Because even when you’re traveling where several men and women have gone before, you still need a little help… NASA’s Starling mission has marked another milestone in spacecraft autonomy by using a new system that determines a satellite’s position in orbit by referencing other objects in space, instead of relying on a navigational network. Source:ContinueContinue reading “Clippings: NASA’s Starling Mission Opens New Frontiers in Space Navigation – NASA”
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Don’t Trust Anyone Under 40 (An Open Letter From My Recliner)
(And yes, I’m writing this from a recliner, which already proves I’ve abandoned any remaining pretense of ambition.) Look, I’m not saying young people are bad. Dirty socks are bad. I’m saying they move through the world like somebody gave them a fresh set of knees and a license to ignore every sentence that wasn’tContinueContinue reading “Don’t Trust Anyone Under 40 (An Open Letter From My Recliner)”
Deep Blue Intro: The Art of Sylwia Perczak
I recently came across a post that placed a Chesterton line—“If there were no God, there would be no atheists”—beside Sylwia Perczak’s painting of Saint Christopher. The pairing felt odd; the quote and the image seemed to have little to do with each other. Yet the painting itself held me. The longer I looked atContinueContinue reading “Deep Blue Intro: The Art of Sylwia Perczak”
Clippings: The Engine They Pulled From a Museum
A link on a newsfeed sent me down a rabbit hole this week, the kind that starts with one link and ends with three browser tabs still open. This one landed on an old Ars Technica piece about NASA trying to restart an F-1 rocket engine, the same design that lifted the Saturn V offContinueContinue reading “Clippings: The Engine They Pulled From a Museum”
Dropping Fresh
The first rule of good fried chicken is simple: you cannot rush it. When the voice behind the speaker here at the Chicken Depot says, “It’ll be a little bit on those wings,” nobody panics. The fryer has spoken. They’re dropping fresh—and around here, fresh is worth waiting for. While you’re sitting in line, though,ContinueContinue reading “Dropping Fresh”