Author: Richard Nestoff (Page 18 of 126)

Some women are weird.

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is when you learn something new, then started noticing it everywhere.

I wasn’t aware that Science Fiction Erotica was a sub-genre of literature until I’d watched Shoe0nHead’s latest Youtube video.  I started noticing the topic showing up on news and current event sites.

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Going back to the Moon, and for real this time.

Nasa plans first crewed Moon mission in 50 years for February 2026

Maybe there is too much going on or it’s the fracturing of news media, but there are big things happening that people aren’t talking about.  

In four months, humans are going back to the Moon.  The Artemis 2 mission is to perform a lunar orbit, no landing, similar to Apollo 9 in 1968.  Apollo 9 is the mission that yielded the moving “Earth Rise” photograph.

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The military wants nuke plants.

U.S. Army Plans to Power Bases With Tiny Nuclear Reactors

U.S. Army Plans to Power Bases With Tiny Nuclear Reactors

This microreactor from Valar Atomics looks super cool, and this sounds like a good idea.

The U.S. military is making one of its most significant pushes yet into modern nuclear power with a program to put small reactors on Army bases across much of the country where strained power grids can’t keep up with rising energy demands.

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NASA sensor platform is a surprise.

Texas woman surprised as lost hunk of NASA equipment lands on her farm: ‘It’s kind of surreal’

She seems like a good sport.  Did she change outfits or do girl farmers usually dress cute?

When Ann Walter looked outside her rural West Texas home, she didn’t know what to make of the bulky object slowly drifting across the sky.

She was even more surprised to see what actually landed in her neighbor’s wheat field: a boxy piece of scientific equipment about the size of a sport-utility vehicle, attached to a massive parachute, adorned with NASA stickers.

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