Tag Archives: NASA
Celebrations at NASA
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.
Whitney Houston, 1963-2012
Houston, you no longer have a problem.
Assessing the risk of nuclear technology
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accident at a nuclear power plant can only happen every 20,000 years or so (admittedly this number is from a somewhat outdated report … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Technology
Tagged Chernobyl, Fukushima, Japan, NASA, Statistics, Wackersdorf
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The Happy Hermit 