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 to not expose criminal conduct. Yes that is right, all data that exposes any criminal [...]
Archive for the ‘Demotivation’ Category
NASA’s Mess
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, industry, tagged ares i, Augustine, contractor, Danny Deger, ESAS, Federal Acquisition Regulations, ITAR, Rationality, SBU on Friday 2009.10.09 | Leave a Comment »
Economics and the Price of Nature
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Journalism, Models, Nature, Science, idiocracy, tagged climate change, Valuation, Nature, Economics, Sagoff, Costanza, Cost on Thursday 2009.09.10 | Leave a Comment »
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 hypothetical economic activity by those people that gave them one dollar in total while destroying the glacier [...]
Denialists
Posted in Demotivation, Motivation, Science, idiocracy on Tuesday 2009.09.01 | Leave a Comment »
are not interested in honest debate, handled at the Denialism blog, link via Frank Bi’s comment at Only In It For The Gold.
Tragedy of the Commons, part N
Posted in Demotivation, idiocracy, tagged Lapland, Reindeers, Lichen, Dwarf Birch, overgrazing on Wednesday 2009.08.26 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Classical, really. We have both the local and global scale here.
I wouldn’t have trouble with people [...]
Interview With a Criminal
Posted in Demotivation, Journalism, tagged Botnet, Cisco, Internet security on Sunday 2009.08.23 | Leave a Comment »
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 to a multinode network that can be sold to other customers for a profit. Perceiving himself [...]
Engineers Seen as Uncreative
Posted in Demotivation, Motivation, idiocracy on Saturday 2009.08.22 | Leave a Comment »
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 and people are proud of it. That’s probably why the Helsinki school of architecture will make [...]
Reality and Future
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Depot, ESA, Global, ISRU, Lunar, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged NASA, Augustine, Depot, Jeff Greason, HSF on Tuesday 2009.08.11 | 4 Comments »
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 but we shouldn’t – cause we couldn’t stay anyway”. Exactly. That’s the problem with NASA. (or the [...]
My Letter to the Augustine Panel
Posted in Demotivation, Depot, NASA, Navelgazing, RLV:s, Science, tagged heartburn on Tuesday 2009.08.11 | 2 Comments »
In the previous post.
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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 – rather that what ever reasonable I have ever done, it has had zero effect on the world.
There [...]
Heavy Lift Unnecessary
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Depot, ISRU, NASA, RLV:s, industry, tagged NASA, Augustine, Depot on Tuesday 2009.08.11 | 5 Comments »
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 architectures must be based on rationality above all. There is no excuse whatsoever to do things on [...]
Kinds of Denialism
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Journalism, idiocracy, industry, tagged co2, coal, nuclear, Germany, France, WWF, Scorecard on Tuesday 2009.08.11 | Leave a Comment »
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 neighbouring Britain and Germany which use mostly coal. So, since WWF and Allianz don’t like it, [...]
