The sun is not going too “explode, scattering heavy elements into the cosmos.” It doesn’t have enough mass. It will eventually become a red giant.
Pro tip. Stick to sports.
All posts by Rand Simberg
Science Advisors To The Stars
I’ve long complained about stupid scientific inaccuracies in films, but some people in Hollywood are making more of an attempt to get it right.
The Solution To California’s Fiscal Problems
The California Monterey fields have four times the reserves of Bakken:
Harold Hamm (billionaire owner of Continental oil) estimates the Bakken oil field will produce six times (24 billion barrels) the oil of the EIA estimate. Harold Hamm also believes that the San Joaquin Monterey California fields are the next big horizontal drilling play.
So much for “peak oil.” Of course, the problem is that we don’t yet seem to have reached peak stupidity in Sacramento (or among the California electorate).
Practicing “Safe Journalism”
Safe for Democrats, anyway.
About Time
Gabby Giffords is stepping down from Congress. What happened to her is tragic, but her district has been effectively unrepresented for over a year. This is best for both her and her constituents. Note that I’d say that about anyone in a similar situation, regardless of party or positions. And if she recovers sufficiently, she can always run again in the future.
The Waw Of Nawthuhn Aggression
Against Paula Deen.
As I noted earlier, some of this is rooted in nutritional ignorance:
You don’t get diabetes from fatty foods, or the Inuit, who traditionally lived on whale blubber and seal fat, would all be diabetic. Well, actually they are now, but they never were until they started eating flour and sugar, which is the problem with Paula Deen’s cooking as well.
But most of the criticisms I’ve seen have focused on the fat, rather than the carbs, so this is just a battle in the overall ignorant (and deadly) war on dietary fat. Not that there isn’t some anti-southern bigotry involved as well, of course. Like that against Christians, it’s the only other acceptable form of bigotry among the politically correct elite.
Egalitarianism
Collectivism isn’t a new, or “progressive” idea — it’s the oldest one in the world. Liberty is what’s new, only a couple hundred years old, but the reactionary Left wants to take us back to the past.
And read the whole thing, though it’s long. It’s quite interesting.
Space Entrepreneurs For Newt
Mitt’s Campaign Money
What does Newt’s huge low-cost turnaround, in the face of all the money that Romney has spent, presage about the fall election with the hundreds of millions that Obama plans to raise?
[Afternoon update]
Heh: “Newt’s win in SC shows that big money can’t persuade as well as threats of violence from Chuck Norris.”
ABC News And Mrs. Gingrich
What we learned. Actually, it’s not news to me. This kind of one-sided media bias has been on full display for a very long time.