This may be the first time in my life that I did not know about changing the clocks for Daylight Savings Time. That is reason enough to abolish the policy.
Category: Technology (Page 10 of 15)
Why Has Joe Biden’s $42 Billion Broadband Program Not Connected One Single Household?
This is maddening, and with luck, much of that money can be redirected. Consider this one program cost each taxpayer in America, about $300.
Subtract the people with the internet on their phones and the people who don’t want the internet, how many are left? Running coax or fiber optic cable to every remote location in America intentionally ignores the existence of Starlink.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk approvingly reposted an X user who claimed that “for $42 billion they could have bought Starlink dishes for 140 million people.”
There are only 130 million households in America.
Everything is going great, then it isn’t. I wasn’t even doing anything stupid.
Historic all-woman space flight to include Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez
This sexist article is so patronizing.
Blue Origin says its next spaceflight is set to make history.
With celebrities such as Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King on board, the all-woman crew will fly into space when the New Shepard spacecraft launches from the West Texas desert this spring. The company says it’s the first all-woman flight since the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963.
Reuters: Plane flips over in Toronto
Maybe it will come out later, but where is the video of the plane flipping over? Airports must have cameras all over the place. I’ve flown on plenty of Bombardier CRJ jets on the feeder airlines. I didn’t like it so much. While landing, the runway looks like it’s swinging back and forth like a pendulum. The pilot aspires to touch down at the bottom of the arc. So far, the brisk wind is suggested as a cause.
In a way, this crash inspires confidence. There were 80 people onboard, and no deaths or life-threatening injuries. Just getting people out of the inverted seats could be the cause of several injuries. That is a sturdy little jet.
Morning dog and I were very comfortable, when the sun had risen high enough to interfere with my bliss. Morning dog had already been out to pee and come in to investigate the snack pit, so neither of us wanted to get off the couch.
I could endure the morning sun shining in my eyes, when it occurred to me that with my phone, I could command my robot window shades.
For my first frivolous purchase, this boot dryer is great. When I tell Sparky we are going out for a walk, I turn it on. By the time Sparky and I have our jackets on, the boots are warm. Putting on warm boots is like putting on a sweatshirt that just came out of the dryer.
After the walk, the boots get a dried for 10 minutes.
It’s a good thing I ordered early. Sparky would have lost all faith in my judgement. The pet bed warmer I got for Sparky is completely ineffective. I’d have better luck keeping Sparky warm by reciting bawdy limericks all night.
Mysterious drones over New Jersey
More than three weeks after dozens of mysterious drones began popping up in the New Jersey night sky, the public has still been offered no clear insight on what the phenomenon could be.
This is a huge story that reveals that corporate media and the federal government have failed. Finding the whole story is difficult, so I’ll pull from a few reports.
With the normal stupid stuff going on, it’s easy to lose track of the impressive work being done. SpaceX routinely launches satellites into orbit and occasionally demonstrates an impressive new capability, but the big picture isn’t addressed very often.
The Artemis III project is planning to get people back to the moon in two years. NASA is leading the project along with the space agencies of Europe, Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada, Israel and Dubai.
Humans haven’t walked on the Moon in over fifty years, and this time, we won’t be landing in an expedient contraption. SpaceX is building the lunar lander. The photo above shows the SpaceX HLS with other objects to show the scale. Notice the tiny Apollo Lunar Module on the right.