The Internet has made it a lot easier to publicly shame people. And not just the MSM.
For example, here’s an amusing web site about a well-known electronics retailer.
Contrast
Here’s a gorgeous picture of Tuesday’s launch taken from the wildlife preserve. High technology set against a foreground of nature.
Moonbat Engineering
Even for Democratic Underground, this is pretty amazing.
Hint: among many other things, the fire was contained within the structure, with much higher temperatures.
Public Thoughts On The Flight
Keith Cowing has a roundup.
I don’t necessarily agree with all (or even any) of them, but it’s useful to see what the space-interested community has to say.
Unprintable
Apparently that word only applies to political cartoons that criticize the press. More specifically, the New York Times…
Behold…
The power of bird droppings.
Obviously, these NASA engineers have never owned a car that they had to keep outside of the garage or carport.
What A Scam
…but still, I have to say, I like raw fish. Even if most folks I know think that it’s just bait. Just call me a sucker.
No Surprise To Me
The folks on site have found no damage to the orbiter.
There has been so much undue hysteria building up to this launch, that it’s amazing that they’ve ever flown it at all.
The issue isn’t safety, or risk of loss of vehicle of mission. The simple fact is that it costs too damn much.
Little Far North For Rednecks, But…
…hey, I guess it can happen anywhere:
State fire officials say a Woodside-area man was seriously burned last night in an explosion after he poured gunpowder into a charcoal grill and ignited it.
And imagine my surprise to read this:
Investigators believe alcohol played a part in the incident.
Guess they left out the part about “Hold muh beer….”
And yes, these are getting more and more difficult to categorize. I need more categories, but I suspect that the need will be bottomless, given the nature of the world…
I Hate When That Happens
And I’ll bet that the Norwegian whaling industry does as well. A whale was shot down while being watched by tourist whale watchers:
Jan Kristiansen, who represents the whalers, defended the shootings. He claimed the whalers were simply taking advantage of the nice weather, when the hunting is best.
“Many of the whaling boats had been tied up at the dock for several days, waiting for better weather,” he said. “When it finally came, we have to make the most of it.”
Kristiansen claimed that he and the other whalers “don’t have anything against the whale safari boats… but it’s important to get across that it’s the extreme opponents of whaling that travel out to see whales.
“We can’t prevent them from being against the hunt, and they can’t prevent us from hunting.”
He’s obviously never met American environmentalists.
And, yes, I did have trouble finding a category for this one.