It’s so slow that the one that Amazon got approved is already obsolete.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Dean Ornish
How many thousands of people has his junk science killed?
Arguing Science
Here’s an eleventh one:
A common battle-line between climate change deniers and people who actually understand evidence is the effectiveness and representativeness of climate models.
The phrase “climate change deniers” to describe people properly skeptical of crap science is a) unscientific and b) offensive demagoguery.
[Late-morning update]
“Elite” reporters explain why they don’t have to have balanced reporting, or give “deniers” a voice.
IOW, “Shut up,” they explained.
SLS
This isn’t a space transportation system; it’s a cathedral:
The foundation that was already there at Michoud was too weak to support the tool. We had quite a job to reinforce it, to dig it out and then put it back so it could hold up the Vertical Assembly Center. To give you context for the magnitude of the new foundation, Louisiana is not known for its hard soil, and the new foundation that we laid for the Vertical Assembly Center would hold the largest building in downtown New Orleans, 1 Shell Square.
For a program that’s likely to fly, at best, twice.
The Airbus Crash In Europe
I’m wondering, given Airbus history, if it will turn out to be a problem with the fly-by-wire flight-control system.
Aerospace In California
There will be a discussion, sponsored by AIAA, live streamed from Sacramento this afternoon.
I don’t expect anything to come of it.
Mozilla
Why Eric Raymond won’t mourn its demise.
I agree, but unfortunately, as Elf notes in comments, it’s still the best browser for Linux.
Graphene
A team at Cal Tech has come up with a way to mass produce it.
SpaceX In New Mexico
I had speculated after the almost-successful drone ship landings that SpaceX had abandoned plans to do flight testing at Spaceport America, but apparently that’s not the case:
The original plan was to use the site for test flights of the second F9R Development Vehicle, known as F9R Dev2, a follow on vehicle from the impressive Grasshopper and F9R Dev1 vehicles that paved the way for the propulsive landing attempts.
Those vehicles were tested at SpaceX’s McGregor test site in Texas, but were restricted by an altitude ceiling, resulting in the decision to conduct tests at Spaceport America, at much greater altitudes.
2015-03-19 23_21_49-spacex falcon 9 reusable f9r fins – Google SearchNow, based on the advances made during recent missions, it appears SpaceX is hoping to promote the role of Spaceport America, specifically to put the first recovered stage through its paces.
Those tests will be used to find hardware limits, such as how many cycles can be put on a stage, while the second successfully recovered booster would provide the role of qualification testing.
Should the recovery efforts progress, the first launch of a reused booster is likely to occur in late 2016.
Interesting. What I don’t understand is why the helium tanks are a concern for the Turkmenistansat mission, but not for CRS.
Type II Diabetes
Take an over-the-counter cough suppressant, increase your insulin production.