Business 2.0 has a list of nine trendy fads to ignore. One of them is space tourism:
Travel to the final frontier is riskier than buying a vacation home in Aspen. When the first billionaire perishes in the icy void of space, it
Living Down To Expectations
Sadly, the Wolverines are performing about as I predicted after the Notre Dame game. I expect the Spartans to mop up the field with them next week.
This will be a long season.
[Update at 8:43 AM EDT]
Speaking of Big Ten football, David “Pretty-in-Pink” Burge writes about locker-room psyops in Iowa City. Even without these kinds of evil tricks, though, I expect the Hawkeyes to beat Michigan next month. In fact, looking at the Wolverine schedule, I could easily see them losing six games this season.
The Nutty Left
Zombietime has some first-hand reporting of a moonbat conclave in San Francisco featuring the odious propagandist, and fascist lover, George Galloway.
Without commenting on all the other insane things that he spouted, I would just note that he seems to be historically ignorant:
Nixon was impeached for far less than George W. Bush is guilty of …
Problem being, of course, that Nixon wasn’t impeached.
Well, At Least He Doesn’t Want Them Drawn And Quartered
A retired English physician has advocated guillotining disabled children.
Well, At Least He Doesn’t Want Them Drawn And Quartered
A retired English physician has advocated guillotining disabled children.
Well, At Least He Doesn’t Want Them Drawn And Quartered
A retired English physician has advocated guillotining disabled children.
Odyssey Ending?
Archaeologists may have discovered the tomb of Odysseus.
Yeah, He Did Such A Great Job In Haiti
Just in case you harbored any illusions that Ramsey Clark had the slightest remaining shred of sanity, he apparently just called for Bush to be replaced by deposed Haitian president Aristide at today’s anti-America rally in Washington (and yes, I call it that because most of the people there aren’t actually for peace–they’re just on the other side).
[Update at 3 pM]
Gateway Pundit agrees:
For the media to say that this is an Anti-War Rally is a lie. Now they are chanting, “End the Occupation!”…The media should be sued for misrepresentation.
A Thought
More of a note to myself, if anything, to be expanded on later, in another venue.
It strikes me that NASA’s response to the president’s challenge is a statement of fundamental unseriousness about it.
A serious program to go back to the Moon, and beyond, would be based on a foundation of an infrastructure that would dramatically reduce the marginal costs of getting to orbit, operating in orbit, and getting to the points beyond low earth orbit. It would be a decision that would allow dramatic and affordable increases in space operations, for both the government and the private sector.
That they have chosen an architecture that makes the marginal, per-mission costs of doing anything in space as high or higher than they’ve always been indicates that they’re more interested in short-term milestones (getting back to the Moon and completing the lost missions of Apollo) than in opening up a frontier. I thought that I heard the president say something else over a year and a half ago, but perhaps, politically, they’re right, and I’m wrong.
[Update on Saturday afternoon]
Clark Lindsey has some expanded thoughts on this subject.
Heaven Help The Person
…who mispells a post title on Free Republic. Read the comments, which are, shall we say…metacomments.
Though the linked article is pretty good, too.