Science and Technology
Cutting edge stuff
Some interesting stuff starting to take shape. The world we know now… I wonder how much of what is cutting edge now will be considered cutely quaint in a few years. Starting off the show, Sweden is introducing what it describes as the world’s first 5th generation submarine. We know the F-35 fighter is 5th-gen, […]
Army going nukular
Ah, the old days when Jimmy Carter had been a nuclear officer but couldn’t even pronounce it. Well, the Army is getting into the nuclear business. Not with ‘special weapons’ (somewhere I have a photo of a Special Weapons transport truck driving by some clueless German anti-nuke demonstrators) although some of the heavy arty […]
New Gee-Whiz toys
Let’s open with a Happy Veteran’s Day to all! I am officially encouraging you all to ensure some lucky person has carnal knowledge of your closest vet today. Which, being you, should work out well. On to business. It’s a drone world after all. Who would have forecast few years ago that drones would develop […]
Saturday Shorts
Lot of quickies today. (If only…) The robbery at the Louvre was spectacular, fast, and over $100,000,000 worth was stolen in minutes. Interesting factoid has emerged since then – turns out the Louvre CCTV system is password protected, as it should be. But, as always, natural stupidity trumps any artificial intelligence. Their supersecret complex password? […]
No more magnetic catapults?
Think this may be an off the cuff comment, rather than a serious statement? President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an executive order that would compel the U.S. Navy to use steam-powered catapults and hydraulic elevators on new aircraft carriers. Trump has railed against the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) catapults and […]
Drone killer
Anyone remember a much less expensive ’80s sci-fi movie called “The Last Starfighter”? Fun movie in which a kid from a trailer park discovers that the Space-Invader-type game in his trailer park is actually a recruiting tool for an intergalactic war when he gets recruited for one of the sides – and then becomes the […]
Wanna fly a Blackhawk? Maybe you can
No, this isn’t a come-on for flight warrant school and a vacation at beautiful tropical Ft. Rucker. Sikorsky has announced an unpiloted version of the Blackhawk, to be called the U-hawk, is ready to go. Only took the maker 10 months to design it and get it ready. The latest variant of the UH-60 […]
AI comes riding to the rescue
Don’t know if anyone is tracking the growing number of articles on how people are using AI. Some are pretty clever application, and barring Skynet belatedly becoming aware (the original movie self-awareness date was August 29, 1997) the potential is there. But there are still humans feeding info into the learning, and what they […]
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