Way cool space stuff

Looks like Boeing is ready to deploy ion propulsion on a space vehicle.  While this is a first step, it might hold a lot of promise in the future.

Odd lawsuit

In an outrageous example of suing finding and suing the deep pocket, I present the following.

Apologies

After 2+ months of posts every day, last week I had a week of no posts.  My apologies.  Life intervened. I am hopeful that I’ll be getting back to the regular schedule of at least one post a day.  In fact my plans for later in 2012 is to try and have two posts a day, one in the morning and one in the evening.  We’ll see how that works out.

And this is why…..

you should record every encounter with the police.  Story here.

Even more A380 troubles

With the history of recent A380 problems, you have to wonder if it is going to get the reputation of a bad aircraft, like the DC-10 did.  Most recent story here.

Amazing model

This is one amazing piece of modeling. (H/T to Jim Bates)

Vacforms

A great story of the early days of vacform models.

More A380 wing trouble

Story here.

More military whiz bang

Truck mounted lasers that can shoot down aircraft and kill drones.

Crowd control heat weapon.

More war on photography

See yet another story here.  This isn’t going to stop until some officers lose their job and some cities have to pay some big judgments.