Somebody eventually spotted one, with results we know. Somebody in the back rooms took a hint and started scanning old satellite images, and found that the Chinese had been doing this for a while. There are some extremely egg-faced people trying to stay behind the scenes (“You never told ...
Despite the fact that Leaderprovedon 11 of 11 counts that Facebook is infringing its patent, the lawyers and judges fabricated a ruling that protected Facebook anyway. They dredged up a single 1896 criminal case where a jury convicted a murderer without any evidence–on suspicion only. Never m...
Everybody assumed in my childhood that the USSR would last forever and we would be having this “cold war” thing, except when it got hot and everybody dies when the bombs fell and nuclear winter killed anyone that survived. So, we had to make peace with the USSR and get rid of all ...
I wrote last year about the possibility thatcoal production was peaking. This is one chart I showed, with data through 2015. Coal is the second most utilized fuel in the world. If its production begins declining, it will be difficult to offset the loss of its use with increased use of o...