A couple of people have emailed that he died.
Sorry for his friends and family, but all I can do is shrug. I was never into his art, or fantasy in general.
[Update a few minutes later]
For those who do care, this is probably a useful site.
How Bad Can The Oil Spill Get?
Alan Boyle has the latest.
NASA’s Murky Future
I have some thoughts over at AOL News today on the political uncertainty of the human spaceflight program.
Pickup Line Du Jour
“Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?”
[Via Ruth Waytz]
Twenty Years Too Late
…but we finally got a Cold-War victory parade. Of course, the fight against fascism/socialism in general remains never ending. It’s a fight against human nature.
Fountain Of Youth?
This is interesting. A seventeen-year-old girl who has the biological age of one year old. The question is, how does development relate to aging? What will happen to her in another forty or fifty years? It would be nice to not have to wait that long to discover the secret. And of course, it’s tough luck that she didn’t get stuck in a seventeen-year-old’s body.
The Death Spiral
…of the welfare state. When something can’t continue, eventually, it doesn’t. They’re running out of other peoples’ money.
An Interesting Letter From Lyles
There are two points about this letter from General Lyles to Frank Wolf about NASA’s funding priorities. First, if I were Congressman Wolf, I wouldn’t know what to do with it. It seems pretty vague on actual recommendations:
The burden of proof thus now lies with Congress and NASA to define and to develop a human spaceflight program that does not re-inflict damage on the breadth of NASA’s activities and that serves the nation well. It is possible to do this.
If you don’t think that such a program exists now, it would be helpful it if were a little more specific about in what way it’s deficient. If it’s possible to make it so, couldn’t the general have provided a little guidance? It’s not clear exactly what the source of his unhappiness is, other than that he thinks that manned space is now “under-resourced.” What does that mean? Just send more money?
The other interesting thing about the letter is that he sent it to Frank Wolf, the ranking member, rather than Alan Mollohan, the chairman (who may lose his primary tomorrow). Is this a sign, like David Obey’s resignation, that he expects Wolf to be committee chairman next year?
Red State Update
Laughing, so they don’t cry about Nashville. Note the guy on the right’s garb, though, and how he’s disrespecting Mexicans.
The Farmers And The Cowboys
Langley’s Doris Hamill has some useful thoughts over at The Space Review about NASA’s challenge in changing its culture (and subcultures) for the new policy direction.