Monthly Archives: April 2023

Commercial Space Services and Changing Times 0 (0)

This week I’ll talk about the SpaceX Starship and ispace test flights. Whether or not they were successful depends on who’s talking. I’ll also look at the usual hand-wringing over threats to the status quo. News and Views The SpaceX … Continue reading

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A Three-Day Visit: Time Well Spent 0 (0)

My oldest daughter hasn’t been down to visit in more than three years. This week, she had an opportunity: and took it. She arrived Monday and left Wednesday. Good news: we spent a great deal of those three days talking. … Continue reading

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Pax Romana: Good Times, Remembered 0 (0)

“…the glory that was Greece,And the grandeur that was Rome….”(“To Helen,” Edgar Allen Poe (1845) via Wikipedia) I don’t yearn for ‘the good old days’ of my youth, or for more remote golden ages. My memory’s too good, and I’ve … Continue reading

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A Spiral, a Fossil, a Martian Rock and Eye Genes 0 (0)

By Monday afternoon, I’d picked a topic for my ‘Saturday’ post. Since I’ve still got stuff I want to say about Venus, the Orion Nebula, cosmology and ChatGPT, I may not get around to four items from this month’s news: … Continue reading

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ChatGPT and the End of Civilization as We Know It 0 (0)

I’ll be talking about ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, and why I don’t think we’re doomed. Search Engines, Iron Gall Ink and Me I’ll start by admitting that I’m a human. Furthermore, I like technology. I’ve been using software and search engines … Continue reading

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