Friday, February 20, 2026
A Spacecraft Flew Closer to the Sun Than Ever – and Is Rewriting a Century-Old Mystery
This spacecraft is collecting new information about the sun, its composition, and the atmosphere around the sun.
The objective is to help us better understand more about the sun, and how it affects the other. We're learning more about solar wind and how it is heated on its journey to earth.
But on that last one, shhh! Don't tell anyone that it will help us understand how earths climate is affected by the sun, because that might be considered climate science. And that's not allowable in this day and age.
Automakers are getting rid of Apple CarPlay to try and take advantage of $625,000,000,000 opportunity
Recently, lawmakers have been discussing cars. Among the topics are a change to gas mileage requirements, a removal of any sort of emissions standards, and a notion that computers need to be removed from cars.
There's reasoning on this last one - according to them - is that the cars could be more like older models, with simple engines that are powerful, sometimes loud, and which allow the drive to control the car (certainly something we've strayed from, since cars in control these days. Heck even stick shifts on most current cars don't engage the engine to change how it physically operates; the shifting tells the computer to adjust the engine). There was also some nonsense about needing to be able to touch physical buttons rather than touching a screen (which felt very generational).
But here's the bigger picture: these computers collect billions of dollars worth of data about you and your driving habits. Do you think the car manufactures will simply give that up?
Just take a look at this article and the power play move with apple here. This is about collecting, controlling, and selling information about you. It's about money.
What are JWST’s Little Red Dots? Astronomers may finally have an answer | Scientific American
As it continues to explore the cosmos, the James Webb space telescope has observed something that we have never seen before- and could not see -from earth.
These are "Little Red Dots" scattered about… and to this point, no one can explain what they are. There are plenty of theories, but it looks like we have stumbled onto a new cosmological object!
…or maybe (Star Trek reference incoming) it's just Michael Burnham in her angel suit, giving us clues to follow.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Engineering at its finest!
Back in 1929, Bell telephone purchased an 8 story building to use as its headquarters in Indianapolis. But, they wanted to make a central part of a planned campus and needed to move the building about 50 feet over and rotate it on the property.
And they did just that over the course of several months, with jacks and hoists - while the building was occupied by employees of the phone company.
This article from 1931 gets into the …. Nuts and bolts? Of it all.
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