…defies quantum mechanics. This is pretty encouraging.
One-Way Trips To Mars?
It’s actually the only way that makes sense right now:
The hard part, he says, isn’t subsisting in a hostile environment millions of miles from home but changing the Space Shuttle-era culture of timidity.
It would be easier to just ignore NASA than to change it. I’m working on an issue paper on risk aversion and reward, and how we have to stop fretting so much over killing people if we want to open up space.
USA History Bleg
Does anyone from Boeing know the sequence of events of the formation of USA? At the time it was created, was it known that the company was going to purchase Rockwell’s space divisions, and were the legacy Rockwell people part of the new contract? USA was formed in September of 1996, I think, but the purchase didn’t occur until late in the year. I’m assuming that, since Rockwell wasn’t one of the initial parents, this must have been part of the purchase negotiations, but am curious to know how it all worked.
January Games
How the players and fields stay warm. College is smart enough to play all of its January games in warm climates.
Congress’s Five Options
…to reverse the administration power grab. I like John Yoo’s solution, which doesn’t involve Congress at all:
Most importantly, private parties outside government can refuse to obey any regulation issued by the new agency. They will be able to defend themselves in court by claiming that the head of the agency is an unconstitutional officer, and they will have the grounds for a good test case. They can call Richard first, me second, for advice!
I hope we don’t have to wait until the regulations are issued to resolve it, though.
Sorry, Rush
…but Santorum really is a big-government conservative. He may be preferable to Romney, but anyone who thinks he’ll shrink government is fooling themselves.
[Afternoon update]
The Mystery Of Glenn Miller’s Plane
Is still unsolved, but it looks like the “friendly fire” theory isn’t true.
The Green Movement
…is dead in the water. But it continues to do a lot of economic damage.
A Mother
An Academic Lynching
This is atrocious, but all too typical of modern academia, ever since the leftists began their takeover in the sixties.