Archaeologists may have found the lower camp of the Donner Party at Alder Creek.

…comes great responsibility. No, not Spiderman, but Bill Whittle has another essay up. Go ye forth and read it.

A thousand-year-old redwood tree killed an SUV.

Doesn’t nature just suck?

A thousand-year-old redwood tree killed an SUV.

Doesn’t nature just suck?

A thousand-year-old redwood tree killed an SUV.

Doesn’t nature just suck?

Here‘s a possible reason why…

Looks to me like they don’t have a case.

Here‘s a possible reason why…

Looks to me like they don’t have a case.

Here‘s a possible reason why…

Looks to me like they don’t have a case.

Thomas James has an excellent summary of Elon Musk’s talk on SpaceX at the Mars Society meeting.

The plan seems to be focused on eventual ability to do private Mars exploration, which is a noble goal, but I wonder if that goal isn’t driving his current concepts to the detriment of nearer-term utility. We’ll see how well he can hit his cost-per-flight target at such a low flight rate.

What I found even more interesting, however, was the second-hand report that Blue Origin is going for a vertical-takeoff vertical-landing vehicle.

Anybody else all of a sudden seeing lots of spams for backup power supplies and generators?