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Ideology > Engineeering and Logic
A couple of reports mixed here, because they go to the same point. First, South Australia had a power outage last week. Ordinarily, that’s not news, but in this case, I gather nearly the whole state...
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Something Different
I had a wild hair yesterday and suddenly wondered if one could still sail on a regularly scheduled ocean liner across the Atlantic. Turns out you can, on Cunard’s Queen Mary II. From what I read, I...
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Godspeed, John Glenn. Ad Astra
Then there was the technology. Rockets exploded during testing, sometimes with the astronauts watching. In 2012, on the 50th anniversary of his Mercury flight, Glenn reflected on the danger. “It was...
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Common Sense Tuesday
Most of you know that I really like the liberal arts, especially history and English. Kind of shows in the blog, doesn’t it? Taught properly they teach one critical thinking skills that one needs to...
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Reality is Real
Something a bit different today, but it still follows our long running themes. Both you never had it so good as well as reality is real. The world we live in was built by men who understood reality and...
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von Richtofen Day
Well, we missed this one yesterday, but GreatSatan’sGirlfriend reminded us. Gott Mit Uns! 100 years ago today, Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen was awarded Imperial Deutschland’s highest...
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50 Years Ago
last Friday, Apollo 1 burned on the pad at Cape Kennedy, lost with it were Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom as Command Pilot, Edward H. White II as Senior Pilot, and Donn F. Eisele as Pilot. I was a disaster...
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Paraplegic British Cop Walks
What a remarkable story! But in a way, it’s not. It’s what happens in societies that are free to develop new ideas and revolutionary concepts. Remember, there was a day when the steam engine was just...
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Icons Receeding
As many of you know, I’ve worked all my life in the electrical/electronic industries, especially where they intersect. But my hobbies are also mostly in that area, especially radio communication. But...
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Feeding the World, Disrupting the Markets, That’s America, Too
Norman Borlaug should be one of the American heroes of the world. Instead, many revile him. Why? Borlaug’s life was one of extraordinary paradoxes: A child of the Iowa prairie during the Great...
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Fracking OPEC
Well, we’ve mentioned that this would happen a few times, here and elsewhere. And it has. Jazz Shaw wrote back in December. If you’ve been watching the oil market half as closely as Wall Street in...
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Memorial Day Weekend
Well, we’ve made it to the traditional start of an American summer, Memorial Day. We’ll be talking about various aspects of that throughout the weekend. But for today, let’s just relax. If I were asked...
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Remembering Rosie
Mostly this weekend we will speak of the (mostly) men who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. That’s what the holiday is for, after all. But those guys went to war, wearing clothes, eating food,...
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Quo Vadis, NATO?
We’ve spent the weekend looking back on the heroics that led to Memorial Day. It is meet and fit that we do so, for in many ways that is where the American character was forged. From the loyalty of...
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The Yanks Are Coming, Again
John Hinderaker over at Powerline caught something that I should have. It happens. He quotes the Science and Environmental Policy Project’s The Week That Was: Mr Hilton discusses the highly successful...
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Reflections on a Trip
Six years ago today, I published post number one, on Nebraska Energy Observer. As with many others, I tried to draw conclusions from observations. Those tend to be the posts I like best, although I...
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Maiden (Speeches) and Gods in Action
Kemi Badenoch. Remember that name. If the Brit Tories have any sense at all this girl has a pretty much unlimited future. There’s a tradition in Parliament that your first speech (your maiden speech)...
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A Cousin’s Playdate
Seapower as done by real Navies The picture is of the USS George W. Bush and HMS Queen Elizabeth plus escorts doing joint work-ups off the coast of Scotland. The first time in years that the RN has had...
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Googling Censorship
So, this story is out, and tell me why I’m not surprised. I noticed it from John Hinderaker at PowerLine, and he linked on to PJ Media, which has a long story by Paula Boyard up. I suspect it going to...
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A Hell of an Engineer
We’ve lost another hero and in fact, a hell of an engineer and pilot. By now you’ve figured out that we Boilers hold an almost proprietary interest in space, not least since both the first and most...
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