Should SETI Watch For Wars

The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence relies on trying to tune into the galactic radio broadcast. Well-established civilized civilizations may be Continue reading →

Turkey Is Falling

Turkey has troubles: economic, political, and physical. Any one is bad enough, but all three simultaneously exacerbate each other. As Continue reading →

Cyberwar Becomes Common

Cyberwarfare is developing far faster than people’s awareness of it. Attacks make occasional headlines, but any call to limit the Continue reading →

Climate Forces Migrations

Climate change is expecting to require about 200 million people to relocate by 2050. That relocation is not simple, easy, Continue reading →

US Defense And Climate Change

The US Department of Defense recognizes global climate change as a destabilizing influence, and therefore something to defend against. It Continue reading →

Necessary Relocations

Disasters, whether natural, political, or military, make habitable places inhabitable. People must move, and they do. With tens of millions Continue reading →

Laser Weapons Shrink

Laser weapons were sci-fi, then large but weak, then large but strong, until lately when they had at least developed Continue reading →

Bullets Can Now Chase Targets

Dodging a bullet just became tougher. DARPA has developed a bullet that can change its direction after its been fired. Continue reading →