Posted by kdawson (52% noise) View Skip ColdWetDog writes “It’s not Sigourney Weaver tossing aliens about, but The Register has an interesting blurb about a real human-capable exoskeleton that looks pretty cool (Lockheed-Martin press release). Runs for three hours at 3 mph on internal ba...

I had the most unusual dream. I had this dream that I got "upgraded"...I somehow had gotten my brain connected with a computer. As I recall, it was some sort of experiment that I had volunteered for, and it was working out well. Imagine being able to use the computer to help you access all the data ...

"Rare Walt Disney Space series from 1955, speculating about going into Space. Remember, more than 50 years ago, Sputnik hadn't even gone up yet! This intro to the video is done by Disney afficionado, film critic Leonard Maltin!" These are the first three of 8 youtube video clips from this show. Watc...

So CCTV burned down their own hotel. That has got to look bad in the yearly evaluation. However, here is what I am pretty sure didn't happen: I am pretty sure that they didn't torch their own building for the insurance money using the year's second-biggest night of fireworks as convenient cover. Thi...

You may recall that I recently posted about an O to N flight to about 50,000 feet. Here is the previous post. Well the same rocket (or slightly modified perhaps) flew on a P motor staged to an N motor, or an RDH8 P6000BB to an AMW N4000BB to quote the page. This is your optimum stage ratio of 4:1. I...

Monsanto House of the Future Picture credit: http://mistertoast.blogspot.com/ Picture credit: http://mistertoast.blogspot.com/ Picture credit: http://mistertoast.blogspot.com/ In 1955, Walt Disney opened Tomorrowland, a futuristic-themed section of his Disneyland amusement park in California. This i...

For the philosophically inclined: Nachdem Joseph Hanimann bei dem nouvelle philosophe André Glucksmann (Gaza, une riposte excessive?) sozusagen einen intellektuellen Suizid konstatiert hat, warten wir nun darauf, daß Peter Hammel a.k.a. Jordan Mejias ähnliches für den Kommunitaristen Michael Wal...

obviously, targeted assassination is not ok outside the context of an armed conflict. This becomes really messy as regards this Israel-Palestine in general More precisely, it becomes state terror, in most cases against an illegally subjugated population. but it is simpler in the Gaza conflict, as th...

We have heard a lot about proportionality of Israel’s attacks on Gaza in response to rocket attacks upon Israel from Gaza either directed by Hamas or at least tolerated by Hamas. The implication in these arguments is proportionality is the yardstick to measure morality in actions between states. T...

...And so my op-eds you won't read in the New York Times. And I haven't has a letter in for a while. Therefore, my comments on his op-ed, What You Don’t Know About Gaza, you'll have to peruse here. So, here we go: NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few ...