Polygraphs and belief

This article on the Clearancejobs.com website isn’t really an eye-opener (at least it shouldn’t be). And it isn’t that hard to find information about how unreliable polygraphs are. Turns out belief in the system’s infallibility plays a big part. So it’s kind of like religion that way. I do like the part where they […]

Wait, what did they do??? Terminators are in orbit and Skynet is the victim.

No, not British SkyTV–I mean Skynet, from the “Terminator” movie series. So don’t worry, UK citizens, your TV is safe (not necessarily a good thing) and still over-hyped. But China has made some interesting moves in the past few days. China has a very aggressive space program. They’ve stated more than a few times how […]

Extreme close-up–from space (Cassini, to be precise)!!

According to this Weather Underground article, NASA/JPL just put this collage together: Click to see (and embiggen it while there): Shiny, happy people waving hands 40,000 people in 1,400 pictures! Don’t ask about where our responsible government space agency found the time and money, as the US is still struggling to keep NASA relevant and […]

MORE POWER!!!

Okay, okay…this article’s idea has been floating around for a few decades. Given, that in my imaging operations posts we’ve only talked about low earth orbiting (LEO) satellites, and imagery ones at that, there are a few issues with this that you might be acquainted with. But the premise is right. You could set a […]

This sounds bad–doesn’t it?

So, Science World Report tried to spice things up a little with this headline: NASA Announces Coronal Mass Ejection Hurtling Toward Earth from Sun But if you read the article, I hope you understand it’s really not the end of the world. I know, I know–whoever names these things needs to consider what they sound like […]