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NASA is funding Starship development. Only partially, but Starship is an essential part of its lunar strategy. If things continue to go well with Starship, NASA could use it more, and probably will. The big thing that seems to be missing is the kind of leadership that could direct the resources...

In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman describes what he refers to as "System 1" and "System 2" modes of thinking. System 1 is pattern matching. AIs are getting pretty good at it. But most animals are fantastic at it. Animal brains are extremely powerful at pattern matching, and it's not...

Friday night is Art Night in Hanapepe. It's really nice. There are galleries and cafes and the westernmost bookstore in the USA. Jacqueline makes custom aloha shirts. You can pick out the fabric design you want and she measures you and makes it to fit. Pick it up a couple of days later. I have...

My mom sewed name labels on my socks when I was a kid. I remember I had some thick ragg wool socks with my name on them, for many years. The labels were machine embroidered onto a thin cloth ribbon, which came on a roll. Probably Jacquard loom technology. They were cheap and lots of companies...

It greatly exceeded the objective for duration in space. And NASA learned a lot about the faults in the spacecraft. It's no longer a mystery. Now the ball is in Boeing's court to fix it. The test flight was far from picture-perfect, but it's not a total failure either.

I saw the Challenger disaster live on NASA TV and will never forget it. I'm not completely convinced the culture has changed. It should not have been a difficult decision to bring Starliner back empty. But at least the right decision was made. It's a fixed price contract, but Boeing is getting...

Some blood cancers are very treatable. Mine had a 80% survival rate. Better odds than Russian Roulette! So if a patient develops cancer again down the road, it might be treatable with a traditional chemotherapy. Also, researchers are working on different shielding techniques, so there it seems...

Get a boat! Next time, no driving through high water.

Elevation is easily converted to altitude. Just run out of the cave really fast, and there you go.

Read the code before installing any plugin. A well-written plugin will have readable code, even if PHP isn't your thing, which is the case with me. I remember one plugin had code that phoned home. Nope, not installing that one. Admittedly, I'm not reading the code before updating. Maybe I'm...

If anyone can get humans to Mars before 2040, I believe SpaceX can. And yeah, they could drive a CyberTruck over and pick up the samples. But that is the easy part. The hard part is getting back to Earth alive.

The US Chamber of Commerce is headquartered in Washington, DC. What makes them think they can shop their lawsuit around to any district court they want? That would be competition.

I am good at navigation, probably because I was a free range kid. But I have had some terrible experiences using my phone to navigate. The problem seems to be the phone thinks I am facing one direction and I'm actually turned around. Go the wrong way for a block and it becomes obvious and I have...

I own an EV and love it. But I'd be very happy if everyone who can't have an EV drove a hybrid. It would cut our automative emissions in half. Hybrids are more reliable, last longer, and are cheaper to own. They don't require any lifestyle changes, except buying gas less often. It is a...

I hope at some point the game lets you build machines to extract all the CO2 added to the atmosphere from burning those black cubes. Otherwise it is going to get hot in there, and the factory could end up underwater as the sea levels rise.

User name checks out. The legendary Odysseus was the worst navigator of all time, losing all his crew and taking ten years to make it around the Mediterranean, but the greatest ever at improvising clever last-minute solutions.

"the airline believes investing in automation and machine learning technology will lower its expenses". In other words, less money going to airline workers.

Logically, when the limit of the staffing level goes to zero, the market capitalization goes to infinity!

Humans and dogs working together is an ancient tradition. This was a bit of a stretch, because usually the dog is doing something they are really good at, that a human cannot do as well. But it was fun to see.

Dude even has a pub named after him, across from the cathedral.