From that famous Jihadi love poet, Iowahawk.
Space Fashion
There wasn’t much worth taking pictures of at the conference in Vegas this past weekend, but Misuzu Onuki is always worth taking a picture of, and when she’s with her space fashions, it’s worth posting. The one on the left is a wedding dress, with wires in it to make the fringes “float” up as they would in weightlessness.
Unaffordable And Unsustainable
The Space Foundation has put their new white paper on line. Released at the conference this weekend (and summarized by Leonard David), it calls for cancelling Block I of the CEV (the one that’s designed to go to ISS), and using the funds to increase COTS funding, and restore aeronautics and space science that has been cut over the past couple years.
I should note that I haven’t been blogging much this week because I’m busy reviewing and rewriting requirements and verification statements for CEV Block I…
[Wednesday update]
There are a lot of reader comments over at NASA Watch.
Local Coverage
Here’s an upbeat article in the local paper about this past weekend’s space conference in Las Vegas.
Installment Plan
If the devil was smart, of course, he
Today’s Issue Of The Space Review
Michael Huang says that humans are scientifically useless. Taylor Dinerman says that (despite the uselessness of humans) solar physics is important (for those concerned with such things, ignore the demonic nature of the link URL). And Jeff writes about Bob Bigelow’s excellent rodeo adventure. (Other good stuff there as well, wander around the site.)
Today’s Issue Of The Space Review
Michael Huang says that humans are scientifically useless. Taylor Dinerman says that (despite the uselessness of humans) solar physics is important (for those concerned with such things, ignore the demonic nature of the link URL). And Jeff writes about Bob Bigelow’s excellent rodeo adventure. (Other good stuff there as well, wander around the site.)
Today’s Issue Of The Space Review
Michael Huang says that humans are scientifically useless. Taylor Dinerman says that (despite the uselessness of humans) solar physics is important (for those concerned with such things, ignore the demonic nature of the link URL). And Jeff writes about Bob Bigelow’s excellent rodeo adventure. (Other good stuff there as well, wander around the site.)
Deja Vu
It’s a sad commentary on public debate that this has to be done over and over again, but Jeff Jacoby dismantles (once again) the imbecilic “Chicken Hawk” “argument:”
“Chicken hawk” isn’t an argument. It is a slur — a dishonest and incoherent slur. It is dishonest because those who invoke it don’t really mean what they imply — that only those with combat experience have the moral authority or the necessary understanding to advocate military force. After all, US foreign policy would be more hawkish, not less, if decisions about war and peace were left up to members of the armed forces. Soldiers tend to be politically conservative, hard-nosed about national security, and confident that American arms make the world safer and freer. On the question of Iraq — stay-the-course or bring-the-troops-home? — I would be willing to trust their judgment. Would Cindy Sheehan and Howard Dean?
ECA Update
While I was driving back from Vegas, Alan Boyle was writing a more coherent article about my post on Extraterrestrial Copulatory Activities. But then, he’s a pro.
But I have to say, I thought that blog sweeps week was over.
Oh, and in case you haven’t inferred it (I suspect that most of my readers are smart enough to have done so) I’m back in LA.