SpaceShipOne had a successful test of its feathered descent last week.
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Bad News For The Marsoholics
“‘Forget Mars!’ the president was heard to say.”
Dibs!
This is truly silly, and gives a bad name to those people who are seriously pursuing property rights in space. It should be simply laughed out of court.
There’s no legal precedent (at least in common law), or sense to grant property rights to remote unclaimed locations simply on the basis of a stated claim. If Orbdev had actually sent a spacecraft there first, they’d have a legitimate case, and I’d applaud them, but this is as likely (and perhaps more likely) to set back the cause of private property in space than to advance it.
If They Made Me King…
Clark Lindsey has a plan, in the unlikely event he’s put in charge of NASA.
It’s certainly a lot better than any of the current ones.
“Iran Is Winning This War, Not America”
Michael Ledeen has a disturbing article over at NRO, which points out the foolishness and irrelevance of the statement by the anti-war types that “there’s no proof that Saddam had anything to do with September 11.”
Many of our analysts are currently falling into one of those linguistic traps that Ludwig Wittgenstein used to warn us about. They constantly ask, “which organization do these terrorists come from?” But they should be asking the empirical question: “Does it still make sense to talk about separate terrorist organizations?” I have been arguing for the better part of two years that we should think of the terrorists as a group of mafia families that have united around a single war plan. The divisions and distinctions of the past no longer make sense; the terror mafias are working together, and their missions are defined by the states that protect, arm, fund, and assist them: Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
“Iran Is Winning This War, Not America”
Michael Ledeen has a disturbing article over at NRO, which points out the foolishness and irrelevance of the statement by the anti-war types that “there’s no proof that Saddam had anything to do with September 11.”
Many of our analysts are currently falling into one of those linguistic traps that Ludwig Wittgenstein used to warn us about. They constantly ask, “which organization do these terrorists come from?” But they should be asking the empirical question: “Does it still make sense to talk about separate terrorist organizations?” I have been arguing for the better part of two years that we should think of the terrorists as a group of mafia families that have united around a single war plan. The divisions and distinctions of the past no longer make sense; the terror mafias are working together, and their missions are defined by the states that protect, arm, fund, and assist them: Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
“Iran Is Winning This War, Not America”
Michael Ledeen has a disturbing article over at NRO, which points out the foolishness and irrelevance of the statement by the anti-war types that “there’s no proof that Saddam had anything to do with September 11.”
Many of our analysts are currently falling into one of those linguistic traps that Ludwig Wittgenstein used to warn us about. They constantly ask, “which organization do these terrorists come from?” But they should be asking the empirical question: “Does it still make sense to talk about separate terrorist organizations?” I have been arguing for the better part of two years that we should think of the terrorists as a group of mafia families that have united around a single war plan. The divisions and distinctions of the past no longer make sense; the terror mafias are working together, and their missions are defined by the states that protect, arm, fund, and assist them: Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
“Bites The Hand That Feeds Them”
In light of this editorial, which is an official government organ, can someone explain to me why we’re giving billions of dollar of aid annually to this country?
“Bites The Hand That Feeds Them”
In light of this editorial, which is an official government organ, can someone explain to me why we’re giving billions of dollar of aid annually to this country?
“Bites The Hand That Feeds Them”
In light of this editorial, which is an official government organ, can someone explain to me why we’re giving billions of dollar of aid annually to this country?