Austin bombings articles
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th’ on Max, a Documentary Tackling the Repercussions of the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
You might not be surprised to learn that Timothy McVeigh’s right-wing extremism has links to the past and present.
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What Tesla layoffs mean for Austin
Major Austin employer Tesla is cutting 10% of its workforce globally as it grapples with middling electric vehicle sales.
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Fusion Pellets and the ‘Bussard Buzz Bomb’
Fusion runways remind me of the propulsion methods using pellets that have been suggested over the years in the literature. Before the runway concept emerged, the idea of firing pellets at a departing spacecraft was developed by Clifford Singer. Aware of the limitations of chemical propulsion, Singer first studied charged particle beams but quickly realized that the spread of the beam as it travels bedevils the concept. A stream of macro-pellets, each several grams in size, would offer a better...