We (Don't) Have the Technology (Anymore, but) We can Rebuild It

We (Don't) Have the Technology (Anymore, but) We can Rebuild It

There are few things that drive me more up the wall than crappy reasoning behind why the moon landings were faked. Now, I'm not part of the "it was a fake" crowd, but given the pressures we were operating udner, the conspiracy to murder Kennedy, etc., I could understand people asking questions. And one of the problems smart people have is that we can go down some very strange rabbit holes indeed when working outside of our areas of expertise - one day I may go into how long I spent digging thro…

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A Few Videos

One of the channels I've paid attention to for the last year or so goes by the name Aydin Paladin. One of the rare non-leftists in the social sciences, she looks copiously backs up her videos with deep dives into the actual results of studies. This can be somewhat pedantic at times, but it's useful to see the actual statistics and not what's usually reported. I know a lot of you guys are short on time so I'll tell you up front: if you have only time for one, look at the…

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Reality Meets Fiction

Reality Meets Fiction

Yes, the massive howitzers of the ogreverse have a [real-world inspiration]( https://infogalactic.com/i](GHOST_URL /content/images/2018/05/Nuclear_artillery_test_Grable_Event_-_Part_of_Operation_Upshot-Knothole.jpg) Here’s a video of the Upshot Knothole Grable test firing of Atomic Annie [https://infogalactic.com/info/M65_atomic_cannon].…

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Two Movies and Climate Science

Two Movies and Climate Science

Scott Adams has been posting quite a bit on the subject recently [http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158361670451/two-more-movies-on-one-screen]. All of this of course from a persuasion outlook, and specifically, for calling out BS and when people don’t have the answers they claim they do [http://blog.dilbert.com/post/157823678756/tucker-carlson-induces-cognitive-dissonance-in] . > Tucker then asked Nye a simple question about climate science. He asked how much of the warming is caused by human activ…

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A Bit of Catching Up

A Bit of Catching Up

Finished Watching: “Castle in the Sky”, Directed by Hiyao Miyazaki [http://superversivesf.com/2017/03/01/finished-watching-castle-sky-directed-hiyao-miyazaki/] > What an incredible film. Truly incredible. > If anybody hasn’t seen it, and has the remotest interest in adventure films – I mean, like, if you thought “Indiana Jones” was “sort of okay” – watch this movie right now. To me it suffers a bit – mostly because Mark Hamill’s voice in the english dub throws me out of it for some odd reas…

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