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Posted on December 24, 2022December 23, 2022

DON’T GET TOO EXCITED ABOUT NUCLEAR FUSION

This breakthrough is checking the first box of many, many, many boxes that have to be checked before a viable fusion reactor can exist. Here’s what you need to know.

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Posted on March 2, 2019February 19, 2019

CHINA WANTS TO PUT A SOLAR FARM IN SPACE BECAUSE NONE OF THEM READ MY BLOG

Remember four years ago when I wrote a blog about how space-based solar power is a terrible idea and won’t work? Now, Engadget is reporting that China wants to do exactly what I was talking about in that post, which will still not be possible for the same reasons and because of science.

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Posted on February 25, 2019March 7, 2019

ARE MILLENNIALS KILLING THE SUNDIAL INDUSTRY?

According to an article in The Telegraph, sundials are at risk of dying out. This will come as shocking news, no doubt, to anyone that thought sundials had already died out, which is everyone.

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Posted on August 1, 2016November 8, 2017

COULD THIS BE THE WORLD’S FIRST NUCLEAR-POWERED AIRLINER? (NO.)

On January 5, 2011, I wrote the following: “Designer” is a dangerous term, because it usually means some crazy person with ridiculous ideas who then makes CAD drawings or actual…

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Posted on April 20, 2015November 8, 2017

THREE REASONS THIS ROCKET WON’T SEND US TO MARS

Ever been to the website Elite Daily?  If you haven’t, don’t bother.  Home of such journalistic masterpieces as “Zayn Malik Isn’t Worried About Leaving One Direction Because His Fiance Is…

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Posted on April 4, 2015November 8, 2017

SPACE-BASED SOLAR POWER: DON’T GET TOO EXCITED

This has come up before and never gotten a ton of mainstream attention, but I saw it again and thought I’d address it.

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Posted on March 3, 2015May 12, 2016

YOU ARE NOT A TETRACHROMAT, AND THIS GRAPHIC IS BULLSHIT

Recently there was a schism on the internet between people about the color of a dress.  That led to all kinds of scientific articles about how we perceive color differently, memes…

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Posted on December 8, 2014February 23, 2015

I WATCHED “VERTICAL LIMIT” (AGAIN) SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO

If you’ve never seen Vertical Limit, good for you.  If you’ve never even heard of it, even better.  It came out in 2000 and somehow made $215 million on a…

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Posted on May 24, 2014May 20, 2014

CAROLE R. DAVIS NEEDS TO SHUT THE FUCK UP

Doubtless there are some among you who are already mad at me for being so rude to this innocent woman in my title.  First of all, it’s paraphrased from the…

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Posted on May 17, 2014March 17, 2015

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR…

Obviously the classic song ends that phrase with “your dreams come true.” Then, as I’m sure you’ve seen, some smartass decided to put a modern and more cynical spin on…

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Posted on February 15, 2014February 21, 2014

22 STUPID PEOPLE HOLDING SIGNS

As I’m pretty sure everyone on the internet knows by now, Bill Nye recently had a debate with Ken Ham about whether creationism was a viable explanation for the origins…

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Posted on January 25, 2014January 27, 2014

SIX REASONS WE’RE NOT GETTING A MOON ELEVATOR

A while ago, several news outlets of varying degrees of reputability reported on the intentions of a company called Liftport to build a space elevator, but not on the Earth…

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Posted on March 10, 2013March 16, 2015

THE MOST AWESOME THING IN SPACE (IF YOU HAVE THE MATURITY OF A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD)

There’s a lot of science that’s kind of boring if you don’t understand it or its implications. I get that. But there’s also a lot of stuff that’s awesome in…

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Posted on March 1, 2013January 26, 2014

DEATH FROM THE SKIES! OR SOMETHING.

First of all, the first sentence of this post’s title is taken from Phil Plait’s book of the same name, which is awesome.  It looks like this. You should buy…

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Posted on September 7, 2012January 25, 2014

BLOW ME, YOU’LL FEEL BETTER

Yes, I know, that was a somewhat crude title.  It is not, however, misleading. You see, a little while ago I read on Inhabitots (Inhabitat’s despicable hellspawn) the following headline:…

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