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New Space Prize Announced
Bob Bigelow has announced the rules for his new fifty-million-dollar prize for an orbital vehicle. I saw this yesterday, but haven’t posted because I haven’t had time to think much about it, but Derek Lyons has.
A Health Care Thread
That’s what this post seemed to have semi-usefully turned into while I was gone (when it wasn’t a thread about how I was a hateful bigot, and twisted, and creepy, and other adjectives that seemed to substitute for actual argument, though not very well).
Post-Election Selection Trauma
I’d like to think that this story about some poor souls who need hypnotherapy to get over the election is a story from The Onion, but it’s from my new home-town paper:
Boca Raton trauma specialist Douglas Schooler said he has treated 15 clients and friends with
Space Frontier Conference Report
Jon Goff has an excellent roundup of the recent Space Frontier Society conference in Long Beach, for those of us not fortunate enough to have attended.
[Via Clark Lindsey]
Is There A Lawyer In The House?
Keith Cowing is having some legal problems with Orbital Sciences Corp.
Back From CO
We had a very nice trip (other than missing our flight Friday night, necessitating a later one that went through Dulles, and didn’t get us into Denver until late, instead of early evening). Weather in the Rockies was gorgeous on Saturday and Sunday, and we hiked in the park. I may post some pics later.
Off The Air
We’re flying out to Colorado this evening for a little vacation in the mountains (it was the trip that originally was supposed to happen on Labor Day, but was interrupted by Hurricane Frances…). I’ll probably not be blogging from there unless it ends up having an internet connection.
See you Tuesday.
Smaller And Higher Precision
…weaponry.
Whenever I read things like this, I have to laugh at the idiots who accuse us of “mass murdering civilians,” and “blowing up countries” and being “indifferent to collateral damage.”
And the new de-vices are just in time for this:
“American commanders seem convinced that it is only a matter of time before the Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, gives the order for them to retake the city,” the Times notes. “For many marines here, that order cannot come too soon. After a long summer of cat-and-mouse games with shadowy insurgents, they are hungry for a decisive battle.”
Sign Me Up
I, too, would like to see that Arlen “Not Proven” Specter doesn’t ascend to the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In fact, I wish that we could just appoint him as ambassador to Scotland, where perhaps he’ll find the law more to his liking.
I’d even be happy to accept a Rendel-appointed Democrat in his place. At least he’d be an honest one.