Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
So, I’ve noted before on this blog that when I was in high school I did a senior research paper on the impending threat of doom that “Global Cooling” presented to civilization. Since then I’ve watched as a series of environmental disasters has been hyped up by an entirely corrupt and incompetent press. Just in [...]
Yes, I am still fascinated with the potential of 3D printing. I am still regularly checking on the progress of the current 3D printing technologies, and I am looking into the cost and convenience of 3D outsourced printing. I have been using “Sketchup” lately. I need to use it more. I think today I’m going [...]
I don’t know how much differently my mind works than other people’s minds. For example, when I see the discovery announced of a “new earthlike planet discovered!” my immediate reaction does not stop with “Oh cool!” It immediately jumps to “Hmm… if that planet is actually a rocky planet with surface water, could humans actually [...]
Macintosh moment indeed. The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World | Wired Design | Wired.com. The BotCave is home to MakerBot, a company that for nearly four years has been bringing affordable 3-D printers to the masses. But nothing MakerBot has ever built looks like the new printer these workers are currently constructing. [...]
Well, someone with some actual cash is actually going to pursue exactly the space exploitation approach I’ve been championing for literally all of my adult life. This is good news. James Cameron, Google Founder Back Space-Mining Venture – WSJ.com. A new company backed by two Google Inc. GOOG -0.54% billionaires, film director James Cameron and [...]
There’s room to grow with Shapeways as well. Once you’re satisfied with your design, you can list it for sale on the site. You choose the material options and markup, and they handle the ordering, printing, and shipping. “Three-D modeling started as a hobby,” says van der Linden, but after launching a product line that [...]
EMC2 Fusion doesn’t have tens of millions of venture capital to play with — but it does have a $7.9 million Navy contract to test a plasma technology known as inertial electrostatic confinement fusion, also known as Polywell fusion. The idea is to accelerate positively charged ions in an electrical cage to such an extent that [...]
I’ve been predicting the merging of mobile computing and desktop computing for years now. And just this week I saw my first commercial for a smartphone docking station that essentially turns your smartphone into a laptop. Next will be the wireless docking station. Soon you’ll just have to walk up to a screen and keyboard, [...]
When my father-in-law passed away one item from his garage collection of life’s detritus fell into my hands. It was an old bamboo fly rod. Since I am the only fly fisherman in the immediate family, it was naturally assumed that the fly rod would find a home in my fishing collection. Of course I [...]
Money, that is. A few months ago I dove into the deep end of the economics pool along with a group of highly intelligent folks on a Dean’s World thread about the likely consequences of Obama’s frenetic and profligate spending policies. I learned a lot about macro-economics at that time. Since then the debate has [...]
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