Eight inches of snow in the Bighorn Mountains. In June.
Must be global warming.
Wireless Power Transfer
Not for power satellites, but for powering or charging local devices, like cell phones. It doesn’t say what the efficiency is, though.
Pretty Good Odds
Despite the Bahamian low that’s supposed to bring showers to south Florida today, there’s an eighty percent chance of good weather for the launch tonight, so I think we’ll be driving up. Too bad it’s not an hour or so later–then it would be a night launch.
Angels To The Rescue
It looks like XCOR has the funding they need to build Xerus. Alan Boyle has the story of the changing, and maturing, nature of space startup funding. No more giggling.
Dhimmitude
Brit Michael Hodges can’t wait for London to become Londonistan.
In an Islamic London, Christians and Jews
How Much Better Off Would The Golden State Be?
And how much would recent history have changed, had Ahhhhnuld, instead of calling the Sacramento nannies “girlie men,” called them “epicenes“?
Iranian Terrorist Cells
…in Iraq. Well, at least we’re going after them there.
Creating New Killing Fields
An interesting op-ed in the New York Times today:
…despite the defeat in 1975, America
Undying Comment Thread
The previous post on Freeman Dyson’s global warming comments have kicked off a long (and apparently informed and happily troll-free) discussion on Bob Bussard’s latest fusion concept.
Living In A Fantasy World
We continue to pretend that Iran is not waging war against us, in Iraq, Afghanistan (and against Israel in Syria and Lebanon). How much more of this should we take before punishing the regime?