Mark Whittington reads a prognosticative puff piece by various NASA officials, and thinks that it’s somehow a rebuttal to all the critics of the program.
What do you expect, Mark? That they’re going to say it’s not going to survive? It’s not like any of them are going to be around and accountable six years from now. Is there anything they could tell you that you wouldn’t believe? Did you know that the word “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary?
Well, at least he admits his confusion.
Eight inches of snow in the Bighorn Mountains. In June.
Must be global warming.
Not for power satellites, but for powering or charging local devices, like cell phones. It doesn’t say what the efficiency is, though.
Despite the Bahamian low that’s supposed to bring showers to south Florida today, there’s an eighty percent chance of good weather for the launch tonight, so I think we’ll be driving up. Too bad it’s not an hour or so later–then it would be a night launch.
It looks like XCOR has the funding they need to build Xerus. Alan Boyle has the story of the changing, and maturing, nature of space startup funding. No more giggling.
Brit Michael Hodges can’t wait for London to become Londonistan.
In an Islamic London, Christians and Jews
And how much would recent history have changed, had Ahhhhnuld, instead of calling the Sacramento nannies “girlie men,” called them “epicenes“?
…in Iraq. Well, at least we’re going after them there.
An interesting op-ed in the New York Times today:
…despite the defeat in 1975, America
The previous post on Freeman Dyson’s global warming comments have kicked off a long (and apparently informed and happily troll-free) discussion on Bob Bussard’s latest fusion concept.