Did you know the UK briefly had an independent imagery satellite between 2005-2009? You do now, and so do I thanks to Think Defence. Sample pix are here. The satellite was designed to return its data directly to a mobile ground station immediately after collecting an image, allowing far more timely delivery of the information…
Read More Brits In Spaaace! Brown Era EditionThings to do this week: withdraw all my savings from ING Direct and take them elsewhere. Seriously, read the whole thing.
Read More I want nothing to do with your company ever againNow here’s a worthwhile Canadian initiative for you, from here. And he names the guilty men.
Read More operationalising postmodernismBecause someone wanted this: a list of aircraft investigation resources. First thing: you always need to be able to map registrations to aircraft serial numbers (MSNs) and vice versa, as well as linking registrations to operators and vice versa. So you need to subscribe to one of several commercial databases that provide this information. Otherwise…
Read More a quick HOWTOReally excellent piece on the Al-Qa’Qaa munitions complex, its looting during the US invasion of Iraq, and the role of the estimated 40,000 tonnes of assorted explosives that went missing in the Iraqi insurgency and the civil war. Also, strategic geography – that area was on the demographic frontier between Sunni and Shia, on the…
Read More earth-shattering kaboomSo what about those North Koreans? As the SWJ put it, a small war in Korea was postponed. I’d query “small”, especially in the special sense they use it – it wouldn’t have been particularly small and it would have been defined by high-intensity battle – but perhaps they are really thinking of whatever would…
Read More big war postponed, small war still on the menu