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http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-01/nasa-seeks-help-ham-radio-operators-locate-its-missing-nanosatellite

NASA, a powerful, multi-billion dollar agency owning highly advanced tracking and radio equipment of all kinds has lost a satellite. One month after it was supposed to deploy from a larger satellite it spontaneously ejected and decided to not broadcast in the frequency it was supposed to. Now NASA is asking anybody with the inclination and equipment to look for its satellite. This has a life lesson somewhere in it but I'm not sure what it is.

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http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-01/navys-free-electron-laser-weapon-takes-big-leap-forward-powerful-new-electron-injector

The Navy has just successfully tested a laser prototype at sea by using it to shoot down a UAV from the deck of a ship. Laser weapons are finally here! I eagerly await flying cars and spaceships.

Share Post: Rant about Brave New World

The epsilons of modern society have one difference between themselves and their counterparts described in Brave New World: they have the capacity to instigate revolution and death. The only way to preserve humanity is to brainwash it and abuse its DNA. This would make the lower class happy with it's position in life and worshipful of the higher classes. Since the world isn't free anyway due to the human body's influence on the human "mind," primitive as it is, this actually increases the total amount of happiness in the universe we foolishly believe we understand without depriving humans of anything they actually want.