Lots more budget discussion over at Space Politics today.
As I noted yesterday, I think that this is the biggest problem with ESAS:
Griffin will be gone in January 2009. He needs to put his overall strategy in place
“The Wrong Stuff”
Alan Boyle has a roundup of thoughts over Mrs. Nowack’s escapades. And he beats me to the punch on the article title–guess I’ll have to come up with a new one.
“The Wrong Stuff”
Alan Boyle has a roundup of thoughts over Mrs. Nowack’s escapades. And he beats me to the punch on the article title–guess I’ll have to come up with a new one.
“The Wrong Stuff”
Alan Boyle has a roundup of thoughts over Mrs. Nowack’s escapades. And he beats me to the punch on the article title–guess I’ll have to come up with a new one.
Is This What Soros Has In Mind?
Storage Breakthrough
Hitachi has announced their terabyte drive.
Ummmmmm…..
One technical challenge: Muscle tissue that has never been flexed is a gooey mass, unlike the grained texture of meat from an animal that once lived. The solution is to stretch the tissue mechanically, growing cells on a scaffold that expands and contracts. This would allow factories to tone the flaccid flesh with a controlled workout.
The TCS Column Almost Writes Itself
What if it had happened on a Mars mission? That’s the nightmare of the psychs at NASA.
[Update at 7:20 Eastern]
I’m sure that it’s occurred to others, but isn’t wearing a diaper for an expected long mission exactly what a deranged ‘stro would do?
Tell Us How You Really Feel
I’m not sure–it’s kind of subtle, but I think that this is a guy who really hates Macs:
I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, “I hate Macs”, and then I think, “Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?” Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.
Dim Prospects
…for liberaltarians. That’s what Arnold Kling thinks, anyway:
My point is not that the liberals have no case for an alternative approach. What disturbs me is that they are issuing rhetorical put-downs as a substitute for laying out an alternative and thinking through its consequences. Unfortunately, this is an all-to-typical modus operandi.
The Left’s religion often comes dressed up as science. Marxism is one example. The eugenics movement of the early twentieth century is another. The Global Warming crusade is probably another.
I think that Brink Lindsey’s overture will fall on deaf ears. I think that rather than attempt a fling with the liberals, libertarians would do better to go into counseling to try and save their marriage with conservatives.