Good news: In a First, Caltech’s Space Solar Power Demonstrator Wirelessly Transmits Power in Space This is *many* orders of magnitude away from a practical solar power satellite… but ya gotta start somewhere. And on the other hand, bad news: Boeing finds two serious problems with Starliner just weeks before launch Problem one:…
Music based on applying notes to “Sierpiński Triangles,” a basic form of a fractal. To me the result sounds like “medieval music.” It also sounds far better than a lot of the drek that gets airplay these days.
Well, here’s a study to shock exactly nobody: Antagonistic narcissism and psychopathic tendencies predict left-wing antihierarchical aggression, study finds Narcissistic individuals and those with psychopathic tendencies are more likely to strongly endorse left-wing antihierarchical aggression, according to new research published in Current Psychology. Antihierarchical aggression refers to a specific type of hostility aimed at challenging…
Paralyzed man walks again using implants connecting brain with spinal cord Some sci-fi stuff here, with “it’s the real world, though” results… he’s walking, yes, but *real* *slow.* Not sure if he can feel anything.
History is *filled* with astonishingly bad ideas. And who would have guessed that some of the worst would come out of collectivist totalitarian systems like Nazi Germany? The Case of The Radioactive Toothpaste Curiously, the toothpaste in question was filled with Radium, the radioactive element of choice for insane and/or stupid product manufacturers in the…
1: A Remington Rand Printing Calculator showed up today. I need it solely for the number keys. Damn thing weighs a ton. Not sure what I’ll do with it after… It’s not something I have a particular use for, nor am I likely going to be able to restore it properly. 2:…
Back in the Good Old Days of above-ground nuclear testing, a series of solid propellant smokey-trailed rockets would be launched just before detonation. They would leave vertical trails in the sky near the detonation. The video below explains just what they were for, as well as some of the physics of the detonation itself… the…
The James Webb Space Telescope recently took a shot of deep space, showing a multitude of galaxies lensed *spectacularly.* Full-rez version at the link. https://esawebb.org/images/potm2303a/ That view is *littered* with lensing, especially on the right.
In 1983 “Science Digest” ran an article that 13-year-old me lost his tiny little mind over. Illustrated by Rick Sternbach, designer of, among other Star Trek vehicles and artifacts, the USS Voyager, it described a series of possible means of interstellar travel. While the physics and engineering of some of them have proven dodgy in…
