I’ll also be doing light posting. I’m having dinner and a ZEROG flight with Buzz Aldrin. There still appears to be some availability. If you can get to Vegas by 6:30 tonight, you can make the dinner and the ride prep starts tomorrow at one. The price is $8,900; it’s more than the regular price of $3,500, but less than $144k for a flight with Stephen Hawking. At $3500 for 25 seconds * 12 parabolas at 0g is $700/minute. That’s about a quarter the price per minute of a week in 0g on the International Space Station.
Light Posting
I’m at the Fort Lauderdale Airport, waiting for a flight to Dallas that’s delayed half an hour (or at least I hope that it’s only half an hour). Going to a family wedding this weekend, so probably not a lot of posts until Monday.
Well, OK, just this one. Here’s a scholarly treatise over at Cracked on five potential and even semi-plausible zombie apocalypse scenarios. I know it’s a little late for Halloween, but heck, these holiday preps are moving earlier and earlier, so think of it as the first Halloween 2008 story.
Corruption?
By a New Jersey Democrat Senator?
I’m shocked, shocked. Who could even imagine such a thing?
I mean, Nancy Pelosi told me herself that the “Culture of Corruption” would end once the Democrats were in charge. Or did I mishear her?
More Personal Spaceflight Symposium Coverage
From Ferris Valyn, whose laptop I almost accidentally stole at the X-Prize Cup (I briefly mistook his rollaway case for mine). Fortunately, he pointed it out to me before I got far.
Propaganda
Michael Totten writes about what the Army wanted him to see.
Gee, Ya Think?
“One caller from Oklahoma City said that ‘the questions
Top Thirty Failed Technology Predictions
Here they are. I’d read most of them before, but it’s nice to have them all in one place. They’re missing Vannevar Bush’s quote about ICBMs.
Intercontinental guided missiles, Bush contends, need not be feared at all
Just A Coincidence, I’m Sure
A good find by Donald Sensing:
“… as foreign aid to the Palestinians increases, so do Palestinian acts of murder. When foreign aid to Palestinians decreases, Palestinian acts of murder correspondingly decrease. In fact, the more money they receive, the more murders the Palestinians commit, the less money they receive, the less murders they commit
Just A Coincidence, I’m Sure
A good find by Donald Sensing:
“… as foreign aid to the Palestinians increases, so do Palestinian acts of murder. When foreign aid to Palestinians decreases, Palestinian acts of murder correspondingly decrease. In fact, the more money they receive, the more murders the Palestinians commit, the less money they receive, the less murders they commit
Just A Coincidence, I’m Sure
A good find by Donald Sensing:
“… as foreign aid to the Palestinians increases, so do Palestinian acts of murder. When foreign aid to Palestinians decreases, Palestinian acts of murder correspondingly decrease. In fact, the more money they receive, the more murders the Palestinians commit, the less money they receive, the less murders they commit