Robot vessels used to cap Gulf of Mexico oil leak - but why no failsafe? ∞
Update, I didn’t realise the blowout-preventer was the failsafe — but it failed!
I am amazed that there appears not to be a failsafe shutoff valve on the oil well on...
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Photographic record of the Bush Presidency ∞
Errol Morris at the New York Times has posted a fantastic photographic record of George W. Bush’s presidency.
During the last week of the Bush administration, I asked the head photo...
NASA to cut Hubble ∞
NASA’s latest budget which is a mere $16,500,000,000, will not have enough funding to keep the orbiting Hubble telescope in orbit. Instead they plan to spend $75 million to...