May 082011
 
U.S. planned to drop a nuke on the moon?

It seems insane these days to think so but…it almost happened.  In a race for nuclear supremacy during the cold war, The United States once considered this action as a deterrent to the Soviet Union according to a physicist involved in the plan. Although the 1950s era U.S. Air Force top-secret Project A119, entitled “A Study [...]

Mar 042011
 
Plugged In, Internet Junkie

I grew up in the age where black and white TV was the rage, 45 and 33 rpm records ruled, and high school typing class was, well, on a typewriter. What has happened to me over the last 40 years? I’ll tell you what has happened…I am a plugged-in, cyber surfing, tweeting, online shopping, Facebook [...]

Feb 282011
 
Dealing with Internet Robots

If you have ever read Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot”, you are fully aware that at times, humans can have a few difficulties interacting with them. We expect them to behave in certain ways and when they don’t meet our expectations; our wrath is unrestrictedly directed upon them. I recently had just such a confrontation while [...]