Science and Technology
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 […]
Alien visitors… next week
Meet Abraham “Avi”Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He chaired the Department of Astronomy from 2011 to 2020, and founded the Black Hole Initiative in 2016. And seems to have chucked a few chunks of cortex down a black hole in recent years. Remember a while back in 2017 […]
India retires MiG-21s
India is retiring its fleet of MiG-21 fighters. Their primary combat threat for over 30 years, the plane leaves behind a decidedly mixed legacy, nicknamed a “flying coffin” for its many crashes. Reminds you of some of our Western “widowmakers” and such, doesn’t it? India started acquiring the then-blistering fast MiG in 1966, and since […]
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