Category Archives: Space, Science and Technology

Ukraine War Day #447: A Second Chernobyl In Khmelnitsky?

Posted on May 16, 2023 by yalensis

Dear Readers: Today I have this rather scary piece, the reporter is Darya Volkova. Over the past weekend Russian aviation struck a weapons depot in the Western Ukrainian city of Khmelnitsky. The result was a radioactive mushroom cloud soaring over … Continue reading →

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Ukraine War Day #443: Russia To Create Elite Aviation Regiment

Posted on May 12, 2023 by yalensis

Dear Readers: Today I have this piece by reporter Oleg Solovyov. I offer it, as it may partially answer the question which every pro-Russian blogger is asking on the internet: “Where the f*** is the Russian air force?” The headline … Continue reading →

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Ukraine War Day #422: Après More Deluge

Posted on April 21, 2023 by yalensis

Dear Readers: Still on the topic of flooding in Ukraine. As readers know, this has been a very rainy, floody spring in the Ukraine. Which has hampered the war effort to a certain degree. (Flooded trenches, tanks getting stuck in … Continue reading →

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Ukraine War Day #325: What’s Up With Ukrainian Electrons?

Posted on January 14, 2023 by yalensis

Dear Readers: Despite previous (vague) promises to do a piece on the recent Russian army shake-up, I have wisely decided not to engage on that topic. Not having much value to offer, frankly. In the last couple days I read … Continue reading →

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Ukraine War Day #300: Mitigating The Risk Of A Dirty Bomb

Posted on December 20, 2022 by yalensis

Dear Readers: In previous posts we learned the scary news that Ukrainian shelling of the Zaporozhie Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) was most likely designed to set off the equivalent of a dirty bomb. Given that the Ukrainians strive with all … Continue reading →

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Ukraine War Day #297: How Ukrainians Cut Themselves Off From Science

Posted on December 17, 2022 by yalensis

Dear Readers I saw this story by reporter Vasily Stoyakin. The headline reads: Hatred For The Russian Language Deprives Ukraine Of Science And Technology Scientists and other specialists living in the Ukraine are facing a crisis that will affect their … Continue reading →

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Ukraine War Day #296: Can We Have A Timeout?

Posted on December 16, 2022 by yalensis

Dear Readers: When this war started, I made a vow to post a new story, following the war, every single day, until it was over. Silly me, I thought it was only going to last a couple of months! Yet … Continue reading →

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Ukraine War Day #283: Russian AI And The War Of The Future

Posted on December 3, 2022 by yalensis

Dear Readers: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of those over-hyped and scary things, triggering fears of Terminator-like wars of the future, where flying computers, programmed with AI algorithms, hunt down and murder humans for sport. People who are not familiar … Continue reading →

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Ukraine War Day #272: Why Shell A Nuclear Power Plant? Mystery Explained

Posted on November 22, 2022 by yalensis

Hamlet:Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here that oldmen have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, theireyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have aplentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams; all which, … Continue reading →

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Ukraine War Day #252: All We Needed Was A Super-Villain

Posted on November 2, 2022 by yalensis

Max Otto von Stierlitz held his breath as he eased the file drawer open, after picking the flimsy lock with his pocket knife. As he was reaching inside for the top-secret document, all of a sudden every light went on … Continue reading →

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