<VOICE=”Homer Simpson”>Global warming. Is there anything it can’t do?</VOICE>:
Some climate experts have said the potential cooling of Europe was paradoxically consistent with global warming caused by the accumulation of heat-trapping “greenhouse” emissions.
How long do we have to wait to fire up our SUVs? When the ice in Chicago is higher than the Sears Tower?
The Space Frontier Society has put together a new feature at their site, called NewSpace News. It has a nice roundup of links to stories of interest to fans of the new (private) space program(s).
Also, Rick Tumlinson has an editorial with some advice for Mike Griffin. Like many of us, he’s underwhelmed by “Apollo on steroids”:
It’s dead Mike. That horse won’t run. That dog won’t hunt. The fat lady has sung. Or, to bring it closer to space, I’ll quote Bill Paxton in the film Aliens: “Game over man!”
The bloated, business as usual, cost-plus, pork-based, design-bureau use-it-and-throw-it-away approach to space is a failure. The excitement and momentum that might have existed when the president aimed us toward the Moon, Mars and beyond has been squandered. It has been worn down by the dumping of vision in favor of pork, and the jettisoning of the President and Aldridge Commission’s declarations that frontier infrastructure building based on commercial enterprise is a prime goal. Dumped in favor of getting a few folks on the Moon relatively quickly (for these timid times) and pretending that this will lead us on to Mars
I wonder how many people give credence to public opinion polls? I never see any polls on that issue.
I wonder how many people give credence to public opinion polls? I never see any polls on that issue.
I wonder how many people give credence to public opinion polls? I never see any polls on that issue.
Here, at long last, is what the world has been waiting for. First came sliced bread, and now, finally, we have the temperature-controlled butter keeper.
Ah, life in the twenty-first century.
[Update at noon]
We do indeed live in an age of technological wonders. How did we ever roast marshmallows without it?
And what marsh do marshmallows grow in, anyway?
…a comments section gone to hilarious hell. Be sure to read the commenters’ names.
They may have decided to let us keep our nail clippers.
Officials want screeners to focus more on finding things that can explode rather than things that are sharp.
Gosh, what a concept.
…nonsense like this will be one of the reasons:
Is this what the U.S. State Department thinks America is really like? How many men, outside a tiny subset in major cities, are the primping, feminized “metrosexuals” the article lauds? Not many. You cannot enhance understanding between one people and another by presenting a false version of one side.
But more importantly, is this the way to “build bridges” between the Arab world and ourselves? Does the State Department believe that Arab males
The new version of Firefox is out.