Not every idea pans out. Virgin Orbit pauses operations for a week, furloughs nearly entire staff as it seeks funding In a world where SpaceX is doing it’s thing, other small launcher companies had damned well better have a *really* good idea. And while dropping an expendable rocket from a 747 might have been neato-keen…
Huh. Surface changes observed on a Venusian volcano during the Magellan mission In short, a volcano on Venus seemed to be active from 1990 to 1992. It could be that the mountain simply slumped, but more likely it that it blarped up some lava. So if you decide to go for a hike on…
Apparently life is bad for women in South Korea, with a heavily patriarchal society that treats ’em like garbage. So, perhaps not surprisingly, a lot of South Korean women are doing what they can to avoid the worst of it. And for some number of them, that means avoiding men entirely: A World Without Men…
From three days ago, the only news source Google seemed to find: Kazakhstan Seizes Russian Assets At Baikonur Spaceport Russia, it seems, isn’t paying its bills, so Kazakhstan sent in the repo men. Apparently. The bulk of the story is behind a paywall.
Wikipedia, unsurprisingly, has a list of all the Best Movie Oscar winners. For no readily apparent reason I decided to look them all up and see how many I’ve watched. Starting in the forties (because why not): 40s: 4 50s: 5 60s: 4 70s: 7 80s: 8 90s: 9 00s: 4 10s: 2 20s: 0…
So it looks like Silicon Valley Bank employed people to do fundamentally pointless time- and resource-wasting stuff. This, sad to say, is hardly unique; lots of companies devote surprising amounts of effort end employees time to things that have nothing to do with the companies business or mission. Company baseball teams, for example, have nothing…
My preference with the cyanotype diagrams is to not tinker with the actual image other than the needs of cleaning them up. However, in a few cases the diagrams are such that they make inconvenient fits, or could be made into convenient sizes… or need additional stuff added to them to flesh them out. One…
Banks failing are hardly good news. But for most people, FDIC insurance *should* mean that most people shouldn’t lose a dime, though there will definitely be heartburn and inconvenience. This insurance covers up to, IIRC, $250,000 in savings, which is more than most people have. But some people have a *lot* more than that. The…
100 Million Years Unveiled: The Most Detailed Model of Earth’s Surface Ever it’d be interesting to see what it says about the maximum mountain height in that time. When India slammed into Asia it drove up the Himalaya’s; doubtless to altitudes well above where they are today. Reference: “Hundred million years of landscape dynamics…
So, as previously mentioned, the recently enacted patently unconsitutional gun ban in Illinois has had a stay put on it by a downstate judge. The state has announced a plan to appeal this to the Illinois Supreme Court. It is understood that the IL SC will squash the opposition to the bill. But… there’s a…
