Friday, December 05, 2014

IEEE SPECTRUM: How I stopped cosmonauts from carrying guns.

Frankly I'm less than impressed. Spectrum has gone from being a technical magazine to a metrosexual semi-technical magazine.
UNMANNED HELICOPTERS could soon battle US wildfires.

Here's a data sheet on the K-MAX. It's a nifty little helicopter, but I don't think I would want to fly on one of its 'outdoor' passenger seats.
REMEMBER #SHIRTSTORM? One small shirt for a man, one giant leap backward for women. Mollie Hemingway punches back over at The Federalist while Ammo Grrrll
shoots back.
CAMPUS REFORM: Professor dresses as Dick Cheney, 'shoots' students during [political science] class.

I used to believe that the University of Nebraska was one of the few remaining sane institutions of higher learning. Now I'm having to rethink....
PASSIVE RADIATOR cools by sending heat straight to outer space. Yeah, well, what if you're a pilot (or a bird) blinded by the reflection?

Those unintended consequences sure are pesky....