Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

James Thompson

New Findings on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: 9 Science Surprises Explained

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft-grade stress test of the present day astronomy: the instruments were not built as a complete system, worked as a single system, at enormous baselines, and the target was moving rapidly and acting as a comet with unknown chemistry. It is a discursive needlework...
Charles Mitchell

8 Handgun Calibers Instructors Flag as Risky Choices for Everyday Defense

Handgun rounds are treated like personalities: resolute, feeble, snappy, repentant. Actually, cartridges act as engineering systems. Minor modifications of ignition, barrel length, recoil impulse, and bullet design may switch result in those ways that are the most important when time and precision fail under pressure. What works in a controlled...
Charles Mitchell

9 “Great on Paper” Guns Owners Wish They’d Never Brought Home

A gun can be ideal on paper and fail to impress a gunman a range at a time. Remorse is not often to do with an epic breakage. It is constructed out of minor, repeatable issues, namely, the feeding becomes picky, the triggers become rebellious against the scene, the...