…seems to be pretty much dead.
#JourneyToMars was never alive.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) June 20, 2017
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Y2K Bug
I think it was Reagan who said there was no eternal life, except for a govenment program. The Trump administration is apparently making America great again by ending work on fixing something that didn’t happen seventeen years ago.
Cancer Metastasis
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have figured out how to slow it, with existing approved drugs.
Faster, please.
Elon And Mars
He’s published his plan.
I haven’t read it yet, but then, I don’t care much about Mars.
BMI
We could save lives by getting rid of it.
Like calorie counting, low fat, and cholesterol, BMI is junks science.
Ending Hip And Knee Replacements
…by 3-D printing cartilage in place.
Faster, please.
A Wet Workshop
Almost half a century after Skylab, private companies are proposing to outfit a propellant tank on orbit.
Key issue is getting life support going in it quickly, so they don't have to work in suits to outfit it. https://t.co/kZWHojKknt
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) June 12, 2017
Cell Phones
Could we have had them four decades earlier?
I don’t think they’re all that great even today. I only use mine when I have no other choice. But I work from home.
Renewable Energy
Some former officials are alarmed at Trump’s proposed cuts at DoE.
I don’t have a problem with R&D, but if this is cutting subsidies (particularly like Solyndra), slash away.
The Air Force’s Overkill Problem
How much would it cost to just mass produce some WW II warbirds for this sort of thing? A P-40 with its six fifties would easily take out this stuff.