This is a new, sometime feature, where WC will share with readers both an especially silly email and WC’s reaction to it. Here’s the email: I read in a Twitter thread that solar panels drain the sun’s energy. Is that true? Let’s think this through. The sun radiates energy in all directions, not just towards…
After the Space Shuttle launch vehicle retired in 2011, The Delta IV Heavy was the biggest, baddest rocket ship in the world. It had a lift capacity of 29 metric tons. Unfortunately it cost tons of money – $400 million per – to launch so its principle customer was the Department of Defense, launching big…
WC genuinely does not understand the attraction that Donald Trump holds for a substantial portion of the American electorate. The Christianists have long since abandoned any critical thinking skills, but even so someone who is the utter antithesis of everything Jesus told them to do, everything the Bible extols, wouldn’t seem to have any attraction…
WC read Alfred Lansing’s terrific book, Endurance, on the recommendation of his 6th grade teacher, the late Jerry Norum. “Gripping” doesn’t begin to describe it. WC read the three hundred page book in one, continuous, non-stop read. For those who don’t know the story, it was the first book to fully and accurately describe Sir…
Wickersham's Conscience 