SeniorJunior

WAY faster than most of us believe, the Chinese are sprinting *** You may have perceived that I have much concern about the Chinese threat to America's commercial and military technical leadership in the world.  We hardly hear about this from either corporate or governmental U.S. leadership, certainly not in the "news." OK, maybe it is the fault of The Press, and we peons just don't get to hear what's happening in boardrooms and backrooms on the issue. Perhaps our leaders are up to their necks in this kind of concern, and since it doesn't involve the Kardashians we never hear about it. Thanks, Press. Self-Driving Cars? Intelligent refrigerators? Pfiddle. The Chinese have higher ambitions. The same company that introduced China's competitor for the Boeing 737-Max and the Airbus A350 Neo, Comac, is planning future dominance. Along with Chinese space station plans and super-secure communications efforts  and breakthroughs in hypersonics , they are s

Oh, Those Over-Regulating Europeans! Drug firm is facing fine of £220m for hiking prices Aspen raised cost of cancer medicine by 1,200% ...That's $244 million in US dollars. Aspen is a South African pharma company, acting exactly like the American company Turing Pharma and their  scurrilous ex-CEO Martin Shkreli, "Pharma Bro." Here in the "over-regulated" (according to Trumpsters) U.S.A. we mainly just call these exploiters bad names, rarely do we actually regulate their insatiable greed. Read the full story here. GOOD WORK, EUROPEANS!

First follow-up on " Anti-aging pills aplenty " ** I started taking “life extension” supplements about a year ago. About time. I’m 80. Here them are: Nicotinamide Riboside 300mg/day Trans-Resveratrol 100mg 3/2days Pterostilbene 100mg 3/2days quercetin 800mg/day (“3/2days” means that I take those two every night, and alternating between them every morning. I take the NR every morning and the quercetin morning and night.) This little mix is what’s new in my fairly wide-spectrum and ever evolving “regular” supplements mix. I’ve been doing one variation or another of that for almost 60 years. One of these days, I’ll run over that list and tell you why I use each one. Fascinating stuff; I’m sure you can’t wait. I started with NR based on the reading I referenced here . Added in Pterostilbene after I realized my first NR product Basis by Elysium had it, so I added it as a solo ingredient when I tried Live Cell Research’s Niagen - straight NR.* Trans-re

Every Wonder Where DJTrump's Hair Ideas Came From? The "Leader" The King ...And his favorite facial expression? 'Nuff said.

Teaser, TEASER! Here's a hint. TBA Pix credit

Trial Hops ** Learning to fly your newly assembled gyroglider, you want to take short, experimental hops. Maybe in a meadow, not a real airport. I built one in 1969. (That's not it above; mine was just like it.)  My son Guy was the only one to get off the ground in it. This is about my first trial YouTube hops... Metaphorically Speaking... Thing is, I use this aerial analogy to describe what I'm doing with Spider and Olde Scooter, described in posts below. You know, to keep expectations as low as possible and still get off the ground. I've started "publishing" some of these narrated games of Spider Solitaire. They are on my "channel." Someone just noodling around YouTube might conceivable stumble across this channel and see the current state of a definitely evolving experiment.  I am having an absolute blast doing this nutso thing, and it's clearly not today what it was when I started just over two months ago, and I doubt

Scooter's Looming YouTube Thang Update, New Spin, Preview-ish stuff on the post below . You remember "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," James Brown rocking out? Well, I'm working on a new one myself, a YouTube "channel." [I do the quotes because to me a channel is a TV thing. Old school.] And speaking of old, the name of the channel in my mad bag pipeline is "Spider and Olde Scooter." That fine figger of a pixel pixie (I just can't help it) above is the logo of the iMac version of Spider Solitaire. Her name is Spider Mac. My plan is to play the game while making a mix of narration of the game, personification of Spider McGillicuty and saucy comments on pretty darn much of everything. (See the "darn?" I have taken the vow of no cussing on this channel. Also no editing. Go figure.) The gaming set up is like this (so far): I'm practicing a bunch, and I've imposed on several friends and relatives to see a game o

Let's Just Let China Get Ahead It seems like just last month that I saw the Chinese seem ahead of us in super secure quantum communications. Eeeek! it WAS just last month. (See below) Now, I open my fav aviation news site, AviationWeek.com, and what to my wondering eyes should appear but hypersonic aircraft and spaceplane leadership in China! * There was a surprise set of disclosures about China's progress in this vastly important field at a convention in China. The reporter for AvWeek said, What has come into view is a cohesive, nationwide hypersonic research and technology program that not only shows astonishing depth and breadth, but has also produced a bewildering number of major accomplishments in a relatively short period. All this at just the moment our new Administration in D.C. is ceding leadership all over the map, especially in scientific fields. ** "What, me worry?" Darn. To be second or worse in this technology will kick us in each

"Spider & Olde Scooter," the beta * I'm diversifying my collection of Ways to Waste Time. 80 year old guys need that. My friend Roger, a tech and programming whiz, keeps showing me what can be done with minimal investment here in Net World. Thus I've learned starting a YouTube channel is way easier than, say, writing a novel. So, by golly, I'm warming up to doing just that, start a...                                                                                                           ... channel! The plan is NOT to make a moom pitchers version of SeniorJunior, the enduring blog, but something maybe more fun. "Fun? You want fun? Whad'ya think of this, wussie?"  (a quote from a golf game gone bad.) Genesis of an Idea : Start with a time-wasting addiction to the game Spider Solitaire; Then a crazy coincidence that there is a spider web on the cover of A Reluctant God , my humble novel; Suddenly I discovered Twitch, the billion

The end of patience... ?? A pal of mine writes prolifically from the rightwing perspective. I have made a sport of rebutting him. I usually put my contra-comments in blue , interspersed with what I am rebutting. He just distributed a commentary titled "Are the tactics of the Left working?" Here's a recent example: (After acknowledging Republicans blocked Obama)  How quickly turnabout becomes fair play and the Democrats attempt to justify their behavior by saying that it is because Donald Trump is not 'legitimate,' that he doesn't fit the mold of a President  Nay, nay; we do say that, but that is NOT the justification. Regressive taxation, plutocrat-benefitting, science-crushing, military-over-diplomacy strategizing, untruths and obfuscations galore, ally-insulting, conflict-of-interest gorging, Mar-a-Lago indulging, nepotism amucking, press-attacking… THOSE are just some of the actual justifications   AND because he is diametrically opposed

Wait, There's More... Just as the Chinese seem to be skipping past us (see below), the good guys - the U.S., Canada and Switzerland are pounding more research stakes into claims rich with quantum gold. To accomplish the communications marvels fictionalized in "quantum statistical networks," gazillions of atoms must be "entangled" (look it up), and that's what is happening. Right. Now. Read about it here.

The "Quantum Statistical Network"  Up & Running? One of the assumptions in my sci-fi novel  A Reluctant God is that an instantaneous form of communications has been developed.  It has essentially infinite range, huge bandwidth, total security and error free. Pretty good, eh?  Way sci-fi. Nobody I know seems aware that the Chinese put up a quantum communications satellite  last August.  I just found out myself. Here is a report from January this year saying it's working fine! Eeeeek! So, NASA, DARPA, Prez Trump.... where's the U S of A's response? In A Reluctant God, the "Quantum Statistical Network" was a huge military edge. (Seems like if one wants to spend a bunch of buck$ on Defense, this would be a starting point.) Should you get a copy of the book - GREAT idea! - you can read all about the "Quantum Statistical Network" in the "Historical Notes" at the end. Check the book ad on Amazon.