Bigelow Aerospace seems to be making good progress in developing private orbital facilities (a key component of a spacefaring infrastructure). Alan Boyle has more.
For those few of you who are fascinated/horrified by my computer travails, here’s the current status.
After removing Open Office and a Fortran compiler to resolve some otherwise unresolvable (at least by me) dependency issues, I finished the upgrade from Fedora Core 3 to Core 4 via yum update (at least I think I did–how do I know?). I rebooted, and it rebooted. I haven’t attempted to reinstall Open Office yet, so I don’t know if that will work, but flush with seeming victory over the machine, I decided to push my luck and go from Core 4 to Core 5.
Scott Burgess dismantles Johann Hari on the subject of Bjorn Lomborg and global warming. I share Scott’s take on both issues. And it’s another demonstration of scientific ignorance, innumeracy and illogic, and agendas over reality, on the part of some (too many) members of the press.
I hope you’re sitting down, so you won’t fall down in amazement when I tell you that Michael Moore has been accused of using an interview out of context. The interviewee is unhappy to the tune of eighty five megabucks. It should be an entertaining trial. Unless, of course, it’s settled out of court.