What about the droid attack on the wookies? It’s a system we cannot afford to lose, and yet you chose to write about this particular tragedy instead.

When a photon bounces off an object, that thing absorbs some of the energy of the photon. The photon shifts to a redder form of light, and the object gains the lost energy. If the object can’t move it will just get a little warmer, but in space it will instead feel a small push (and get a bit warmer). But turning the…

Some folks like Apple enthusiast John Gruber even proclaimed that the Fold “is never going to ship and everyone knows it.”

It’s a game of patience. Even at reduced light levels beyond Jupiter, that little bit of continuous thrust still adds up over years of travel time.

“Which of course meant they became taxed.”

You realize that it’s supposed to be reported and taxed, right?  Not doing so is actually a federal crime (if you’re caught)

While I think it’s 100% justified that these cops got fired, fuck them, it still amuses me (and by amuses I mean deeply angers me) that cops can murder black people and keep their jobs but this is a fireable offense. Maybe they should have just killed her and got administrative leave. Seems legit

“Gravity is a harness,” Sigma says in the trailer. “I have harnessed the harness.”

In order for an airplane to get an ETOPS certification they have to show that the airplane can fly on one engine for an extended period of time. Also a new part of the standard (required since we have so many polar routes these days) is that their diversion airports, they most have a plan to house, feed, and evacuate…

Apollo 13 went further from the earth but there were three of them in the capsule and they never landed. Collins holds the record for being the human being who was the greatest distance from the next closest human being.

Different people react differently 

The Boeing 747, introduced 50 years ago, is still in production today.

Shout out to Dancing with the Stars and not...

And here ive always heard Neil Armstrong liked talking about the moon. More precisely he liked to tell unfunny jokes about it and then follow them up with “I guess you had to be there”.

The Royal Canadian Meownted Police?

I know this can be a snarky blog, but that’s cheap shot. Michael Collins’ was part of one of the most important and famous events of the last 100 years. Just because you’re ignorant of him, doesn’t mean everyone is.

“no feelings of frustration or rancor or whatever”

I’m calling it. 2019 will be seen as the year VR moves into the mainstream, because of the Oculus Quest. I picked one up at launch. I’m old enough that I once stood in a one hour line in 1993 to try out Dactyl Nightmare on a Virtuality VR system in an arcade. It was my first, very rudimentary, taste of the VR future.…

It’s possible. They don’t know yet but it’s one of the avenues science is looking into. Unknown aspects of science are a bit like a religion. You can BELIEVE in modified gravity, or string theory, or a multiverse, even without experimental proof of its existence. The difference is scientists actively work towards…