Category Archives: Mathematics
The Space Technology Curve
I don’t usually post from Facebook, but Jeff Greason has an interesting/depressing thought:
In the Star Trek episode “Tomorrow is Yesterday”, Kirk is told “I’m going to lock you up for two hundred years”. He looks at the camera (very nearly breaking the fourth wall), and says “that ought to be just about right” — in other words, telling the viewer that Star Trek is set about 200 years in the future.
That episode was filmed in 1968.
That was 50 years ago.
Somehow, I don’t feel we’ve made 1/4 of the progress from Apollo to Star Trek
As Mike Heney points out over there, we haven’t even made a quarter of the progress from Apollo back to Apollo.
Irreproducibility
The Childrens’ Crusade
Thoughts on the modern version of it. What’s horrible is that children like Greta Thunberg are being terrified by leftist propaganda.
Climate Science
Thoughts on its “noble corruption.”
A New Grand Minimum?
What’s going on with the sun, and what does it mean for climate hysteria?
Climate Sensitivity
What is the plausible worst case?
The Apocalypse Primary
Yes, it’s economic lunacy to think that the U.S., let alone California, can prevent whatever climate change is induced by CO2 emissions.
Atheism
It’s not consistent with the scientific method. I agree.
The CDC
Its gun data is getting even moreless reliable.
That’s pretty bad, since it’s never been reliable, or trustworthy as a basis for policy.