It’s sad that Popular Mechanics has to waste any bandwidth and pixels responding to Rosie O’Donnell’s incandescent idiocy, but that’s the world we apparently live in. How much longer is ABC going to embarrass itself with this moron?
[Afternoon update]
The steel industry is running scared, now that Rosie is on to their scam, that has been going on for well over a century.
Robin Snelson (aka “Rocket Sellers”) gave a presentation last weekend at Space Access about her recent and ongoing space adventures in Second Life. Alan Boyle has the story.
An Iranian blogger, on why it’s a mistake to attempt to appease the mullahs.
I don’t have any particularly profound thoughts about the hexagon on Saturn (though hexagons are not unknown to nature, even if not on this scale), but Alan Henderson does.
The Berlin bureau Chief of Der Spiegel, on the ability of Germans to hold all sorts of strange beliefs, including anti-Americanism:
For us Germans, the Americans are either too fat or too obsessed with exercise, too prudish or too pornographic, too religious or too nihilistic. In terms of history and foreign policy, the Americans have either been too isolationist or too imperialistic. They simply go ahead and invade foreign countries (something we Germans, of course, would never do) and then abandon them, the way they did in Vietnam and will soon do in Iraq.
Worst of all, the Americans won the war in 1945. (Well, with German help, of course — from Einstein and his ilk.) There are some Germans who will never forgive the Americans for VE Day, when they defeated Hitler. After all, Nazism was just an accident, whereas Americans are inherently evil. Just look at President Bush, the man who, as some of SPIEGEL ONLINE’s readers steadfastly believe, “is worse than Hitler.” Now that gives us a chance to kill two birds with one stone. If Bush is the new Hitler, then we Germans have finally unloaded the F
I have a piece up at Popular Mechanics about last weekend’s Space Access Conference.
I have a piece up at Popular Mechanics about last weekend’s Space Access Conference.
I have a piece up at Popular Mechanics about last weekend’s Space Access Conference.
It looks like the testing is going well. It seems to me, though, that this program could move a lot faster if they would commit to it now, instead of dithering around with decisions as to whether to move on the next phases. It’s exactly the kind of program that we need to mitigate the ASAT threat.
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