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We think we know what we’re doing / We don’t know a thing / It’s all in the past now / Money changes everything. Cyndi Lauper When trying to increase profits, many companies often chant the same old mantra, “Let’s cut costs.” Aerospace is not immune to such cries. Recent events at The Boeing Company […]
The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution Albert Einstein Einstein performed a thought experiment in which he imagined one of a pair of twins traveling near the speed of light while the other remained fixed on Earth. The faster twin, he stated, would age less quickly due to time dilation. […]
Holy Hyperplanes Batman! Dick (aka Robin): Gosh, Economics is sure a dull subject. Bruce (aka Batman): Oh, you must be jesting, Dick. Economics dull? The glamour, the romance of commerce. Hmm. It’s the very lifeblood of our country’s society. The Batman TV Series, The Joker’s Last Laugh [2.47] You’d be bored with economics, too, if […]
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flashes, or short circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver […]
California sunlight / Sweet Calcutta rain / Honolulu starbright / The song remains the same. Led Zeppelin Modern surveillance demands a lot of different platforms. The Russians run ELectronic INTelligence (ELINT) satellites over Hawaii, California, and the rest of the US (A). Western forces must get the same insight to be as well-informed. We can […]
You can’t always get what you want/But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find/You get what you need The Rolling Stones There’s a trend in defense matters to want the absolute best always. We tried to get 132 bombers with long range, massive payloads, and very low radar signatures. We got 21 B-2s. […]
You can observe a lot by watching. Yogi Berra Dante Autullo went to a hospital complaining of nausea and a headache. A passing diagnosis might have been that he had the flu. But when his doctors asked him about what he had been doing, X-rays showed that as he was using a nail gun, a […]
There is a difference between discovery and invention. A discovery brings to light what existed before, but what was not known; an invention is the contrivance of something that did not exist before. Sir William Ramsay There was a hidden discipline lying about, unseen from view. I unearthed it. When I did, I discovered HypernomicsTM. […]
Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done. Robert Heinlein Over 200 years ago, Adam Smith wrote that “[producers] are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life (Wealth of Nations, p. 540).” The phrase “an invisible hand” is a metaphor for unseen market influences (A), still […]
And yet it moves Galileo In 1633, the Roman Inquisition convicted Galileo of heresy. His offense? He pointed out that instead of the universe revolving around the Earth (A), Earth circled the Sun (B). For that, he spent the rest of his life under house arrest. In 1992, Pope John Paul II finally acknowledged that […]