There may be one tomorrow, with a successful launch. We need to be developing cost-effective hardware for orbital facilities, and this could go a long way toward that end.
As Jim Oberg points out in Alan’s article (and a concern I’ve long had), Bigelow has always been too passive with respect to helping get launch costs down (though the recent Bigelow Prize will be helpful). It’s too bad that SpaceX couldn’t do the launch for him. Maybe next time.
Until Moon Day.
Start planning your commemoration dinner now. Invite family and friends, and contemplate the date.
According to this story, the Chinese are going to launch a space station. They don’t have a date, though:
China will launch Shenzhou VII with three astronauts in September 2008, after the Beijing Olympic Games…
After the launch of Shenzhou VII, a space station with 20 tons will be built…
Why wait until after the Olympics? What does this have to do with anything? Unless, of course, the purpose of the program is primarily for national prestige, as opposed to actually accomplishing something that’s important.
And “after the launch of Shenzhou VII” could be anywhere from October, 2008 (unlikely) until…the end of time. But we’d better hurry–we’re in a race!
According to this story, the Chinese are going to launch a space station. They don’t have a date, though:
China will launch Shenzhou VII with three astronauts in September 2008, after the Beijing Olympic Games…
After the launch of Shenzhou VII, a space station with 20 tons will be built…
Why wait until after the Olympics? What does this have to do with anything? Unless, of course, the purpose of the program is primarily for national prestige, as opposed to actually accomplishing something that’s important.
And “after the launch of Shenzhou VII” could be anywhere from October, 2008 (unlikely) until…the end of time. But we’d better hurry–we’re in a race!
According to this story, the Chinese are going to launch a space station. They don’t have a date, though:
China will launch Shenzhou VII with three astronauts in September 2008, after the Beijing Olympic Games…
After the launch of Shenzhou VII, a space station with 20 tons will be built…
Why wait until after the Olympics? What does this have to do with anything? Unless, of course, the purpose of the program is primarily for national prestige, as opposed to actually accomplishing something that’s important.
And “after the launch of Shenzhou VII” could be anywhere from October, 2008 (unlikely) until…the end of time. But we’d better hurry–we’re in a race!
AOL is pushing the nation to broadband by decreasing the gap between broadband AOL and regular AOL by $15/month. This seems like the biggest and last key tipping point toward US broadband. Dialup AOL will stay the same price. They expect to make up the subscriber fee losses in increased advertising revenue. This will be a tricky transition, but if successful, we could be watching Warner content over the web. TV sales and ad sales could indeed make this a good idea.
In the mean time, AOL is about to give millions of people $180/year. According to WSJ:
Of AOL’s 18.6 million domestic subscribers, about six million get their Internet access from a high-speed provider … AOL would let subscribers with a high-speed connection keep their AOL account free.
Between the Bill Gates foreign policy and the AOL fiscal policy, private America is stealing a march on the Federal Government.
Instapinch has more on our daring experimenter, speaking truth to physics!
[Before bed update]
Here, courtesy of Football Fans For Truth, are the top ten Scholars for 911 Truth.
I got into LA late morning, but I’ve been busy all day. Maybe I’ll check in later, if the wireless works in the room.
I’ve been running cables and speaker wire for the move of the television from the living room to the new family room created by opening up the kitchen walls. And packing. I’m back to CA in the morning, for the week. Wall patching will have to happen next weekend.
Oh, and I’ve added a couple new sites to the space blogroll, Michael Belfiore and Jeff Foust’s Personal Spaceflight blog.
…are being cruelly mocked. By the cruelest mocker of all, Mark Steyn.
…other celebrities rushed to show their support for the anti-war movement: ”I’ll not have what she’s not having.” Winona Ryder is telling waiters, ”Hold the haunch of venison.” Keira Knightley is saying, ”Hey, I’ll just go with the short stack this morning. And the low-fat simulated-maple syrup substitute.” Ice T has given up iced tea. Disgusted by the callousness of the Bush war machine, William Powell and Myrna Loy have decided to go without the olive in their fourth martini. Willie Nelson is said to be gaunt and sounding croaky. Michael Moore, hovering dangerously at 300 pounds, has told friends, ”You can never be too rich but you can be too thin.”
[Update in the afternoon]
People magazine, of course, reports this as though it were a real hunger strike. Would it hurt them to point out that no one, in fact, is going to be truly hungry, at any point of this laugh fest?