While NASA may need to wait 26 months between launches for the orbits to align, they may also need the time to engineer the acronyms like SHERLOC and MOXIE.

Two items:

A month ago the family requested an independent autopsy. Whatever happened to that?

And then there’s this:

The Segway or the wheelchair?

The ingenious balance module for the Segway was originally designed for a wheelchair that could climb stairs, a real Breakthrough. Unfortunately, Kamen could never get the thing fully accepted as a medical device, which closed the chair off from the Medicare market. I have thought that the balance technology could…

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Mrs Butterworth is black?

In the 1936 Sci-Fi film Things To Come, an angry luddite mob is attacking the site of the first moon shot. Their leader at one point warns the head of the project, “And if you succeed, we shall hate you all the more!”

I wonder if Hugo ever considered webcam porn chats as one app?

Dear Penthouse:

You say this new Postmaster General has no experience, but studiously avoid mentioning what experience he does have. Turns out he used to be CEO of New Breed Logistics, a supply chain distribution firm with 70 warehouses and other facilities nationwide. While small potatoes next to the Postal Service, it is in exactly…

However, unlike China there are other sources of information than the government in the USA.

Speaking of the FCC, did we ever die for lack of Network Neutrality?

What exactly does the pandemic have to do with Allen’s book?

If you give a month long target date for non-essential products, and happen to have some in the warehouse and ship them quickly, the recipient is happy. If you cant ship till April and say so, the recipient’s expectations are not unduly raised. Win win.

Don’t complain abut older people being election judges. Next year, volunteer yourself to be an election judge. I did that for a number of years and found it to be a tremendously rewarding experience.

There was a lot of talk the other week about China building a new isolation hospital in just a few days, Hope they do a better job with that job.

Hachette also publishes a book called The Autobiography of a Hitman, written by a Mob assassin who has copped to more than 2 dozen actual murders. To my knowledge there was no mass walkout over releasing that book.