Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

The general conception of SETI has been radio transmissions during most of the last half-century. Radio is just one of the lanes in a broadening search of technosignatures: quantifiable evidence of technology that may be discerned across interstellar distances, in the current research. There are subtle signals which are designed...

Firearms engineering is usually evaluated by what is measurable: group sizes, parts life and whether a gun can be run out of a case of ammunition without incident. Ergonomics is capable of appearing more soft by contrast, but it is right on the border between mechanical purpose and human...

When the groups open up, long-range shooters tend to point the finger at the rifle. Practically, a very small number of repeatable fixable errors in process, position, and optics configuration contribute to most of the dispersion that cannot be explained as due to random error. Rifles and good optics are...