I just heard Jane Skinner on Fox News reporting on the Shuttle launch, noting that there were very few left, and promising more on “NASA’s big budget cuts.” Never mind that the agency is actually getting an increase.
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, she interviewed Corey Powell, editor of Discover magazine. Who dutifully informed us that Constellation was the “replacement” for the shuttle. I’ll have a Pop Mechanics piece about this kind of misreporting, probably this week.
And on a different topic, but still Fox News, could someone tell Trace Gallagher that the San Andreas Fault does not run through downtown LA?
Well, she interviewed Corey Powell, editor of Discover magazine. Who dutifully informed us that Constellation was the “replacement” for the shuttle.
From a budget/jobs viewpoint, it was the replacement for the Shuttle, being designed to fit (more or less) into a Shuttle-sized hole. The fact that it was a square peg and a round hole is more or less irrelevant.
It must be true, its in Pravda, confirmed by Fox News.
Well, it does run through LA given that LA consists of anything west of the Rockies.