Well, while Michigan college football was a disaster yesterday, it was nice to see the Lions win their last four straight, two of them on the road. Let’s see if they can keep the streak going into next season.
NASA, Why Build A Rocket?
Some good advice from FLAToday. Unfortunately, the comments section is overflowing with ignorance and illogic, including the usual lies about SpaceX.
Low-Budget Disaster Prep
Happy 1/1/11
And of course, early this morning, it was 1:11:11, and then, ten hours later, 11:11:11 on 1/1/11.
Anyway, I have a space bleg. I have a vague recollection of a chart that shows all of NASA’s failed attempts to develop a new launcher over the past decades. Does anyone else know about it, and how to find it?
Bye Bye, RichRod
This must be the worst day in Michigan college football history. And it was a horrible day for the Big Ten in general, especially against the SEC. Even Wisconsin looks unlikely to win their game.
The Year-End Lurio Report
…is out. Clark Lindsey has the Table of Contents. If you don’t subscribe, you should, if you want to stay on top of this exciting new industry. Charles has a lot of detail on various goings on, including the Dragon flight, that you’ll have trouble finding other places.
The Year The “Progressives…”
…came after the Constitution. And the Constitution fought back. It was also the year that the “voters saw the left’s unvarnished agenda and said no:”
Never has a Congress done so much and been so despised for it.
…The real story of 2010 is that the voters were finally able to see and judge this liberal agenda in its unvarnished form. For once, there was no Republican President to muddle the message or divide the accountability. The public was able to compare the promise of 8% unemployment if the government spent $812 billion on “stimulus” with the 9.8% jobless result. They stood athwart liberal history in the making and said, “Stop.”
And justly so. No, the government, and especially the federal government, can’t make you eat your broccoli.
The Year In Commercial Spaceflight
My year-end roundup is up now at Popular Mechanics.
Botched Environmental Predictions
Here are eight.
Speaking of which, here’s some new research (yes, “peer reviewed”) indicating that most of the warming modelling done to date is invalid. I’m shocked, shocked.
Decades from now, scientists, real ones, are going to be amazed at the hubris of today’s generation of climate “scientists,” given how little we really understand this complex and chaotic phenomenon.
“Rethink”?
I don’t think we need to “rethink” public employee unions. The word he’s looking for is “outlaw.” There’s a reason, and a good one, that they used to be illegal (including under the Roosevelt administration). They’ve pretty much fiscally destroyed California.