Jun 292012
 
WarBot Update: What to Call the Drones Now that They're here at Home - Suggestions?

Reapers and Predators and the like aren’t robots, they’re super-tech R/C planes with some nice autopilot and guns & missiles, right? Right? Well, since the domestic drone market is heating up now as well, it might be a good idea to figure this out.

Jun 092012
 
Manifesting Star Trek, Part-2 (THE BAD): Boldly Going to Low Earth Orbit Only

People loved the Space Shuttle because even though it was just a fancy orbiter in space, and a hitchhiking glider in atmosphere, it looked like a ship. We’ve been at the whole space thing for nearly 60 years, and still we have rockets and capsules, but no spaceships.

Apr 232012
 
REMINDER: Probable Off-Planet Mining Announcement, & Japan has its Hand Raised.

Asteroid mining could be pretty cool. It’s actually feasible with today’s technology. Ask Japan about this. Seriously, you need to ask Japan about this. COME ON – ASK JAPAN!

Feb 242012
 
Japanese Technology from the Future Friday!

Today’s Dispatch: Space Elevators, Ridiculously Fast Wireless Data, Two More Blood Types for the Japanese to Ponder, and an Animation of the Tohoku Disaster’s Pacific Debris Path.

Feb 142012
 
Technological Utopianism is Way Better than Technological Apocalypticism. Robots, Robots.

Human employment is soon going to drastically & quickly change. For sure China’s in trouble, but on the whole is this good or bad? Here a young guy says we’re doomed, and an old guy says it’s all going to be cool. Weird, right?

Jan 312012
 
Even a Broken Newt is Right Twice a Day. The U.S.A. Needs More Space in Politics.

Heard this one? Newt Gingrich walks into a press conference… and drops the best idea to come out of a politician’s mouth in decades. This scandalous, hypocritical, disingenuous career politician is, in fact, totally correct.