You know, I’d be embarrassed to ask a question like this:
Daniel Schorr is used to producers popping into his Washington, D.C., office at National Public Radio to ask, on deadline: Which war came first, Korea or Vietnam?
Particularly given the resource of the Internet. But I guess some people wear their ignorance with pride.
I’d sure like to break this pattern.
Joseph Farah (a Christian Arab, for what it’s worth) says that we’re in neither World Wars III or IV. This is just the latest flareup of the original world war, going back centuries:
If the radical Islamic jihadists in the Middle East
From that famous Jihadi love poet, Iowahawk.
There wasn’t much worth taking pictures of at the conference in Vegas this past weekend, but Misuzu Onuki is always worth taking a picture of, and when she’s with her space fashions, it’s worth posting. The one on the left is a wedding dress, with wires in it to make the fringes “float” up as they would in weightlessness.
The Space Foundation has put their new white paper on line. Released at the conference this weekend (and summarized by Leonard David), it calls for cancelling Block I of the CEV (the one that’s designed to go to ISS), and using the funds to increase COTS funding, and restore aeronautics and space science that has been cut over the past couple years.
I should note that I haven’t been blogging much this week because I’m busy reviewing and rewriting requirements and verification statements for CEV Block I…
[Wednesday update]
There are a lot of reader comments over at NASA Watch.
Here’s an upbeat article in the local paper about this past weekend’s space conference in Las Vegas.
If the devil was smart, of course, he
Michael Huang says that humans are scientifically useless. Taylor Dinerman says that (despite the uselessness of humans) solar physics is important (for those concerned with such things, ignore the demonic nature of the link URL). And Jeff writes about Bob Bigelow’s excellent rodeo adventure. (Other good stuff there as well, wander around the site.)
Michael Huang says that humans are scientifically useless. Taylor Dinerman says that (despite the uselessness of humans) solar physics is important (for those concerned with such things, ignore the demonic nature of the link URL). And Jeff writes about Bob Bigelow’s excellent rodeo adventure. (Other good stuff there as well, wander around the site.)