In the Washington Post yesterday, they’ve got a real howler:
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat who chairs the committee that funds NASA, has expressed reservations about the growing cooperation between the military and the Pentagon.
[Update on Saturday morning]
Two days later, they haven’t gone back and fixed it.
Wonder if they’ll do an errata next week? Or already have and I just haven’t seen it?
Apparently it’s not a purely military coup–a civilian junta, led by the businessman who had opposed Chavez will be ruling until elections can be held. And the result is a fall in oil prices.
They’ve finally decided on a solution. The company will be split into two separate companies. One will write software, and the other will build patches.
I just heard Bridget Quinn on Fox News use the phrase “homicide bomber” rather than “suicide bomber.” I wonder if they have a new style guide, or she did it on her own.
NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe will announce today that Barbara Morgan, the back-up teacher in space to Christa McAuliffe, will finally get to fly.
Dan Goldin viscerally and vociferously opposed civilians in space (except for corrupt Senators), and refused to reinstate the teacher-in-space program (it was suspended after the Challenger accident, in which McAuliffe was killed). Morgan is finally flying because she was formally accepted as a member of the astronaut corps, and has been training for several years. However, I suspect that she’ll still try to get in some teaching during her flight.
For people who agree with Kathy Kinsley’s proposal that the Afghan scientists who hid the radioactive material from Al Qaeda deserve a Peace Prize, there’s now an on-line petition available.
I’ve signed it. (Thanks to Dan Hartung for setting it up)
[Update at 10:45AM PDT]
When I signed early this morning, I was number four. Now there are twenty seven. I know that Kathy and I have both publicized it, but don’t know if anyone else has picked it up on their blogs yet. We’ll know that Instantman has when it starts jumping by orders of magnitude. Did all those signatures come from my and Kathy’s site?
[1:11PM PDT Update]
Now there are thirty seven signatures, and I see that Bill Quick has linked to it.
As I discussed last week, today is the forty-first anniversary of the first manned spaceflight, and the twenty-first anniversary of the first Shuttle flight. The Yuri’s Night celebrations will occur all over the world today. They’ll be doing a continuous webcast, and the number of worldwide (and offworld) parties is now up to a hundred and twenty.
As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.
As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.