Category: Technology (Page 1 of 6)

The Space Force wants a space bunker.

March 27, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Firm wins Space Force funding to provide an “aircraft carrier” in orbit.

Such a module would isolate the satellites from the space environment, sparing their batteries and sensitive electronics from harsh thermal cycles every 90 minutes, and provide some shielding from radiation. In addition, the orbital carrier would obfuscate the satellites inside from observation by other nations or hostile actors in space. Then, when a satellite is needed, it can be deployed into multiple orbits by the carrier.

This reminds me of the comedy/science fiction/action movie, Iron Sky (2012).

Sparky saves the day.

March 26, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 2 Comments

I didn’t take this photo because I don’t have a stripper, truck or water.

Everything is broken.

March 26, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Time to give up on DST

March 9, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

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.

Britannica: Pros and Cons of Daylight Savings Time

Doge has plenty of work to do.

March 8, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

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.

That was scary.

March 8, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Everything is going great, then it isn’t. I wasn’t even doing anything stupid.

Women don’t need no man to go into space.

March 1, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

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.

Toronto plane crash.

February 17, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

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.

Solarium soffit project

February 11, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

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.

Get a boot dryer if you’d use it.

January 9, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

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.