Astro Aerospace Ltd. of Dallas, Texas, creating autonomous eVTOL (Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aerial vehicles and drones, announced this week that they have been granted a Special Flight Operations Certificate for the operation of an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) system, for its passenger drone project, “Elroy”. Continue reading
Category Archives: Science
Field Day focus on dove, quail, pheasant
By OK Dept. of Wildlife
Landowners can improve game bird populations on their land when they employ management techniques proven successful. To help landowners make a difference, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation will host a Dove, Quail and Pheasant Management Field Day on Sept. 5, and signup is underway. Continue reading
The destruction of patient-centered care
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D.
“Medicare-for-all” medicine is the ultimate goal of progressives or “liberals,” fully embraced by Democrat candidates in the midterms. Candidates claim “single-payer” government-run medicine will “solve” all the problems of Obamacare and our “broken,” purportedly free-market system.
Liberal proposals ignore or deny the massive cost burden to taxpayers of “free healthcare,” the long delays, and the limited treatment options that plague every taxpayer-funded (socialized) medical system in the world, from Canada and the UK, to Cuba and Venezuela—and increasingly to U.S Medicare and Medicaid. Continue reading
Hysterical plastic entertainment
By David Arnett
Opinion: Matt Walsh in The Daily Wire takes fun away from the latest hysterical crisis. He begins, “There is nothing wrong with trying to cut down on waste. There is nothing wrong with trying to cut down on the amount of straws we use. But when you use fake statistics to whip up hysteria, and you indulge in extreme exaggeration and blatant falsehood and especially when you use these exaggerations and falsehoods as the basis for unnecessary laws, then it becomes incumbent on honest people to step in and correct the record.” Continue reading
NASA toolkit promotes free satellite data
By David Arnett
NASA’s Technology Transfer program has created an online resource to promote commercial use of data and the software tools needed to work with it.
While NASA’s policy of free and open remote-sensing data has long benefited the scientific community, other government agencies and nonprofit organizations, it has significant untapped potential for commercialization. Continue reading