If we’re going to be servicing satellites (and we are), we have to accept the dual use of the technology. Space is a place.
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More from Space News.
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China’s plans to dominate space.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
An Amusing Story
This is three years old, but it’s the first time I’d seen it.
Chrome
Google just gave you the best reason yet to quit using it.
I primarily use Brave, which is built on the Chrome code base, but designed both for privacy and ad avoidance, with an option to provide micropayments to sites you like. I also like it because it was founded by Brendan Eich, after he was fired by Mozilla for giving money to a group opposed to gay marriage.
AI Chatbots
Some men are verbally abusing them.
This was unfortunately inevitable.
A Large-Scale Invasion Of Ukraine
How likely is to happen, and how? An interesting and apparently well-informed analysis.
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Hacktivists in Belarus are doing a ransomware attack to get rid of Russia.
[Afternoon update]
Putin has waited thirty years to sort out Ukraine.
JWST
It’s arrived safely at ESL2.
No, NTSB
If the commercial spaceflight industry wants your “help,” it will ask for it.
Excitement At Starbase
This seems sort of spectacular.
“Don’t Look Up”
Boca Chica
Are SpaceX’s plans there on indefinite hold?
This is definitely going to delay first orbital flight test, and it may occur out of Florida instead.