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The Future of Humanity, part 2: what went wrong?
Read more: The Future of Humanity, part 2: what went wrong?Let’s face it: Today we don’t live in the future we (or our parents) envisioned. Civilization was not eliminated or at least decimated by a nuclear war – at least not yet. TV hasn’t dumbed down all of society as predicted. But we also didn’t get our flying cars and there is definitely no big […]
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The Future of Humanity, part 1: so last century
Read more: The Future of Humanity, part 1: so last centuryWhen in the 1960s and 70s technology seemed to jump forward with new inventions and discoveries practically every week, with the crown of course being the first manned landing on the Moon by Apollo 11, it looked like it would only be a short two decades until we would have humans live in a permanent […]
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Rebooting Reality, part 1
Read more: Rebooting Reality, part 1I have often wondered what would happen if we could start over with something. For example language. Let’s say we wind back time to the beginning of the development of language – assuming, for the moment, there is such a thing as a starting point. If we let it run again from that moment how […]
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UFOs have landed – and they are….WTF?
Read more: UFOs have landed – and they are….WTF?After listening to the 11/23/2008 episode of Tim Harold’s Paranormal Podcast featuring an interview with Stanton T. Friedman I had some more thoughts about the relationship of the UFO phenomenon with Science. I want to say upfront that while I more often than not highly disagree with Tim Harold’s guests he is an excellent interviewer […]
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Call the Police video contest
Read more: Call the Police video contestOk. After building a greenscreen in my basement, enlisting my kids as actors, digging deeper into Final Cut Express, Toon Boom Studio and a few other applications I noticed that I still would need some “authentic” footage to put together a video about UFOs. Luckily there is youtube which is full of obscure (and not […]
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Improvising with LEGOs
Read more: Improvising with LEGOsMy wife actually got me a set of LEGO Mindstorms for my birthday. I am done buying guitars. For those who don’t know what Mindstorms are: These are LEGO Technic (not the blocks but the parts that let you build all sorts of vehicles, airplanes, cranes, robots – probably guitars if you push it). The […]
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From a garden shed to a gantry
Read more: From a garden shed to a gantrySince I was a kid a had a fascination with rockets, spaceships and other BIG stuff. I loved the Saturn V rocket. But the crawler, the huge vehicle carrying it from the assembly complex to the launch pad, and the gantry did it for me. This fascination with BIG hardware is what sucked me into […]
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Science for the non-scientist
Read more: Science for the non-scientistI am a frustrated, castrated, suppressed mathematician, physicist, rocket engineer. I was born in 1960. Ok, Sputnik, was three years earlier. But when in 1968 Apollo 8 traveled around the Moon my granddad had already started giving me science books for birthdays and Christmas. The books about the U.S. space program were my favorites. From […]
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