A (relatively) new paper. If the space-settlement bill has hearings and is discussed on the floor, this will become a key issue.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Ancient Warfare
I’m always amused by things like this:
Before the 1990s, “for a long time we didn’t really believe in war in prehistory,” DAI’s Hansen says. The grave goods were explained as prestige objects or symbols of power rather than actual weapons. “Most people thought ancient society was peaceful, and that Bronze Age males were concerned with trading and so on,” says Helle Vandkilde, an archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark. “Very few talked about warfare.”
Because they bought into Rousseau’s “noble savage” BS.
I suspect there’s still a lot more that we don’t know about human history than we do.
TSA Pre-Check
I’ve been getting randomly assigned it on my boarding passes for years, but I’d never understood why. For instance, I got it on my flight back from IAD this week, but not on my flight out from LAX. So here’s the story, sort of.
Anyway, they say it’s going to end, so if I want to get it, I have to actually sign up and pay the 85 bucks. So I decided to finally do it. I have to go to LAX with my passport and fingers on Monday morning to complete the process.
Lipidophobia
Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise
Ivanpah’s Problems
…could end concentrated solar in the US.
And the birds and pilots rejoiced.
The Lone Wolf Era Of ISIS
…is over.
Goody.
STS-93
A rocket-geek recollection on stoichiometry and flight-propellant reserve from Wayne Hale. The other day he tweeted that he’d been looking through his old files from Shuttle days and was wondering if there’d be a market for a book. I think there would be.
The Latest Email
I’m sure you’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that it reveals that she was very parsimonious with the truth.
Punishing Climate-Change Skeptics
In which my lawsuit (though not me personally) is discussed by my lawyers, in today’s WSJ. It’s now about sixteen months since we argued before the DC appellate court, with no ruling.
Commercial Supersonic
Here’s the latest entry. They seem to have persuaded Virgin into buying ten planes.
They don’t seem to be addressing boom, no mention of transcontinental flight. I have a lot of trouble believing they can do trans-Pacific non-stop. But I’d like to find out more.