I never realised that freedom was a finite resource; it would appear the failed efforts of our glorious leaders to export it to the Middle East have led to a major deficit at home. But hey, why worry? After all, if I’m doing nothing wrong, I have nothing to fear, right?
The most venerable awards of the science fiction scene have finally caught up with the future – ladies and gentlemen, the Hugo Awards Online. I wonder if they’ll be activating the comments function for the inevitable calls of controversy after this year’s announcements? [BigDumbObject]
SpaceX is Paypal founder Elon Musk’s private space program. Spacefellowship has a round up of the growth the company is experiencing, the hint that NASA is moving towards a 1930’s postal service styled support of private space (ie: paying a small company to provide cargo service to the space station and maybe then manned service instead of paying for all the tech and research themselves, almost a prize oriented approach), and is already getting some big contracts.
For all that we dog on NASA, NASA’s looking toward SpaceX in this matter is nothing short of revolutionary, and SpaceX’s leads into creating a private space program are pretty amazing.
Call me all the rude versions of “paranoid liberal” you want, but I’m getting very distressed at my homeland’s propensity for spying on its own citizens. The silent airborne surveillance drones I mentioned a while ago are now being used to maintain order at music festivals. And while you can argue that there’s a degree of reasonable logic to that, you can’t say the same for the school uniform manufacturer that is seriously considering producing a range of bugged clothing to enable parents to know where their kids are at all times. [Image by RightIndex]