Agencies such as the United States Space Surveillance Network keep an eye on orbital debris from the ground, and alert NASA and other entities if an errant piece is in danger of hitting something vital. This means that from time to time, the ISS needs to perform evasive maneuvers to get ...
One strategy for knocking a comet off course, if we have enough time before the comet is predicted to hit, is to fire a kinetic impactor at the comet's nucleus, a bit like a space age cannonball delivered to the comet via rocket to slightly nudge the mass off course. If we send up...
The third attempt, after techs cleaned the errant gunk, was seamless, said Keith Parrish, NASA’s commissioning manager for the observatory. “There's degrees of hitches,” he said in an interview with Mashable, emphasizing that none of the earlier snags were complete failures. “What ...
An electric signal acts upon a coil, which electromagnetically pulls a metallic stem that is attached to the seat; the valve opens and allows flow. At the instant the external force (electricity) is removed, the magnetic field vanishes and a spring closes the valve. Common "actuated" ...
errant Chinese rocket stages, and China’s lunar aspirations, it wouldn’t be surprising if someone brings it up. The witnesses are Matt Pottinger (Stanford, and former deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump), Evan Medeiros (Georgetown, formerly on the staff of President Obama’s Na...
Conversational AI:“I see you placed an order for a pair of running shoes on Tuesday. You changed the address to 22 High Street yesterday and the shipment is en route. Would you like me to confirm any other details?” Conversational AI tools can also remember past interactions. When integra...
An Errant Knight // Wikimedia Commons Sinclair Oil The idea to use dinosaurs as the branding for Sinclair Oil was born in 1930, when marketers were creating campaigns to promote lubricants refined from crude oil—thought to have formed before dinosaurs went extinct. The one dinosaur that captured...
The NSC on Wednesday afternoon leaned further into its assessment: “Intelligence indicates that some Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip believed that the explosion was likely caused by an errant rocket or missile launch carried out by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The militants were ...
Blair quietly announced that the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command had undertaken independent analyses indicating “with a high degree of confidence” that Israel did not strike the hospital, and that “the more likely scenario is that the strike was caused by an errant rocket fired from ...
It is emphatically rocket science. So if the logic is so simple and compelling, why has it taken so long for mainstream investors and fiduciaries to accept it? The answer, I believe, can be found in two of the most powerful cognitive forces of nature: individual intellectual inertia and ...