Have a happy Memorial Day, and take a moment from the barbecue to honor the day’s purpose.
[Update late morning]
Thoughts from Paula Bolyard.
Have a happy Memorial Day, and take a moment from the barbecue to honor the day’s purpose.
[Update late morning]
Thoughts from Paula Bolyard.
What’s funny about this is that most of them don’t have that effect at all on me, or at least not in the intended sense. They only make me feel old in the sense that many of them are and always have been irrelevant to my life, and many are in fact completely unknown to me. They’re just a bunch of things to make a young person feel old. You’d need a much different set of things to make me feel old.
It is not a blog.
Can’t say it better than Glenn:
Yes, saying “I made a blog” when you mean “I wrote a post” makes you sound like an idiot.
Some apparently don’t mind, though. They’re often the same people who seem congenitally incapable of comprehending the difference between a semi- and full automatic weapon.
…and his admiration of Hitler.
I’m not surprised in the slightest. As Glenn notes, many “progressives” were just fine with Mussolini and Hitler, right up until the time that the latter turned on Stalin.
Some thoughts on technological unemployment.
That’s a more polite way of describe the location of his noggin than the one I’d use. Only a fool thinks that you can end a war unilaterally.
Did Eric Holder lie under oath to Congress last week?
Probably. It would be safe money to bet that he does so almost every time he goes before Congress.
Steven Squyres is concerned.
Here’s what I wrote in the book on that topic:
It should be noted that NASA currently plans only two flights for the SLS — one in 2017 to demonstrate the 70-ton capability, and one with a crew in 2021, to… somewhere. They have said that, when operational, it may only fly every couple of years. What are the implications of that, in terms of both cost and safety?
Cost wise, it means that each flight will cost several billion dollars, at least for those first two flights. If, once in operation, it has a two- or three-billion-dollar annual budget (a reasonable guess based on Shuttle history), and it only flies every couple of years, that means that each subsequent flight will cost anywhere from four to six billion dollars.
From a safety standpoint, it means that its operating tempo will be far too slow, and its flights far too infrequent, to safely and reliably operate the system. The launch crews will be sitting around for months with little to do, and by the time the next launch occurs they’ll have forgotten how to do it, if they haven’t left from sheer boredom to seek another job.
As a last-ditch effort to try to preserve the Shuttle in 2010, some suggested that it be maintained until we had a replacement, but to fly it only once per year to save money. The worst part of such a proposal would have been the degree to which the system would have been even less safe, given that it was designed for a launch rate of at least four flights per year. It was unsafe to fly it too often (as NASA learned in the 80s as it ramped up the flight rate before Challenger), and it would be equally so to fly it too rarely. NASA’s nominal plans for SLS compound this folly, which is magnified by the fact that both internal NASA studies and independent industry ones have demonstrated that there is no need for such a vehicle to explore beyond earth orbit (existing launchers could do that job just fine, with orbital mating and operations), and it is eating up all the funding for systems, such as landers and orbital propellant storage facilities, that are necessary. All of this is just more indication that actually accomplishing things in space is the lowest priority for Congress (and unfortunately, the space agency itself, otherwise, the administrator would be more honest with the appropriators on the Hill).
More people need to point this out.
Time for Americans to repudiate it.
Long past time, I’d say.
He didn’t mean to discriminate against Jews, Catholics and homosexuals when he had them herded into gas chambers. He was just trying to carry out his lawful duties more efficiently with inadequate resources. There was nothing political about it at all. Just ask him.