43244035
submission
Grayhand writes
"A meteor the size of an Olympic swimming exploded over Russia injuring 400, mostly from flying glass. It's high time we have a real budget for tracking near Earth objects before there's a real disaster. It's not a matter of if only when."Link to Original Source
42431719
submission
Grayhand writes
"Traditionally all a company needed to show was a profit to be considered viable. Lately Apple's stock has fallen sharply simply because the profit projections are less than expected. A company with a 100 billion in cash is seeing a drop in stock. Atari was a darling for 20 years but now they are in bankruptcy. With growth not profits being the watermark can most companies survive the next 100 years? Given all Wall Street cares about is unending growth will they bring about the end of civilization since unending growth itself is unsustainable?"Link to Original Source
42013249
submission
Grayhand writes
"A young video maker found out the hard way that signing a contract for his videos could have lifetime repercussions. A contract with Machinima forced him to abandon video making for life. Be warned it's becoming the standard for contracts."Link to Original Source
40624939
submission
Grayhand writes
"Apparently all the speculation on organics found on Mars was wrong and that's not the big announcement."Link to Original Source
39804191
submission
Grayhand writes
"Normally I'm opposed to more nuclear reactors because of the long term waste and risks involved. Molten Salt Reactors would get rid of most of the risks and would address the long term waste problems we have now. Build them next to existing reactors and the transport issues would also be solved."Link to Original Source
34352477
submission
Grayhand writes
"Flynano is a carbon fiber ultralight seaplane. It's a bit pricey, 40K, for something with no practical purpose but it's a slick high tech design which looks seriously fun to fly. The web site has some nice photos and it has been flight tested."Link to Original Source
31247857
submission
Grayhand writes
"Finally a Kickstarter type site to fund science projects. If the government wants to cut funding it's up to us to keep hard science alive."Link to Original Source
