machine that just finished up its work on the Crenshaw-LAX line?
LIDAR
An affordable solid-state one for autonomous vehicles. This could have space applications for autodocking and mating.
Commercial Space Regulations
Ted Cruz is going to hold what looks to be an interesting hearing next week.
An Ignominious Record
We are now into the longest gap in our ability to get Americans into space on American rockets since Alan Shepard flew.
The long gap was caused by our risk aversion, because "safety," not returning America to space, is "the highest priority." https://t.co/bI0SYEDHHm
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) April 18, 2017