Happy fiftieth anniversary to the very first communications satellite. Sadly, I’m old enough to remember the day it happened. That was an exciting year, between Glenn’s flight and it. The space age seemed so young and full of promise to a kid.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s the newsreel. That brings back memories.
[Update late morning]
Speaking of Glenn, Amy Shira Teitel has a story on the Atlas reliability prior to his flight. It was about fifty percent.
This is an amazing chart. Not that it makes sense economically, but we can be “energy independent” any time we decide to be.
Are any of them solvent? And what kind of idiot would think that a physicist would be a good judge of business plans?
Less than four months now until our opportunity to get these clowns out of our lives.
This new Kickstarter project has fourteen days to go, but it’s already been funded. But you may want to contribute anyway, if you want one of the rewards, including one of your own.
…as viewed in false color from orbit.
Apparently you need the “www” in the site URL to see the normal page displayed. If you only use http://transterrestrial.com, it’s showing up as the mobile theme. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
If things look a little weird around here, it’s because I’m updating my WordPress theme.
[Update a while later]
Well, the changeover went smoothly, but I’ve got a lot of patching up to do. Can anyone look at the source and tell me why the Amazon image and an ad image above it that I’m trying to display aren’t showing up? Or do you need to see the style sheets, too?
[Update a couple minutes later]
Never mind on the ad problem; I fixed it.
What does its future hold?
Last year, Kickstarter funded the arts more than the National Endowment for the Arts. And it’s funding things that people actually want to fund, rather than having bureaucrats give taxpayers’ money to women to smear chocolate on themselves.