I only learned of Ferlinghetti from his brief walk-on in The Last Waltz.
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I only learned of Ferlinghetti from his brief walk-on in The Last Waltz.
Every single thing I read about the worsening climate change disaster is scary. They all add up to very, very scary, taken together.
A year ago I obtained one of those electronic induction heaters, because, why not? They’re fascinating. Some blacksmiths use them to produce high point-heat, including bringing small regions of steel to welding heat in about a minute (more or less). Induction heating is also used by some craftspeople to melt/slump glass in home microwave ovens – you put a block of insulating material containing your target into your microwave and turn it on for 10 minutes. Then, if you still have a microwave oven and kitchen, you can let it cool down and examine the contents.
My recent post about F-35s rapidly re-oriented toward the topic of “flying weapons systems that might actually work” so I’d like to speculate a bit. Any of my speculations are informed by some of the excellent SF (C. J. Cherryh, Joe Haldeman) and my experience with computer networking.
We – those of us who are not blinkered and stupid – need to beat the hell out of the drums on the coronavirus vaccines because it’s an incontrovertible example of how science can work.
I know some of the people who are working on the system, that’s my excuse. But the real motivator is my profound and passionate hatred of Verizon.
Stealth is one of the current most secret military technologies. There have been experiments with making just about every military weapon “stealthy” that can be, including the Lockheed Sea Shadow, AKA “The Stealth Fail-Boat.”
This was sent to me in the form of am emailed extended-comment, and I thought it’d be interesting to all; the author is a longtime Commentariat(tm) member. Formatting and light touch editing are by me.
I have a couple ideas for how I want to do castings of Jack’s paw. One involves a negative mold, the other a positive.
Here’s a quick update on Jack’s paw.