In light of the latest admissions, some thoughts from Wayne Hale.
Our “Elites”
…don’t see what’s coming.
There’s nothing particularly “elite” about them, other than power.
Age-Resistant Mice
…with hyperlong telomeres.
“These unprecedented results show that longer than normal telomeres in a given species are not harmful but quite the contrary: they have beneficial effects, such as increased longevity, delayed metabolic age and less cancer,” concludes the team.
The telomere theory has been around for decades, but we seem to be getting closer to actual implementation.
Viking Women
Yes, they were probably warriors though, as the article points out, they would have had to have a different fighting style.
Just Fly Already
NASA is planning to reduce crew size on ISS because of uncertainty in Commercial Crew. This probably means no research during that period.
Altius
Congratulations to Jon Goff and his team. This will help with space investment in general, I think.
SLS Costs
For years, NASA has been providing a BS number of a billion dollars a flight (with no basis). Now, at least the White House is admitting that it’s at least two billion.
And here’s an update this morning. Yes, five billion a flight is a low estimate.
Oh. Well That Would Be Fun
Democrats warn to not invite Bidens to testify, because it would be throwing grenades down the halls of the Senate.
Crazy idea: Let’s clean out all of the corruption and drain the swamp, and I don’t give eff one about which party the stranded swamp creatures are. In fact, I’d love to see Dick Shelby implicated.
A Million People On Mars
It could (maybe) be done in a century.
But no, I don’t think they’d have to learn to eat crickets. The paucity of imagination in studies like this is always amazing.
Central Butte
Bob Zimmerman continues to follow Curiosity’s progress on Mars.