Tag: video

Mars is brutal

Mars One wants to establish a human settlement on Mars, and fund this decade-long endeavor by involving the whole world as the audience of an interactive, televised broadcast of every aspect of this mission, from the astronaut selections and their preparations to the arrival on Mars and their lives on the Red Planet.

There are already over 80k applicants and there is only one way to get voted off the island: out the airlock.

2023-01-12: A cogent anti-Mars case

we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon. Landing on Mars with existing technology would be a destructive, wasteful stunt whose only legacy would be to ruin the greatest natural history experiment in the Solar System. It would no more open a new era of spaceflight than a Phoenician sailor crossing the Atlantic in 500 B.C. would have opened up the New World. And it wouldn’t even be that much fun.

The Undeading

best PSA ever

Downhill

Can your 4 year old do this? Why not?

City of London

Corporatocracy: 75% of votes are cast by corporations, 25% by people.

Filter those sodas

this would have been a better move by el bloombito: allow all soda sizes, but mandate they be filtered through this.

DARPA is now garbage

DARPA has ~200 employees. not bad for coming up with the internet, GPS, stealth aircraft, speech translation, and the failures are pretty telling too: project orion, hafnium bombs. now it looks like DARPA has been captured by security idiots like current director arati prabhakar where it is all talk about terrrrrrrrists: DARPA: Driving Critical Technological Surprise compare that to the previous darpa director regina durgan in : Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone

can we go back to actual innovation instead of this bs security theater?

Julia Child Remixed

When autotune works, it really works.

A boy and his Atom

Just to be clear, this involved moving 100s of atoms, individually, on the 0.1 nanometer scale. making of at Moving Atoms: Making The World’s Smallest Movie