When NASA’s DART satellite bumped into another spacecraft during an attempted a “proximity operation”—think the docking sequence to The Blue Danube Waltz in 2001: A Space Odyssey , only clumsy—some folks were pretty embarrased. As usually happens with a high profile failure, NASA convened convenes a blue-ribbon panel of graybeards … oh you get the …
Communicating with SSBNs
by | 2006-04-24 | 2 Comments
I’ve been reading, and enjoying, Ann Finkbeiner’s The Jasons: The Secret History of Science’s Postwar Elite, an account of the Jason scientific advisory panel. One chapter details a Jason study that led to the deployment of two extremely low frequency (ELF) radio transmitters in Wisconsin and Michigan to communicate with submarines deep underwater: Besides nonattenuation, …
Get Enriched or Die Tryin'
by | 2006-04-21 | 1 Comment
I missed The Daily Show but reliable sources tell me that was the headline. Update: A reader sends along the link. Jon Stewart is brilliant.
Iran News Online
by | 2006-04-19 | 7 Comments
Some of you may be regular readers of Managing the Atom’s Iran News—a daily e-mail compilation of news stories related to Iran and the nuclear fuel cycle. We’ve moved the service online, supplemented by a weekly e-mail summary. http://www.managing-the-atom.org/ The site focuses on providing short news summaries and the odd opinion piece. The whole thing …
