How to prevent it.
I wonder how much longer manufacturers will continue to make cars with a clutch pedal?
[Early evening update]
This seems related. Learning to drive a stick shift with haptic feedback.
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Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Silicon Valley Of Space
Maybe, but I think that Pacific Northwest and the Front Range may give them a run for their money. The sad thing is that it’s probably not LA. Other than SpaceX, not a lot of it here.
Extrasolar Space Law
Transterrestrial reader (and occasional commenter) Laura Montgomery has what appears to be an interesting new SF book
She writes:
I noticed that you’ve mentioned an independent author from time to time at Transterrestrial, and thought I’d let you know about my own attempts along those lines. I’ve published on Kindle and other ereaders The Sky Suspended.
It’s bourgeois, legal science fiction with a hearty helping of space policy wonkery.
The short version of the blurb is:
A generation has passed since asteroid scares led the United States to launch its first and only interstellar starship. The ship returns and announces the discovery of another Earth. People are star-struck, crowds form in Washington, DC, and a boy from Alaska and two lawyers grapple with issues surrounding the question of whether ordinary people will be able to emigrate to the stars.
I haven’t read it, but the few reviews are positive. You might want to check it out and add your own.
More Leftist Projection
This is one of the classics — on gun control:
Lefties generally assume that everyone is as messed up and irresponsible as they are.
Yup.
Life Extension
How possible is it? A debate.
I have to say that De Grey sounds a lot more scientific than Bortz.
The Current State Of Computer Graphics
Here are some amazing photorealistic CGI renderings.
[Via Geek Press]
Destination Moon
On the set, in 1950.
Evoloterra
Clark Lindsey and his wife performed the ceremony with some friends, and has a review. Our experience has been that people who are not generally into space enjoy it quite a bit, if you can get them to do it.
Some Kitchen Advice
I have to admit, I’ve been intrigued by sous vide. But the Instant Pot looks interesting, too.
[Evening update]
More encomia for the sous vide.
[Update in the morning]
Per that last link, this one
Forty-Four Years Ago Today
…men first walked on the moon. And this past Tuesday (when we did The Space Show on our ceremony, that I hope everyone performs tonight), was the forty-fourth anniversary of the launch, when the Saturn dropped it first stage into the Atlantic. And they’ve confirmed the find of one of the engines.