Tag Archives: NASA

Celebrations at NASA

Posted on 6 August 2012 by

This is what 2.5 billion $ get you at NASA: a room full of people hugging each other. And for that, you don’t even get cigars which used to be part of any proper NASA celebration.

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Whitney Houston, 1963-2012

Posted on 14 February 2012 by

Houston, you no longer have a problem.

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Assessing the risk of nuclear technology

Posted on 24 March 2011 by

The nuclear industry is keen on coming up with probabilistic risk assessments that show that a serious accident at a nuclear power plant can only happen every 20,000 years or so (admittedly this number is from a somewhat outdated report … Continue reading →

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