NASA plans an escape system for its future astronauts. Of course, the entire cost of this escape system could be eliminated if NASA got rid of human astronauts. TAE looks forward to another year of addressing the fact that NASA is the Federal Government's "Bridge to Nowhere" but no one has the moxie to say so, and is excited that the decade in which the shuttle fleet will cease operations is at hand!
On several occasions, TAE has written that artificial dams, though noble in design and effective in use, are antiquated methods of creating artificial water reserves where they should not be - while taking that water from where it actually belongs. TAE also holds that artificial dams wreak havoc on local and global ecosystems by disrupting the flow of fauna and enabling invading species to flourish. Now scientists suspect that artificial dams create negative effects on the local and global weather pattern as well. TAE looks forward to another year of eviscerating the Federal Government's insane policy on natural resources, and is excited to see the Solar cycle causing what may be one of the coldest decades on record.
TAE has promised that the increasing integration of human and machine (the Human-Machine Interface) will be the breakthrough technology frontier of the next decade. Here, an over-reported, over-hyped article talks about Dr. Babak Parviz' bionic contact lenses. TAE has some experience in this area; although the idea of circuits on a contact lens is a massive breakthrough, the intense over-prediction of everything from HUDs to x-ray vision leaves TAE's head spinning and reminds him of this great XKCD comic. TAE looks forward to a year of dashing hopes and cutting bold predictions off at the knees, and is excited that although skeptical, he really believes that by the time his daughter becomes a teenager she'll want implanted devices for Christmas.
TAE always looks forward to articles that claim futuristic technology is impossible, because usually that technology is completely possible just restrictively expensive. This article is a good round-up of several methods of interstellar travel, with actually decent plausabilities attached to each travel method. Give it a look. TAE looks foward to another year of proposing technologically possible, though politically and fiscally insane, ideas that would make this planet dramatically better for humanity, and looks forward to a decade of those ideas getting tossed around and summarily dismissed!
Best to all in 2010!
-TAE
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Sunday, 3 January 2010
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