…is causing climate models to fail.
Is there anything it can’t do?
An Anti-Satellite Weapon
Has China launched one?
Reusable Rockets
Megan Gannon has another article on this past weekend’s DC-X meeting in Alamagordo.
The Solar System
A cute video, featuring the sun destroying the earth. Time to pack up and find a new one — we only have half a billion years or so.
The Pioneer Anomaly
Is gravity not quite inverse R squared? That would be a pretty amazing result if it’s true.
Not Eating For Two Weeks
Someone gives soylent a try.
The Delta Clipper Legacy
Pat Hynes writes about last weekend, and her own remembrance of the test flights.
Mad-Men Economics
No, we can’t return to those ridiculously high post-war tax rates (which few people paid, anyway).
The Share Buttons Problem
I’ve disabled the plugin that puts the share buttons on the posts, so let’s see if that helps page loading. But I’ve also noticed that there’s an update to it, so it might be that if I install the new version, it will fix it as well.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, I”ve installed the new version. Let me know if you’re still having problems with page loads.
[Update a while later]
OK, new version didn’t fix it, so I’ve deactivated again. It does seem to be Google that was slowing things down.
Mark Steyn, Me And Galileo
I hadn’t noticed at the time, but Daren Jonescu had an interesting essay last month on Judge Green’s denial of our anti-SLAPP motions.