Computers ain’t no Chuck Yeager

Here is a discussion of hand flying big tubes in the sky. So pilots will prevent bad things and save lives.

Bad weather, for example, can put a plane out of sorts–like not flying and losing control, and that means crashing and losing everyone.

Not good.

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Spreading EPA money around

The headline from Lung Disease News says U.S. Environmental Agency Grants $4.5 Million to Improve Indoor Air Quality, Reduce Lung Diseases Like Asthma. 

It’s part of a three year program “with the main purpose of preventing future deaths due to lung cancer through the reduction of exposure to radon and mitigating the current risks that lead to asthma attacks and visits to the hospital through the improvement of infrastructures. In addition, the grants also seek to address other poor health consequences by improving the quality of indoor air and promoting best practices and policies.”

Sounds like lofty and worthy goals, but by the time the money gets passed around to the various groups, it’s advertising money spread thinly.  The grant is likely not to do much more than support groups that support the EPA.

Torture, interrogation, dealing with evil people who would destroy us–well we could pretend it isn’t real

Well here is a little history on some of the more serious forms of torture from the past–the writer doesn’t deal with the gruesome forms of execution.

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More on radiation biophysics–radiological imaging and background radiation

To Follow up on yesterday’s discussion of risks of cancer from radiological procedures.
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Theodore Dalrymple on post modernist junk moral posturing

There is a natural law morality and ethics that makes sense, even sans religion, so the reason post modernist thinking is so bad is not because it derives from atheism, but because it is so devoid of good human sense. Aristotle wrote the ethics

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Europe to get a blast of winter

Imagine that, I hope the winter reminds the Pope he is not a climate and weather expert.

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CA gets rain–nothing like rain to make a farmer happy

I live in a semi arid part of the world–Central Texas is still in a long term drought. Our lake is down 11 feet, so we are stressed. Ground is wet though and the pasture “tanks” are OK.

Nothing improves my attitude like rain.

Here’s Roy Spencer’s update on that great rain that CA got, east of Sacramento Folsom Lake got a big rain, Shasta is much better off.

Shasta is a gigantic reservoir lake in Northern CA.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/12/drought-stricken-california-suddenly-green/