Yes, that is what California has become. Don’t know how much longer we’ll hold out.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
How The Obama Administration Spied On Trump
Let us count the ways. It’s hilarious to watch the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) hie to their fainting couches at Barr’s honesty.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Democrats’ mindless railing against Barr will end badly for them.
End Of A Driving Era
The Eurocrats are slamming the brakes on the autobahns. Eighty kph is ridiculous. Driving at high speed on the autobahn was on my bucket list. Looks like it’s not going to happen now.
Beresheet
Looks like the landing failed. Or at least the landing wasn’t soft. It probably left a long trench.
Great effort, though. Just getting into lunar orbit on the first attempt was a huge success; JPL missed the moon completely with several of the Ranger attempts. I hope they’re funded to try again.
Climate Science
Thoughts on its “noble corruption.”
A New Grand Minimum?
What’s going on with the sun, and what does it mean for climate hysteria?
Faster Than Light
This is indeed an extraordinary claim. We’ll see, I guess.
NASA’s New Lunar Plans
An interesting article from Eric Berger. This stuck out to me:
Neither Bridenstine nor Pence said so explicitly, but these comments reflect their sense that NASA has become too bureaucratic, too tentative, too risk averse. During his town hall this week, Bridenstine had a telling response when asked why, by setting such an ambitious goal of a 2024 landing, was he not putting schedule over safety?
“I would not say it’s a return to schedule over safety, I would say it’s a return to schedule,” he said. “Safety is paramount for everybody at this agency, it always has been. But the number one mission is not safety. If it was, we would all just stay in the ready room and just watch CNN.”
I gave him a copy of my book after it came out, when he was a congressman. He later told me he’d read it.
[Update a while later]
This is the first that I’d heard Boeing was considering Starliner for cislunar missions. I thought they’d sized the TPS for entry from LEO. I wonder if that means they’d have to beef it up?
California Major Earthquakes
We should have had one by now.
Another reason to move out, I guess. It would be a natural disaster on top of the unnatural one that is California voters.
Cats
…recognize their own names, even if they don’t bother to respond.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, statements like this never make any sense to me:
Saito says she thinks feline pets learn to recognize their names because of what is in it for them. “I think cats associated their names with some rewards or punishments,” she says—adding that she thinks it is unlikely the cats understand their names are attached to them. “There is no evidence that cats have the ability to recognize themselves, like us,” she explains. “So, the recognition about their name is different from ours.”
My emphasis. Gee, every time I see a cat ignore itself in the mirror, instead of treating the image like another cat, I think that’s evidence of ability to recognize itself.