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explorations: November 2013
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Thursday, November 28, 2013. Visions of the Future. I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer. Don't get me wrong. Some things did change. Airplanes use jets, television has arrived, nuclear bombs bring the possibility of total annihilation, and there's the computer, bringing along the Internet. A much closer approximation of the effect of the computer was given by Isaac Asimov in his short story,...
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explorations: May 2014
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Monday, May 26, 2014. War of the Roses Redux: The Ending. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,. And every tongue brings in a several tale,. And every tale condemns me for a villain. In November, I reported. Communities. One was Leicester, where he was found, and the other was York, represented by the Plantagenet Alliance. You can read the earlier piece. To get the details. It just didn't work out that way. The importan...
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explorations: Who ARE these guys?
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Sunday, August 08, 2010. Who ARE these guys? When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. By Walter Isaacson, which I read some time ago. The picture is a group photo. Max Planck, who some consider as the father of quantum theory;. Marie Curie, a two-time Nobel winner, who discovered the nature of radioactivity;. Neils Bohr, developer of the Copenhagen model of the structure of the atom. Erwin Schroedinger, cr...
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explorations: Discovery Slowly Sinks into the Sunset
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Monday, August 18, 2014. Discovery Slowly Sinks into the Sunset. All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? I admit it: I am a veritable broken record when it comes to the subject of the so-called science and history channels. Note: If you're lucky one of the history channels will tell you what a “broken record” might be. Science Channel has pretty much become a YouTube outlet, with supposed ...
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explorations: April 2014
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Monday, April 21, 2014. So long, Cosmos. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. Evidently ain't going to happen. So I'm done watching. I got half-way through the last show with the overwrought cartoon about Clair Patterson. Who was burned as a heretic because, well, he was. Please note that I do not approve of burning people because they don't fol...
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explorations: Falcon Flops and Phoenix Foibles
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Saturday, August 09, 2008. Falcon Flops and Phoenix Foibles. Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. SpaceX must be doing lots of research, because they sure as heck don't know what they're doing. When last I took note. Well, even the ever-optimistic Mr. Musk is having trouble calling the most recent flop. If the big brother to this firecracker, Falcon 9 (what happened to 2 through 8? Is as much of a success...
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explorations: September 2014
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Wednesday, September 03, 2014. A Little Further Down the Tube. Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. I know, I know. I'm a tiresome old curmudgeon when it comes to the subject of non-fiction television, most recently discoursed here. But, the situation is becoming so ridiculous, I am moved, once again, to raise a voice in pitiful protest. Recen...
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explorations: The SFF Hits the Nail on the Thumb
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Tuesday, August 01, 2006. The SFF Hits the Nail on the Thumb. You can be sincere and still be stupid. Charles F. Kettering. However, what I really wanted to discuss is the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF). According to the provocatively titled article. 8220;NASA Vision Plans Doomed, Space Advocacy Group Reports”. What these supporters of private enterprise want is for the government to shift a few billion bucks from the CEV and i...
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explorations: Discovering Hatshepsut
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Monday, July 16, 2007. For the last 100 years, curators sat down to drink tea, but they did not do their jobs, . How many artifacts are in the basement? Before I start, I've got to get something off my chest. The History-Discovery axis of channels has had some dreadful moments such as the KV-63 programs. And the Jesus family tomb debacle. They foisted on us last year. The new program involves the investigation that determine...
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explorations: Neanderthal: Smarter than We Thought?
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A layman's view of things scientific, historic, and generally non-fictional. Sunday, September 07, 2008. Neanderthal: Smarter than We Thought? I bet when neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, 'Don't forget the thick, heavy brows.' Then they would get all embarrassed because they remembered they had the big husky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman. The rehabilitation of the Neanderthals goes on and on. A few months ago, British experts claimed. How about...
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