So What’s With Rocketplane?
So What’s With Rocketplane?
In The (Red) Army Now?
It wouldn’t shock me if Obama’s uncle was in the Red Army, given his mother’s apparent political beliefs, but I suspect that he’s either repeating a family myth, or gaffeing again. I don’t think that this is his Tuzla, though. If he claimed to have liberated Auschwitz himself it might be Hillary-class, but not this.
[Update a while later]
Does Obama even have an uncle who could have served in the US Army?
It’s one thing to get your concentration camps confused, but conjuring up family members puts this in a different class of fabulism. Does he really think that no one will call him on this? Well, considering the way the media has been swooning for him, maybe he does.
[Update a few minutes later]
Heh. From comments, I agree. Maybe he was thinking about his Uncle Joe…
Black Shirts
I’m listening to the young (or maybe not so young) fascists disrupting McCain’s speech in Denver on nuclear proliferation, with chants of “Endless War! Endless War!” They are being drowned out by the Senator’s supporters chanting “John McCain, John McCain.”
OK, whether or not they’re fascists is just a guess, but I think it’s a pretty safe one. Though it’s probably unfair to characterize them as Black Shirts–they were mostly ex-military.
[Update in the later afternoon]
Jim Geraghty agrees with me:
At this point, noisy protesters disrupting a McCain speech are basically advertising, “I am incapable of letting those I disagree with express their views in public; I am uncomfortable with free expression and at heart a fascist, as I do not believe opposing viewpoints should be heard.”
He thinks that they were chanting “Stop this war,” not “Endless War.” That could be.
Alan Alda For President
Well, not really, but he did show how to beat an Obama. Unfortunately, McCain isn’t the man to propound those views.
So, What’s Wrong With Capsules?
Frequent commenter “Habitat Hermit,” commenting on my Space Show appearance on Sunday, wrote:
There’s still plenty of room for disagreements –I have some myself (perhaps even a big one when it comes to capsules although it depends on the details, I think they’ve still got lots of more or less unexplored potential…
I agree that there are lots of interesting concepts for capsules and their recovery modes. But that’s beside the point. The reason that I don’t like capsules, of any form, is quite simple. They imply that the only part of the vehicle (at least the upper stage of it) that returns is the capsule. Hence they imply at least a partially, if not fully expendable launch system. I don’t believe that we are going to seriously open up space by continuing to throw hardware away.
So, What’s Wrong With Capsules?
Frequent commenter “Habitat Hermit,” commenting on my Space Show appearance on Sunday, wrote:
There’s still plenty of room for disagreements –I have some myself (perhaps even a big one when it comes to capsules although it depends on the details, I think they’ve still got lots of more or less unexplored potential…
I agree that there are lots of interesting concepts for capsules and their recovery modes. But that’s beside the point. The reason that I don’t like capsules, of any form, is quite simple. They imply that the only part of the vehicle (at least the upper stage of it) that returns is the capsule. Hence they imply at least a partially, if not fully expendable launch system. I don’t believe that we are going to seriously open up space by continuing to throw hardware away.
So, What’s Wrong With Capsules?
Frequent commenter “Habitat Hermit,” commenting on my Space Show appearance on Sunday, wrote:
There’s still plenty of room for disagreements –I have some myself (perhaps even a big one when it comes to capsules although it depends on the details, I think they’ve still got lots of more or less unexplored potential…
I agree that there are lots of interesting concepts for capsules and their recovery modes. But that’s beside the point. The reason that I don’t like capsules, of any form, is quite simple. They imply that the only part of the vehicle (at least the upper stage of it) that returns is the capsule. Hence they imply at least a partially, if not fully expendable launch system. I don’t believe that we are going to seriously open up space by continuing to throw hardware away.
What A Maroon
I think that if you look in the dictionary under “sanctimonious twit,” you’ll see a picture of this guy. I found the link in comments at this post which describes the sad state to which the Harvard Law Review has fallen (at least, I’m assuming that it was once much better).
Boy, as a commenter said, I’m sure glad that people associated with it don’t go into politics…
[Update a few minutes later]
Geez. He’s continuing to defend the stupid essay on a blog dedicated to the subject.
As someone else at Volokh’s place said, why does he have both kidneys? He’s guilty of murder because he hasn’t donated one.