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Because there are more new broadcast TV stations every year, the cable companies have to buy more antennas and receivers. TV receivers are astonishingly expensive — they have to be shipped all the way from China. And then there are the fees the cable company has to pay for Over The Air...

The science is amazing, but it's not Star Trek yet. According to this interview The NIH’s top vaccine maker wants Warp Speed to be the new normal the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was funding Moderna to research coronavirus vaccines. So when SARS-CoV-2 came out, Moderna...

A really simple solution would be to get a company like Foxconn to open a factory in the US. Maybe in Wisconsin. Oh, wait...

It will be interesting to see when it is cleaned up. As Winston Churchill said, "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key."

I like the idea of putting a "BASURA" sticker on the spike protein. But in order for it to make a difference in disease outcomes you'd have to flood the body with stickers. The immune system scales efficiently when needed. It's going to be interesting to see where this research goes. If and when...

Whatever happened to down-shifting? On my old bike, I can go up a steep hill easily. Just slowly. If the pedaling is too hard, you're in the wrong gear. The VanMoof with a paddle shifter would be much more usable.

When I was young and working odd construction jobs, drywall work was kind of fun, except when I had to put up a ceiling. Having to hold a sheet of drywall with one hand while the other is hammering nails upwards, that was hard. It would be easier now with nail guns. If I were to automate drywall...

I hear you about California locations that are not as rock-centric. It's a bit of a challenge. California is tectonically active. Geology can be dramatic and beautiful in its own way. If you want to get a feel for the western landscape and how it came to be, I recommend John McPhee's Pulitzer...

It looks like Crew-1 are demonstrating how they will operate the Dragon touchscreen controls through their spacesuit gloves. Anyway, congratulations to Commander Glover! I'm sure he will do America proud, and all humans who are inspired by space and the vision of a better future.

A friend was without power for two weeks after Hurricane Sandy. He ran a laptop and his router using his hybrid car as a generator. I found out when I sent him some content for his website and he replied that it was being uploaded by Prius power. He said it was easy to connect the hybrid battery...

Beijing to Belgium is roughly 10,000 miles. At an average pace of 4 miles per day, it would take 2,500 days to walk, or 7 years. A fit person can easily walk 20 miles in a day. Averaging 4 miles per day leaves lots of time for food gathering, cooking, mending, trading with the locals, and...

If 5 days of treatment is more beneficial than 10 days, by extrapolation it follows that 1 day would be even better. If the trend continues, 1/10,000 days of treatment could effect a cure. But no, 0 days would be going too far. It could create a medical singularity. At the very least, we need to...

Imagine if it had three wheel drive.

The late Jim Gray transferred large amounts of data between sites by shipping servers filled with hard drives. Imagine what he could have done with some of these boxes.

It must have cost more than $6 million to design and create the infrastructure for retrieving the fairings. It makes sense because the cost will be amortized over a lot of launches. SpaceX is intense about going after every possible win, large and small.

This is good diplomacy, including leaving the door open for Russia and China. Remember, the Apollo-Soyuz collaboration was with the Soviet Union, also known as "The Evil Empire." The Artemis Accords could be helpful in the same way Apollo-Soyuz and the International Space Station were helpful...

That's a strange metaphor to use. Most of the USA is still in lockdown because we don't have effective testing. It would be really nice if it were safe to get out of the barn more often.

Lamprey v. Sharks.

The article describes cell sorting, which is a thing, but the two studies used an analyzer. The T-cell study specifically mentions a FACSymphony A5. The NK cell study just says FACSymphony but there's a picture that definitely is an A5, not the S6 sorter. Basically the physical process of...

I remember when they broke up the old AT&T. Then they allowed the Baby Bells to acquire each other and we ended up with an effective duopoly instead of the former monopoly. The new AT&T is large enough to have all the failings of the old AT&T. At least the old AT&T ran Bell Labs. So what do we...