Jon Goff has an interesting flight safety analysis that might indicate that NASA is spending too much money on launch vehicle reliability for a lunar program.
Does This Really Work?
I’ve always thought of myself as more left than right brained, but according to this, I’m definitely right brained (assuming that “clockwise” means the direction when viewed from above). I can’t see it going the other way. Which makes me question the validity of the test.
[Update at 10 AM EDT]
Funny, I just went back and looked at it again, and this time it was spinning the other way, but then it stopped, and reversed direction and went clockwise again. Weird.
Just Stand There While I Die
Everyone else has been linking to this piece, but (contrarian that I am) I’ve been bucking the trend. But after actually reading it, I could understand why they have, so I am as well.
My Irony Meter Is Smoking
Jimmy Carter, of all people, calls Dick Cheney a “disaster.” I suspect that the vice president will have too much class to respond, but the response would surely be entertaining.
Not-So-Happy Birthday
Jesse Londin reminds us that today is the fortieth anniversary of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, for good or ill.
Dream Postponed
As a Boeing stockholder, this doesn’t make me very happy.
Overblown Title
Not much new here for people who have been following, but Discover magazine has an interview with Burt Rutan. I don’t think that he’s the “Granddaddy of space colonization,” though. If anyone deserves that title, it’s probably Gerry O’Neill.
Chickens Coming Home To Roost
I’ve long believed that once she became the nominee (as seems increasingly likely), Hillary!™’s past would come back to haunt her. One of the means by which this would happen would be the “Slick Grope Vets For Truth.” Well, it looks like Kathleen Willey has fired the first salvo
…as evidence that the Clintons haven t changed, the terror and harassment continue. Over 2007’s Labor Day weekend, Kathleen’s home was burglarized. Instead of taking jewelry or computers, the thief took the manuscript for Target, with its explosive revelations that could damage Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Sounds par for the course to me. Hopefully (and apparently) it wasn’t the only copy.
Closed Captioning Hillary
From John Hood, on free trade.
Fallout Shelters?
I don’t know if I agree with this post (and haven’t given it much thought), but it’s worth discussing. I remember shopping for them with my dad in the late fifties, though we never ended up getting one.
That was then, this is now. Do they make sense in the current environment?
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts on the subject from Dr. Kurtz.