Friday, November 30, 2018

Having a wonderful time...

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For years, whenever you saw a list of the top rated original cable shows, there would be a foot note that would say something like "exc...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Some cool old airplane pictures for a Thursday

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Steam powered airplanes were the very definition of a technological dead end, but you have to admit they had style. 
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

More perspective on the atomic age mindset.

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In an earlier post , we discussed Willy Ley's observation that, from a 1930s standpoint, a successful moon landing seemed far more o...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Space exploration is hard.

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Yes, I realize that's probably not the most controversial claim I'll make this week, but in this age of hype and bullshit, it's ...
Monday, November 26, 2018

We all know the numbers, but sometimes you have to be reminded to do the math

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From XKCD
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Kevin Drum makes a good point

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This is Joseph. There has been a lot of concern about recent comments by Hillary Clinton about Europe curbing refugee admissions .  Kevin ...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Roy Clark and friend

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Seems like an appropriate way to kick off the weekend.
Thursday, November 22, 2018

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hulu ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Fifty years late and the Russians are the ones doing it, but otherwise...

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That was fortuitous timing. We just ran a post on Willy Ley (circa 1959) discussing the possibility of using nuclear powered rockets for sp...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

The point that no one wants to make about the bad news from Facebook.

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Embattled and in over his head, Mark Zuckerberg should — at least — step down as Facebook chairman ... My column https://t.co/hNJX8Y3YuF ...
Monday, November 19, 2018

"The Case Against Quantum Computing"

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I am approaching this one cautiously both out of concern for confirmation bias and because I know so little about the subject, but this pes...
Friday, November 16, 2018

This John Oliver segment has a way of popping back into the relevant category

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In case you haven't been following the news. New York is paying Amazon $1.5 billion: https://t.co/NqJcZyBfU2 — Felix Salmon (@felixs...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Launching the USS Holland -- my big regret is that I couldn't work in a reference to the dynamite gun

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Perhaps even more than the airplane, submarines are the perfect example of how a wave of enabling technologies at the end of the 19th centu...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

There's still nothing there (and other lessons journalists refuse to learn about Elon Musk)

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[See comments] From Ars Technica Similarly, Musk told mayors on Thursday that he wants The Boring Company to dig sewers, water transp...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Another reason to have mixed feelings about the franchise model

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From Bloomberg : All’s fair in the bitter, protracted war between 7-Eleven and its franchisees. The tensions have built steadily in the ye...