Are we underestimating the risk?
Yes. Next question?
This is why Romney’s complete lack of vision about space settlement is so depressing.
[Late morning update]
This seems related: Amateurs the new fear in making a new flu virus.
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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Vitamin D
Could it prevent Alzheimers? Looks like there are a lot of reasons to be taking it.
Boarding A Sinking Ship
Turkey has become the fourteenth nation to sign on to the Moon Treaty. Like the others, it’s never put so much as a grapefruit into orbit.
The War On Women
…conservative women, that is.
3-D Printing
…in weightlessness. This technology could be a game changer.
Jeff Bezos
An interesting profile in The Economist, including a mention (but unsurprisingly, little info) of Blue Origin.
Space Blather From Bill Posey
Once again, the congressman tells us how crucial NASA is to national security without explaining why, or what NASA has to do with weather satellites or cell phones. And I was very surprised to hear that the Chinese blew up their weathersat with a laser. The things you learn from Congresspeople.
Neil de Grasse Tyson
…is wrong about space policy. Well, he’s a scientist, not a policy analyst.
I’ve taught Katherine well, if I do say so myself.
Gas Prices
This is going to be fodder for some devastating campaign ads this fall. As I’ve said before, they should end with the tag line: “Obama got what he wanted. Did you?”
Via VDH, who has a lot more thoughts.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, link was missing originally. It’s there now.
Valentina Tereshkova
Happy seventy-fifth birthday!