Where is my Flying Car?
Ruminations about the way the future was -- and might be.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Eleven Days in May
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Amidst all the hype surrounding the coronavirus, I thought it would be useful to find some perspective on how bad it really is. One of the b...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
The spherical 5-bar linkage
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I've been working on one, and amused to find that the physical construction and control software took about the same amount of time. Her...
Thursday, April 30, 2020
20-20 Nanometer Hindsight
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It's always a good idea to ask people like me, who claim to be futurists, just how well their predictions are coming along. Even more so...
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Monday, April 6, 2020
A possible SARS-Cov-2 proxy
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Let us presume that you wish to prevent contracting, or spreading, this virus. Obviously you should avoid those behsviors and environments m...
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Saturday, November 30, 2019
An electric car economy
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Recently, Brad Templeton posted a column at Forbes examining whether an electric car economy could handle peak-travel holiday loads. The ma...
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Exploding galaxies and climate change
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There was recently posted on the physics preprint server Arxiv.com, a paper soon to be published in The Astrophysical Journal about a huge ...
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Can Sheridan make it?
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Of the SF TV series of the past century, Babylon 5 was probably the one that came closest to accuracy in its physics. Unlike the ubiquitous ...
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