This morning’s news brief was just full of delightful bits. My head is whirling.
We have the story about the Russian government performing cyberespionage. This will probably surprise someone; not anyone who has been checking their spam folder over the past 20 years, but yeah, the Russians have lots of programmers who write malware.
And then there’s the bit where someone pointed out that we’re not really ready for humans to go live on Mars: Study: Mars One human colony plan ‘unsafe’ and ‘unsustainable’. My reaction of, “Well, duh, I said that when I first heard about the plan,” is tempered by my respect for the scientific process. One might intuit a great many things, but until one tests the hypothesis and collects data and analyzes the data, it’s just supposition. So, cool to see that someone has done the work.
The best bit, though, is the one where the end caps on those guard rails that are part of every freeway everywhere in the U.S. don’t so much collapse and divert cars, as they’re supposed to, but impale them. Good for Virginia, I say, for getting on the job and removing those things.
Yeah. I don’t understand why anyone thinks it’d be a good idea to go to mars before we drop a really large number of really wet rocks on it to raise the water level. Along with whatever other elements/molecules we would like to have. And we’re a really long ways from asteroid mining at that level.
After all, it’s a lot safer to pelt a planet with what you want to add before there’s a population to worry about.
Let alone the question of radiation hazard, both on the way there and on the surface.