Category Archives: Blinded By Science

Raise the Apollo 11!

Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2012 by Keith

The Apollo 11 booster has been found: On July 16, 1969, the world watched as the Apollo 11 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, with three crewmen on board. Four days later, Neil Armstrong became … Continue reading →

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No Other Option

Posted on Monday, November 15, 2010 by Keith

There’s an old (mostly apocryphal) story about Cortez, and how when he reached the New World, he burned his ships. This sent a clear message to his men, we make this expedition work, here in this untested, foreign world, or … Continue reading →

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Number 1: Stop Eating Patato Chips

Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Keith

Over at io9, Annalee Newitz has a grand little editorial taking the piss out of the Singularity: It’s not that we couldn’t anticipate these problems, and even generate some Plan B ideas for dealing with them. But it’s hard to … Continue reading →

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Cybermen with Italian Accents

Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2009 by Keith

Charlie Stross has found an odd turn of events in Italian Politics: …transhumanism is going to influence the next century because, unless we are very unlucky indeed, the biotechnology, nanotechnology, and telecommunications industries are going to deliver goods that combine … Continue reading →

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Happy Lunar Landing Day!

Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 by Keith

40 years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. Think about that over the next few days, while you wondering what to do with this world we inherited, that sometimes seems so broken and wrong. We can do extraordinary things … Continue reading →

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Fiddling With Code While the Matrix Burns

Posted on Monday, February 9, 2009 by Keith

You may have heard that the Singularity is coming. Or maybe not. Either way, you should know that several people, some of them even smart, are all about the idea that humanity is on the verge of some unfathomable technological … Continue reading →

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In a Post LHC World, Anything Can Happen

Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 by Keith

You may have noticed this week that the world was not destroyed. While this tends to happen on a fairly regular basis, this week the world didn’t blow up in spite of unfounded concern about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). … Continue reading →

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Weeping On Saturn to Last All Century

Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 by Keith

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

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Happy Darwin Day!

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 by Keith

On this day, 199 years ago, one of the most important humans ever to crawl from the primordial slime was born: Charles Darwin. 149 years ago, the culture wars began, with the publication of one of the greatest books ever … Continue reading →

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Sputnik, Comrads!

Posted on Thursday, October 4, 2007 by Keith

And I had this great post half written in my head, all about how Sputnik changed the world and all the technology we use today, from cell phones, to GPS to the Internet wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for a … Continue reading →

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