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Some 70 years ago this month, in July 1956, the UGM-27 Polaris SLBM was spitballed at a symposium, starting a compressed four-year development cycle overseen by RADM William âRedâ Raborn for the Navyâs side of it, and Kluge, the lucky sock monkey adopted by Lockheedâs techniciansâ and Kluge was there for every test...
Todayâs Substack is for the estimated fourteen people out there who have not seen The Odyssey. If youâre one of them, Iâm sure you have your reasons. Maybe youâre just now emerging from a coma. (Congratulations! Although you picked a bad time.) Or maybe your schedule does not permit you to sit through a movie...
We released Agnes this morning back at the same place we found her. Her wounds were healing nicely and it was clear she wanted to leave as she has been trying to squeeze through the bars in the dog crate we have her in. I donât think she enjoyed our hospitality very much. She must think weâre monsters especially...
NASA has released a new 3D model of the Earthâs gravitational field. âThe geoid is an equipotential surface that can be thought of as the shape an ocean surface would take due to the Earthâs⊠More
A bank is a business, but it is a highly regulated business with an obligation to serve customers fairly. Herein I propose a basic test of banking ethics. Take $1000. Put half into the lowest tier of checking accounts, and half into the lowest tier of savings accounts. Wait five years. Is there more than $1000? This...
â« These Alarms by Snow Patrol & Kylie MinogueDonât give into loneliness when everything is such a mess.
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the writing is everywhere. Literally. Artificial Intelligence is writing about as well as humans â at...
All over the world, in museums, things human beings have made are on display. And yet something essential is always missing. The thrill of the act-- what the artist felt while making. This is the essence of art and nowhere is it ever found or seen, it is so fleeting it can only be "captured" by the artist herself in...
Eric Weiner had a lovely post about his teenage niece on an airplane â utterly enthralled by the whole thing. The box that lifts into the sky and carries you across the world like a bird. Every part of it a marvel. It reminded me of an old Louis C.K. bit â everything is amazing, and nobodyâs happy. He was brilliant...
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!Just watch out for the Strange Company HQ bouncer. He doesn't play games.Disaster hits HMS Queen Charlotte.A shipwreck that is a "monument to 19th century diplomacy."The "golden age of languages."The ancient Greeks sure liked to put curses on each other.Scientists come up with a lot...
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