Neil deGrasse Tyson has an amusing tweetstorm going on this hashtag, but it’s hard to top this one:
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/651193413207887872
If you prefer the more trivial…
Category: Technology
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If a Tree Falls
From SMBC, this amused me:
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iPad Pro Keyboard Predicted in 2012
I’ve hesitated posting this because of the NSFW language in the comic, but it’s too good. This was posted in June of 2012:
So when Apple finally puts a keyboard in a Smart Cover, don’t be surprised
He guessed Smart Cover Touch and Apple called it Smart Keyboard, but otherwise nailed it.
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How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
Not sure why I didn’t post this when it came out (well, I was on vacation). This is part 3 of the Wait But Why series on Elon Musk and the best so far.
As with previous ones, it’s long. No really, it’s long. Set aside a healthy chunk of time. It’s worth it.
In part, it involves how this could actually work…
We are currently in Phase 2 above. The blog author thinks we’ll set foot on Mars by 2013. Musk thinks we’ll have a thriving city there by 2040.
I’d really like to see that…
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It Just Didn’t Work
As a follow up to my daughter’s iPhone 5 woes, we finally declared it a piece of junk and swapped upgrade dates among phones to get her a new one. We had been basically playing crazy games (unplug, put in airplane mode, plug, restart, turn back on, dance the Macarena) just to get it to charge above 50%.
It just didn’t work.
Feel free to ask me when I’ll be switching from Android. You’ll hear the laughter all the way from Brooklyn…
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I Hate Uber
There is a proposal in NYC to cap “for hire vehicles” (Uber, Lyft and black car services) growth to 1% for a year while they study traffic congestion.
Congestion in NYC is a real concern. But 1% for a year is pretty stupid, surely you can study this in a month or two. And while NYC taxis are probably better than most places in the world, a little competition is a good thing.
But Uber has robo-called me every single day for a week on this issue. Robo-calls are evil.
Annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying.
So I’m signing up for Lyft…
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Pluto
xkcd has Pluto nailed today:
And, What if the New Horizons Hits My Car? One of the best lines is:
How fast is 14 kilometers per second? Here’s my favorite comparison for putting that speed in perspective: If you were standing at one end of a football field and fired a gun toward the other end, right while New Horizons flew past you, the spacecraft would reach the far end zone before the bullet made it to the 10-yard line
If you aren’t following xkcd you have zero nerd credentials…
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