I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but here’s a long piece from ABC News about the prospects for public space travel, and it seems to take it quite seriously.
The Race Is On
This should make Mark Whittington happy, seeing as how he likes space races (real or not). The Swedes have plans to colonize space.
At least that’s what the headline says. Makes as much sense as saying that the Chinese have a program to be on the moon before us just because one of their bureaucrats say they have the technology.
His Lucky Day
<VOICE=Homer Simpson>Ummmmm…Velveeta…
Ggghhhaaarrrgghhhhggg.</VOICE>
The Truth Is Out There
Dwayne Day doesn’t believe in “Blackstar”:
it turns out that the atomic-powered bomber never existed, and the plane was never
A Couple Centuries Early
NASA has invented the tricorder.
Airbrushed From The Web?
Why, when one is looking for this site on Google, does one get the following message?
Sorry, no information is available for the URL thepeoplescube.com
They’d like to know, too.
What Was The Rush?
Ireland has finally gotten around to repealing laws against the Irish imposed by the English from the era of the Norman invasion.
Another good argument for sunset clauses…
Front-Row Seats
Want to watch a rocket blow up on the pad, at night (warning: about a hundred-megabyte wmv file)? I’ve never heard so much cursing in such colorful European accents. It happened three and a half years ago at Plesetsk, in Russia. Here’s the story.
[Via Jim Oberg]
Mojave Winter
A test flight of the X-37 was postponed for snow. There are some beautiful, and rare shots of the phenomenon in the high desert and the Tehachapis over at the Mojave weblog.
I wonder how good the poppies will be this year? So far, it doesn’t look good.
[Via Clark Lindsey]
Mass Exodus of Davids
Rand Simberg has already covered an Army of Davids here. Consider that some of the last vestiges of the old media that author Glenn Reynolds eulogizes. Simberg got a pre-print, I didn’t. There will soon be scant difference between the press and the public making the question of who to receive a pre-print something to be settled in shades of gray by Slash Dot ratings and auctions. That will make it easier for a media outsider like me to compete on a level playing field with more traditional media that gets their books early.
Reynolds’s book stands at the precipice of the future and treating different subjects seeks to penetrate the “fog of war” obscuring what will happen shortly. In places, Reynolds is foresighted and confident, especially in areas far along the path to individual control. In others, he seems flummoxed to explain what lies right around the corner despite having a well developed theory in another context.
In this extended review, I will take many of Reynolds’s claims and incomplete predictions and fill them out and complete them.