Category Archives: Demotivation

NASA's Mess

Posted on Fri, 2009-10-09 by gravityloss

Danny Deger @ Nasaspaceflight.com forum on Ares I selection in ESAS (I don’t know if this is true, I have little knowledge about the matter): The Ares data isn’t just ITAR, it is Sensitive But Unclassified as it should be … Continue reading →

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Economics and the Price of Nature

Posted on Thu, 2009-09-10 by gravityloss

Assume a glacier that provides summer water for a billion people. What is its value, if it is destroyed by global warming? Since it currently provides services for free, it could be calculated as zero, according to some. Hence, a … Continue reading →

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Denialists

Posted on Tue, 2009-09-01 by gravityloss

are not interested in honest debate, handled at the Denialism blog, link via Frank Bi’s comment at Only In It For The Gold.

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Tragedy of the Commons, part N

Posted on Wed, 2009-08-26 by gravityloss

Acted out in Lapland. Too much reindeers eating up the lichen. Local warming enabling new pests that are killing the dwarf birch trees and even the undergrowth. And the reindeers eat the recovering birch. Everything is turning into a tundra. … Continue reading →

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Interview With a Criminal

Posted on Sun, 2009-08-23 by gravityloss

A Cisco researcher interviews a botnet operator. As the botmaster stated, running a botnet was his business. The criminality of running a botnet was simply a by-product of his primary means of employment. The botmaster’s product is a management interface … Continue reading →

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Engineers Seen as Uncreative

Posted on Sat, 2009-08-22 by gravityloss

Chicago Boyz comments another casual revealing statement. Link via Transterrestrial. A friend of mine who is both an architect and an engineer complains about the astounding lack of understanding of, for example mathematics or structures by architects. It is willfull … Continue reading →

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Reality and Future

Posted on Tue, 2009-08-11 by gravityloss

Jeff Greason is a rational person who simply gets it. It is mind boggling how completely opposite from someone like Mike Griffin he is. See Jeff’s presentation with the Augustine Panel. Paraphrasing, “we could go to Mars with Ares V … Continue reading →

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My Letter to the Augustine Panel

Posted on Tue, 2009-08-11 by gravityloss

In the previous post. – I’ve been very tired and felt completely unable to have any effect on my life or on any other things for the last five days or so. This doesn’t mean that I’ve felt lazy – … Continue reading →

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Heavy Lift Unnecessary

Posted on Tue, 2009-08-11 by gravityloss

There are a lot of implicit assumptions that heavy lifters of this or that throw weight must be used for future exploration beyond low Earth orbit. These “needs” have never been logically derived from anything. Yet space policy and exploration … Continue reading →

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Kinds of Denialism

Posted on Tue, 2009-08-11 by gravityloss

The Green Nuclear kind, be sure to read the comments in German. To summarize, in WWF:s climate score cards, France is scoring pretty badly. Everybody knows that France has about 80% nuclear power in electricity production, much more than the … Continue reading →

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