Asking the important questions about an extraterrestrial invasion, over at National Geographic.
A Commercial Space Powerhouse
MDA has purchased Space Systems Loral.
I think this means that the next generation of high-power comsats will be serviceable.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s the press release from Loral.
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Related thoughts from Clark Lindsey.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s more from Space News, who also thinks it’s about servicing satellites.
Armageddon
…in Colorado Springs. Good luck to all my friends in the area. I’ve heard they’ve evacuated the Air Force Academy.
[Update a couple minutes later]
It’s not a forest fire any more. (Note that these pictures are from last night, not sure what status is this morning, except I saw on Facebook that Stephen Green was getting ready to potentially evacuate).
[Update a few minutes later]
Here are more pics from the Denver Post. This could be one of the worst fires in the nation’s history, in terms of residential damage (and perhaps loss of life, too, if people don’t evacuate in time).
[Update in the afternoon]
As Stephen Green says, it looks like Hiroshima.
Ric Locke
Terrible news. Go hit his tip jar if you have anything to spare, and help him finish the book.
The Blogger Defense Team
This looks like a worthy project.
A Question For The President
Here’s what I’d ask if I were, say, Jake Tapper:
“Mr. President, the Washington Post reported that on March 30th of last year, you told Sarah Brady that you were working on gun control, but in a way that was ‘under the radar.’ Is that true, and if so, what did you mean by that?”
Roll Call thinks that the notion that Fast and Furious was a means to buttress administration lies about the source of guns in the Mexican cartels, as a means to build public support for more stringent gun control, is “far fetched.” I don’t know why. I’m having trouble coming up with any other explanation that so well fits the available facts.
Outsourcing
Obama doesn’t know what it means:
Because the Obama campaign knows that one of its most important constituencies is economically illiterate yokels — a demographic to which the president himself apparently belongs — it is on the airwaves claiming “Romney’s never stood up to China — all he’s ever done is send them our jobs.’’ (Whose?) The Obama campaign cites a Washington Post story on the subject, and the Romney campaign has noted that the folks over at WaPo did not distinguish between outsourcing and offshoring (and, indeed, the story is not a very smart one — do read it and see). Obama responded thus: “Yesterday, his advisers tried to clear this up by telling us that there was a difference between ‘outsourcing’ and ‘offshoring.’ Seriously. You can’t make that up.” And indeed you wouldn’t have to make it up, because it is a real thing: different words with different meanings. (Seriously, can we get this guy a library card?)
To be fair, he’s ignorant about business and economics in general. And it shows in his policies.
Peak Oil
…is nowhere in sight.
The Newsroom
Why Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series is good news for Republicans.
[Update a while later]
Heh. Sorkinisms. I love the top comment.
The FDA
…is a mass-murdering bureaucracy. It’s not just drugs and medical devices — the food pyramid is a public-health disaster as well, and that’s just advisory.