I never thought I’d ever read of layoffs in the space program. Evidently with the shuttle program retiring in a year the agency doesn’t see the need for so many workers. Sigh.

Group living in close quarters is not an easy thing. When I was in Israel in 1985 we had about 18 people sharing a house. There were four bedrooms, maybe five and several people slept on the roof. We got along and we didn’t get along. We broke into cliques. [...]

That it were possible to truly free space from politics.

Let’s assume that we’ve already developed a self-gravitating ship. By that I mean a ship that is able to bend space in such a way as to propel itself from one spot to another in the galaxy. How we do that is the subject of numerous blog posts. So we’ve [...]

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know [...]