Although I’ve seen no scientific confirmation one way or another, I suspect today’s effort to put Earth into a new orbit was unsuccessful. I was pleased to discover that it would take 120 cups of coffee or 370 cups of iced tea to get enough caffeine to kill me. I don’t think I’d be able […]
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Time to move away from all J.A.I.L. all the time. With the weekend upon us and as a transition back to a more normal flow of posts, here’s an extended miscellany from near and far: Local savant Scott Hudson picks a get out of town all star team. Via a comment to an earlier post […] I have three or four book reviews I should/need to write and either lack the motivation to finish (or even start) or am simply in procrastination mode. Thus, it seems an appropriate time for a collection of miscellany: Steal This Wiki has been launched to update and revise Abbie Hoffman’s counterculture classic, Steal This Book. […] The head of NASA’s former Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project has announced the formation of the Tau Zero Foundation. Named after a Poul Anderson novel, the foundation is intended to support “incremental advancements in science, technology, and education” leading to interstellar flight. (Via Roberson’s Interminable Ramble.) Speaking of being on another planet, evidently the Bible says […] SF author David Louis Edelman gives us 20 ways science fiction and fantasy are like Mozilla Firefox. The Space Program Archive is a new project continaing more than 50,000 historical newspaper pages about space programs and space exploration. The A.V. Club gives us classic movies it’s okay to hate. With the exception of A Clockwork […] |
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