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Ales Rarus
A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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physics
Fractured Fairytales
Kudos to Joe Carter for doing his part to spread the truth about the "Galileo
Affair".
This is a story about Galileo Galilei. It's not the story about an enlightened scientist being persecuted by a narrow-minded Catholic Church because that story is (mostly) a myth. It's not a story about a great scientific […]
Science (and Budget) Fiction
In yet another feeble attempt to copy Reagan's policies (like trickle-down economics),
Bush is trying to create his own version of the Star Wars (SDI) program. The first
one was science fiction created to scare the Soviet Union into spending itself to
death. This one might spend us to death.
[…]
I Don't Know That!…Aaaaaaaaaaaah….
"Too much time on my hands" - Styx
Estimating the Airspeed
Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms.
by Jonathan Corum
"After spending some time last month trying to develop alternate graphic presentations
for kinematic ratios in […]
Road to Dystopia
Utopia theory
"From theories of pedestrian movement and traffic flow to voting processes, economic
markets and war, researchers are striving towards a physics of society"
"'It may be', said US sociologist George Lundberg in 1939, 'that
the next great developments in the social sciences will come not from professed
[…]
Myopic
It gives "Nasa 33% of its results for less than 2% of its budget." Of course it'll be retired. We can't have cost-effective equipment operated by the government. People might start expecting it all the time.
Eyeing a post-Hubble Universe By Rachel Clarke
"Not since Galileo turned his telescope towards the heavens in 1610 […]
