No, a bridge back to 1933.
It’s a never ending source of hilarity and irony that these people fashion themselves to be “progressive.”
Category Archives: Technology and Society
From Lunar Return To Colony
This isn’t exactly a new question. The Space Studies Institute has been thinking about it for a third of a century. And of course, one always finds the inevitable “it’s obvious that the first colony should be on Mars” comment.
A New Way To Fly
Well, this is interesting. My most immediate question is, even though it says it won’t stall, what happens if it loses power? Can it glide?
Randall Munroe
[Via Sarah Hoyt]
Justice And Irony
The slow-speed rail in California is being killed by green tactics.
The Tim The Tool Man Approach
…to lighting up the moon.
One quibble. If you really bought that many one-watt green lasers, I’m sure that you’d get the price well below $300.
Being Immortal
Five reasons that it would suck.
I think it misses the point a little, though. It assumes that only you would be immortal. If everyone was, some of the reasons would go away. But more importantly, the goal isn’t immortality, it’s the ability to live as long as one wants to. I think that when you phrase it that way, none of the objections apply.
Obama’s Next Solyndra
Here comes Smith Electric:
The company has very limited customer base of only eight companies, and “the loss of any of these customers could materially harm our business.”
The SEC filing contained other damaging revelations. The firm said that its truck’s lithium-ion battery cells “have been observed to catch fire or vent smoke and flames,” and their warranty reserves may be insufficient to cover future warranty claims.
The company’s top management has limited or no experience in the automobile or truck business. Hansel previously led Evo Medical Solutions, which sold portable oxygen concentrators.
But other than that, it was a great bet, Secretary Chu.
Electric Cars
…are a waste of money, according to the CBO. Well, at least government subsidized ones. But who would expect a physicist to know anything about business or economics?
A Vision Of The Future
This will not make women obsolete, but it’s going to be rough on the prostitution profession, when the technology achieves its peak.
Of course, many prostitutes will tell you that men don’t really come (so to speak) for the sex.