An interesting interview about spaceflight regulation with COO Andrew Nelson.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I should note that much of this is ground that I cover and justify in the book.
Memories
Why they don’t begin until we’re three years old.
The Vision For Space Exploration
Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of Bush’s speech, and no one seems to have noticed. Down the memory hole, I guess.
Anyway, I’ll have a piece up sometime today about it at USA Today.
[Mid-morning update]
Heh. Google has picked up this post, and it’s the only one in the top ten that is actually discussing it. I can sort of see why NASA didn’t make a big deal of it, given that most people consider it to have been canceled in 2010. I disagree, though, as you’ll see.
ObamaCare
It’s not working as advertised, but it is working according to its design.
Time Travelers
A search of the Internet for them comes up empty.
Remember, though, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: If a time traveler encountered a smart phone.
The Peter Principle
Could it explain the Fermi paradox?
The Liberty Constitution
…or what about slavery?
This always strikes me as one of the more illogical ad hominem arguments against the Founders.
Dedication To Going To Mars
This guy’s so determined he’s willing to leave his wife and four kids.
Christian Martyrdom
Meet the new age of it, same as the old one, absent the lions:
It’s chilling to imagine worse treatment than what the average North Korean prisoner has reported, including a mother forced to drown her own baby in a bucket, and tales of subsisting on nothing more than rats and insects. According to first-hand accounts from former prisoners reported by Amnesty International, “every former inmate at one camp had witnessed a public execution, one child was held for eight months in a cube-like cell so small he couldn’t move his body and an estimated 40% of inmates die from malnutrition.”
Syria, ranked as the third-worst country by Open Doors, has devolved in the last year to a horror show for Christians. The Hudson Institute’s Nina Shea noted in December 2013 a message she received from a contact in Syria who reported, “Kidnapping, killings, ransom, rape . . . 2013 is a tragedy for Christians in Syria. All Syrians have endured great suffering and distress. The Christians, however, often had to pay with their lives for their faith. Our bishops and nuns have been kidnapped, our political leader killed by torture. After our Christian villages have been occupied, our churches have been destroyed and even mass graves were found in Saddad. [T]he Islamists have put [to] the Christians the alternative: Islam or death. Why [is] the West just watching?”
They came for the Christians, and I said nothing, because I was post-Christian.
NASA’s 2004 Budget
Did you know that it was eighty-six billion dollars? The National Journal thinks it was.
Layers and layers of fact checkers.