Though he doesn’t say it explicitly, Randall Parker explains why we’ll have to eventually settle space.
Another Spaceport
Dan Schmelzer checked out the Blue Origin site on his way back from New Mexico, and provided a photo tour.
More Alternatives To ESAS
Over at NASASpaceflight.com. The Italian proposal is quite intriguing (I’m guessing that some of the people involved were the same ones teamed with Boeing on CE&R), and the Lockmart proposal seems better as well. Of course, from an affordability and sustainability standpoint, it’s hard to do worse than ESAS.
John Kerry, And Honor
Austin Bay has written what I’d like to hope is John Kerry’s political epitaph:
John Kerry
“Humiliated, Like Vietnam”
Saddam says that’s how we’ll leave Iraq. Under which US party’s rule is that more likely?
“Humiliated, Like Vietnam”
Saddam says that’s how we’ll leave Iraq. Under which US party’s rule is that more likely?
“Humiliated, Like Vietnam”
Saddam says that’s how we’ll leave Iraq. Under which US party’s rule is that more likely?
More Stern Criticism
Christopher Monckton excoriates the Stern Report and the “science” behind the global warming policy pushes:
First, the UN implies that carbon dioxide ended the last four ice ages. It displays two 450,000-year graphs: a sawtooth curve of temperature and a sawtooth of airborne CO2 that’s scaled to look similar. Usually, similar curves are superimposed for comparison. The UN didn’t do that. If it had, the truth would have shown: the changes in temperature preceded the changes in CO2 levels.
Next, the UN abolished the medieval warm period (the global warming at the end of the First Millennium AD). In 1995, David Deming, a geoscientist at the University of Oklahoma, had written an article reconstructing 150 years of North American temperatures from borehole data. He later wrote: “With the publication of the article in Science, I gained significant credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change. They thought I was one of them, someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes. One of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: ‘We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.’ “
And Chris Mooney thinks that there’s a Republican war on science?
So Easy, A Caveman Can Do It
How Dems really feel about the military.
Hey, next time, do a little research?
You know, in the future, when you look up the phrase “botched joke,” there will be a picture of John Kerry.
Megaspin
The people quoted in the recent Vanity Fair piece on “neocons” having second thoughts aren’t very impressed with it:
Richard Perle: Vanity Fair has rushed to publish a few sound bites from a lengthy discussion with David Rose. Concerned that anything I might say could be used to influence the public debate on Iraq just prior to Tuesday