Via a new cell-squeezing device.
Faster, please.
Category Archives: Business
A New Alloy
A low-fatigue shape-memory alloy that can handle ten million cycles.
I can think of lots of applications for that. I wonder if it can be printed?
Video Issues
OK, Linux people. Blender will let me make to edit and export a video as an AVI JPEG, but it refuses to export the synched audio to it. However, it will export the audio by itself as a .flac.
Does anyone know any separate tools that would allow me to synch that audio file with the video?
[Update a while later]
OK, VLC sort of works. Problem is that for some reason it really messes up the title when I add audio. If I were to post the MP4 and .flac files, could someone else try to synch them?
[Update late afternoon]
OK, I tried this:ffmpeg -i RoadToMars.wav -i 0001-9000.avi RoadToMarsAudio.avi
Continue reading Video Issues
Space Settlement
Rick Tumlinson says the concept is taking hold within the space community.
Meanwhile, the Center For American Progress is having a symposium on the past and future of human spaceflight. Interestingly, as Jeff Foust notes on Twitter, NASA isn’t involved. Interesting also that it’s sponsored by a lefty institution. I suspect that this topic may set off a civil war on that side of the spectrum.
Another Private Mars Venture
These people want to set up at the pole. “Looking for alien life” doesn’t seem compatible with settlement, though, unless you don’t care if you contaminate or wipe it out.
ObamaCare’s Intent
Megan McArdle has what may seem like a crazy idea to some: Just read the law.
Russia’s Space Problems
They think they understand the cause of the Proton failure, but not that of the Progress.
Migrating To Mars
Shouldn’t we solve poverty first?
No.
To Fix Higher Education
It’s absurd that they come close to outnumbering faculty, let alone when it actually happens.
The Case Against Science
“Much of it, perhaps half, is untrue.”
The incentives are quite screwed up.