Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025

Charles Mitchell

Subic Bay’s Transformation Into a Missile and Warship Powerhouse Near China

The rebirth of Subic Bay is not so much a return to its Cold War heyday it is a deliberate engineering and strategic project aimed at re-configuring the military balance in the Indo-Pacific. Once the biggest U.S. naval base in Asia, the bay will become the largest weapons manufacturing...
James Thompson

9 Films That Nailed Scientific Accuracy on the Big Screen

Some science fiction films tackle physics as a courtesy. Others, however, take the harder road  developing their story on the boundaries of real science, sometimes to the delight of scientists themselves. In an age when hype often outruns reality, such films are admirable for forming their speculations on plausible,...
James Thompson

7 Forces Behind Earth’s Distant ‘Triple Whammy’ Extinction

If anybody ever thought the Sun was humanity's worst enemy, they would do well to change their minds. In the distant future, our race might be wiped out not by an asteroid or extraterrestrial attack, but by the inexorable, slow collision of geology, astrophysics, and atmospheric chemistry. Scientists tell...