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Category Archives: Technology and Society
An Auto Race
Space Transports
Clark Lindsey has a big round up of all that’s going on these days. We are in exciting times, other than SLS/Orion.
The First High-Altitude Starship Test
…coming this week.
Regardless of the outcome, it will be exciting.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
It could be as soon as Friday.
[Bumped]
Stovepipes
A story from Wayne Hale about the organizational dangers.
I’m more optimistic than he is that we are going to normalize space transportation, though.
Age-Related Cognitive Decline
A new drug that reverses it.
Faster, please.
Ben Bova
We’ve lost another giant of SF. I met him a few times, through NSS. RIP, and ad astra.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
NSS remembers him.
[Bumped]
Orion
The latest on the fiasco.
What a waste of money both of these programs are, and always have been.
Laser Weapons
How the elusive dream finally became reality.
We can be sure they’ll be used in space, because lasers in general are extremely useful in space.
The Second World Wars
A review of what appears to be a new insightful book.
Yes, the resources poured by Hitler into the V weapons would have been of more use strategically if they’d gone instead into long-range bombers. And clearly, the Final Solution was an overall part of the plan, not just collateral damage from the war.