Joe Katzman has a good roundup of space policy links over at Winds of Change, particularly pertinent now that policy is actually being formulated in the wake of the release of the CAIB report on Columbia.
RIP To An Ecologist
I hadn’t heard this at the time, but I just learned that Garrett Hardin (most noted for coining the phrase, “tragedy of the commons”) has died, with his wife. The article doesn’t mention this, but according to Razib at Gene Expression, it was a double suicide. Apparently they’d been ailing.
I could say something snarky about him finally living up (err…as it were) to his population-reducing principles, but I won’t…
Farewell To A Space Probe
Galileo (the spacecraft, not the scientist) is going to plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere tomorrow, ending its many-year exploration of that planet and its many moons. NASA is deliberately dropping it into the Jovian atmosphere in order to prevent it from accidentally hitting one of the moons, such as Europa, which may harbor life, and thereby contaminate that body with earth life that may have somehow survived the many years in deep space and Jupiter’s intense radiation fields.
This weblog has a warm feeling for the spacecraft, which had a very hard life. The picture of the earth and moon in the banner was taken by it on one of its gravity-sling encounters, in which it stole a little momentum from the earth-moon system to augment its trip to the gas giant. In its honor, I’m displaying it in this post in more detail.
I don’t like to anthropomorphize spacecraft, but it was a doughty explorer, and despite the rocky start to the mission, delivered a wealth of new information about our system’s largest planet and its satellites. May it rest in peace.
[Thanks to my web designer Bill Simon for the heads up]
With Her Help, We’ll Get Through Somehow
Jane Galt is writing what I know we’re all feeling about the great tragedy.
Certainly, the world will never regain for us that quality of hope and magic which it once had, but with the passage of years our pain will ease. No matter how improbable it may seem to you in this terrible time, someday you will laugh again.
Hey, she’s right!
She managed to lift my black spirits, and make me laugh today, despite all.
With Her Help, We’ll Get Through Somehow
Jane Galt is writing what I know we’re all feeling about the great tragedy.
Certainly, the world will never regain for us that quality of hope and magic which it once had, but with the passage of years our pain will ease. No matter how improbable it may seem to you in this terrible time, someday you will laugh again.
Hey, she’s right!
She managed to lift my black spirits, and make me laugh today, despite all.
With Her Help, We’ll Get Through Somehow
Jane Galt is writing what I know we’re all feeling about the great tragedy.
Certainly, the world will never regain for us that quality of hope and magic which it once had, but with the passage of years our pain will ease. No matter how improbable it may seem to you in this terrible time, someday you will laugh again.
Hey, she’s right!
She managed to lift my black spirits, and make me laugh today, despite all.
I’m Taking Bets
How long before the ill-prepared Jonah goes all Korean on us and eats Cosmo?
I’m Taking Bets
How long before the ill-prepared Jonah goes all Korean on us and eats Cosmo?
I’m Taking Bets
How long before the ill-prepared Jonah goes all Korean on us and eats Cosmo?
Belay Those Links, Me Hearties!
Avast, all, it’s “Talk Like A Pirate Day“!
But they weren’t prepared for the deluge, aaaarrrr, and it flooded one of the servers.
Due to the extremeley [sic] high load, we had to take the site down. We have several paying customers and their interests had to come first. I’m really sorry, next year I will definitely have a bigger server.
The Official Talk Like a Pirate website might still be running.
Here’s a search of Google for Talk Like a Pirate
Seriously, I had no idea this website was going to be so popular! Thanks again to everyone who visited.
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day,
Old Salty Dog
Well, swash my buckles.
Start bailin’, ye scurvy sea swine.