OK, so Ares works 28 Oct 2009 I’m not proud. Well, not too proud. I admit I was wrong about the Ares 1-X – it seemed to work fine without excessive vibration and probably will work as a human rated booster. I still would have liked to see a shuttle derived main core, but given that time is tight and they have already spent a bucketload on the development of this beast, it should probably proceed. General Science Technology
Ecology and Biodiversity The mind of the ecological engineer 27 Oct 201127 Oct 2011 I watched a very interesting documentary episode recently, entitled “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” (a phrase of poet Richard Brautigan’s), in which the maker Adam Curtis put forward the view that ecology was founded (at least in its modern iteration) in direct analogy with the view of… Read More
General Science Lehrer on sociology 25 Apr 2008 I am not being discipline-centric, no, not at all. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX5II-BJ8hI&hl=en] This one’s for Eli Gerson… Read More
Censorship The lies of the internet censors: Your. Filter. Won’t. Work. 16 Dec 2008 The title is the title of a nice essay at Crikey. I especially like this: Bernadette McMenamin of ChildWise, you’ve crossed the line, defaming everyone who’s protested the government’s plans. “Most of these people are not fully aware of the facts and secondly, those who are aware are, in effect,… Read More
I would have liked to see a Willy Ley/Arthur Clarke,/John Campbell class of shuttle. Of course their frames are interred in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with too many young men and women. fusilier, SMOF jg. (ret.) James 2:24