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
Education Tired debates 17 Apr 2010 There’s a whole bunch of arguments that are becoming very tiring, and in which I think we have made no apparent progress for far too long, such as the fooraw between Massimo Pigliucci and PZ Merkel, the German chancellor. I propose, therefore, to say nothing about them after this post… Read More
General Science Research blogging goes live 23 Jan 2008 You’ll recall that we had a new logo and link for Blogging Peer Reviewed Research. This is now rebadged and has become Research Blogging. It will aggregate and feed the posts on peer reviewed research. Read More
General Science Is there a physicist in the house? 10 Jan 2008 One of my colleagues just raised a point I hadn’t thought of vis á vis Special Relativity. I had always thought that an observer on a photon would not experience time. My colleague suggests that each frame of reference – the fast moving and the “stationary” – would experience time… 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