I’ve driven large sections of almost all of these over the decades, but none of them end to end. Closest I’ve come is I-10, but I broke off to head south on the turnpike before I got to Jacksonville. Have to say I’m surprised that they’ve never bypassed Breezewood (which I remember from the turnpike as a kid driving from Michigan to New York in the sixties). I guess tunneling the mountain would be too much of a PITA and disruptive to residents.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Bob Hoover
Rest in peace. One of the all-time great pilots. A lot of friends at Rockwell got a ride in his Mustang.
Here’s a good story from AOPA.
[Afternoon update]
Here’s the story from Air & Space. I’ll be interested to hear what, if anything, General Yeager has to say.
Steven DenBeste
He was one of the greats of early blogging, and a brilliant man in many fields. I have to confess that I feel partially responsible (though I’m sure I was far from alone) in chasing him away from blogging with an ill-thought email. I think I later apologized, but if I didn’t, Steven, if you can read this, please accept my deepest apologies.
[Tuesday-morning update]
More thoughts from Jim Geraghty.
Paleolithic Art
Take a break from this absurd depressing election with a tour of a 35,000-year old French cave. Check out the slide show.
Elon’s Mars Plans
He had an AMA yesterday. I’d be more interested in this, if I gave a rat’s patoot about Mars.
I found this bit more interesting:
Musk was asked about the reusability of the Falcon 9 rockets currently flying. He stated “I think the F9 boosters could be used almost indefinitely, so long as there is scheduled maintenance and careful inspections.” He emphasized that the current Falcon 9 rockets in production would be retired soon and that their next version would be designed for easy reuse. The new Falcon 9, which he calls “Falcon 9 Block 5” – the fifth and final version in the Falcon series, is scheduled to have its first flight in six to eight months.
I assume the cores for the heavy will be of similar design. I wonder how often “careful inspections” need to occur? Every flight?
Colonizing Mars
Speaking of space in The New Atlantis, thoughts from Bob Zubrin about Elon’s plans.
Growing New Knees
…and other joint cartilage, from noses.
Faster please. Though I do have to say it sort of reminds me of the end of Sleeper.
Schiaparelli, RIP
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the impact site. Burn was ten times too short, fell from 2-4 kilometers, almost-full tanks probably exploded on “landing.”
But they think it was a software error, which is good news.
Getting Over “Apolloism”
My longish print essay at The New Atlantis is now on line.
The Internet
Someone is learning how to take it down.
Ironic, considering that the original purpose of Arpanet was to prevent exactly this sort of thing. https://t.co/mYDqxbWGaA
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) October 21, 2016
[Update a few minutes later]
Oh, goody, a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that’s been there for nine years.