Year: 2026
Swift Falling
I’ve been pretty excited about the mission to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory satellite, which is why since January I have had a widget in the right-hand column that tracks Swift’s position. With the rescue mission on the way, I thought it would be interesting to add the LINK rescue craft as a second… Read more
Renovations
I haven’t been blogging very much for the last couple of years. But lately I think I’d like to ease back into it. Maybe get up to a few posts per month. To that end, I wanted to clean up the back-end of the site. The front end — the part that you see —… Read more
A familiar war in Iran
I am by no means an expert on warfare. What little I know comes from books on the general principles of war and from playing a few war games. It is the latter which are giving me a sense of déjà vu. The war games I play are computerized versions of traditional board games where… Read more
On the shooting of Renee Good
Everybody seems to have an opinion on the shooting of Renee Good, and I’m no exception, but I wanted to think about this a bit before posting. Also, I’m out of practice and don’t write as fast as I used to. I’ll start with three important points that shouldn’t be controversial To my way of… Read more
Swift Descending
If you look in the right-hand column of this blog, you’ll see a new widget titled “Swift Observatory.” That’s because of a speedy satellite that is in need of some speedy attention. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory satellite was originally called the “Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer” when NASA launched it in 2004. It has since… Read more