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[Note: due to the complexity of this mishap, what follows contains more arcana than is healthy for anyone. Also, this will be the last post...

Updates : For particularly outstanding speculation, go here . He is a general aviation pilot and aerospace engineer. He used ATC tracking...

Today this blog turns 1,000. Had it lived up to its grandiose claim, this postiversary would have occurred in July of 2007 or, if one is ch...

"To an even greater extent than the sea, the sky is incredibly unforgiving of human carelessness, incapacity, or neglect." (Unknow...

From Fred Kaplan, who, if memory serves, excoriated Bush for giving Saddam the bum's rush, in Slate : At least five times in the last ...

My son, a freshman at Washington State University, is taking one of those courses that are the backbone of a university's core mission: ...

[This should have been entitled "18 Months Later, Tomorrow Comes". I don't know why this took so long to get to — for me, tim...

Some years ago, so my memory could well be, shall we say, inexact, I suggested at Thought Mesh that the 144,000 terawatt hours of annual gl...