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gearing up for war in outer space
Humans are territorial creatures. The only reason why we seem to share outer space with each other is because we can’t put up border crossings and have them stay in the same place. But when we reach...
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environmentalists take on the military
When gas prices surged beyond $4 a gallon across the United States, calculating miles per gallon became a national sport and just about every environmental group was out to track down the biggest gas...
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when wrong suddenly becomes right
One of the trendiest arguments in favor of a supernatural guardian over our daily lives used by today’s popular theologians is the supposed consistency of morality across the entire human species....
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military firepower, coming to an orbit near you
According to a post over at Popular Science, while NASA is struggling to keep its programs running and the ISS is facing obsolescence before its completion thanks in no small part to politicians’...
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and now for something completely different…
Usually this blog is all about science and skepticism rather than entertainment, but today I thought I would do a little experiment. A while ago, I decided to try my hand at doing a little science...
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shadow nation: future shock , part two…
After posting the first five chapters of my attempt at sci-fi writing, the response I received was very positive, so I thought I’d post the second installment of Shadow Nation to see how well the story...
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shadow nation: future shock, part three
In the beginning of the year, I posted the first and second parts of my attempt at science fiction, and after the three month pause in posting updates, some of you have been asking to see more. When...
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who needs a clearance? you’ve got wikileaks!
Ordinarily, if you wanted to sift through all the day to day reports of an ongoing war, you’d need to apply for and receive a security clearance, a process that involves page after page of forms signed...
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who’s afraid of the big, bad chinese dragon?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates had plenty of good press lavished on him over the years, much of that press focused on his campaign against wasteful spending to prepare for wars that might never be...
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when academics try to take on military history
There are few things more bizarre than watching academics trying to decipher military policies though a lens of philosophy and sociology, where rather than focusing on a chain of events and trying to...
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could video games train their players for war?
It’s not often that a magazine like Foreign Policy devotes a column to video games, and yet soundbytes about the new Medal of Honor game set in modern Afghanistan prompted Matthew Shaer to ruminate on...
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how not to set this bot to kill all humans
Here are some good news on the tech skepticism front. Popular science writers are no longer taking the idea of human-level AI going rogue and wiping out humans in an indeterminate future. Now the bad...
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why the end times crowds’ buzz is wrong
If you listen to the perpetual End Times crowd that’s so persistent in Western culture, every major event in the news involving unrest, natural disasters, or disease is a sign that the world as we know...
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why space fighters would actually be useful
Just about every sci-fi movie featuring a battle in the depths of space generally shows large ships engaged in pitched combat sending out a swarm of fighters to deliver surgical blows to their enemies....
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to sate appetites for war, bring back the draft?
One rather popular theory among foreign relations pundits about American attitudes towards war is that we’re ready and willing to fight because more than 99% of us don’t have any skin in the game....
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the weapon no one can see coming…
When XKCD managed to outdo itself yet again with an article about what would happen if you tried to play a very simple game of baseball at relativistic velocities, I remembered about an interesting...
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mind-controlled psychopaths, coming soon to a battlefield near you?
Here’s a fun fact for you. If you zap someone with a powerful enough magnetic field, you could change this person’s behavior and not always for the best. In fact, you could even zap someone into a...
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how would you fight pacific rim’s giant monsters in the real world?
Yes, Pacific Rim is a loud popcorn movie best viewed with your brain operating at half capacity, just enjoying the show without asking any questions. And that’s exactly what makes it fun. This may...
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why autonomous killer robots are inevitable and why we should be pretty...
The peaceniks at Amnesty International have been worried about killer robots for a while, so as the international community convenes in Geneva to talk about weapons of the future, they once again...
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gearing up for war in outer space
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