Science and Technology
Six shooters? Pah?
Gotta love a sexy six (or seven) shooter – I know revolvers in .22LR are even made as 10-shooters – so kudos to Ed for giving us one Monday. Gotta say, though, that today’s offerings are a tad more sophisticated. Let’s start with Metal Storm – a Chinese made system. How do you intercept a […]
The H-1B skilled-worker program, bringing in talent or displacing Americans?
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are championing the use of the H-1B skilled-worker visa programs to bring in talent. One argument they advanced is that we are competing against other countries in artificial intelligence development and in other technology arenas. To be able to compete with these other countries, one of the things we need […]
More drones, over UK bases
Somehow his doesn’t seem like a TikTok challenge stealing Hyundais. Between Wednesday and Saturday last week, multiple drones were spotted flying over and presumably surveilling US air bases in the UK. The objects were seen between Wednesday and Saturday flying over the Royal Air Force’s Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Feltwell bases, all used by the US […]
More new toys, and one olde one
China has unveiled a largish drone…ten TONs’ worth. The drone is expected to be a “mothership” for smaller drone swarms. While initially it can look like a normal attack aircraft, its central payload section is labeled as ‘Isomerism Hive Module’. This reveals that the mothership could have the capability to launch drones mid-air and then […]
AI helps, they say. Software makes life easier, they say
First off, tip o’ the hat to Mason for spotting this too. We are all hearing how Artificial Intelligence, aka AI, is the wave of the future, and that machine learning/intelligence will lead to breakthroughs, stunning leaps, and making everything better, right? (We all know that in actuality, almost all technology advances are used to […]
New toys for the troops
Well, I whined about our readiness – actually, the lack of which – to defend against things like relatively low-altitude drones. Did we magically find something viable? No, but it turns out that some new toys are in the works which can address some of our lacks. First up – everyone knows one of the […]
SpaceX Launches Spacewalk Mission
SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn mission from Florida after multiple weather delays Initially planned to launch on Aug. 27, the Polaris Dawn mission faced weather and technical delays. The company skipped any launch attempts last week as days of storms would have prevented a safe splashdown for the Dragon on either Florida coast in the event […]
Wednesday short takes – Mass school buses and rockets
Let’s get the old blood pressure up, shall we? Fox has an article headlining a license-less woman who is unable to get her kid on a bus to school and can’t afford to Uber him dozensof times a week. The school district says it is unable to provide busing from more than K-6 grades to […]
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