OK, this is weird.
The Latest NASA OIG Report
I haven’t read it yet, but I question the assumptions.
Terraforming Mars
There’s not enough CO2 there. Doesn’t seem like a problem to me; just import carbon and oxygen (and hydrogen) from carbonaceous asteroids in the belt. And of course, they have to throw this in:
If you believe it’s possible to terraform Mars, you also must believe in human-caused climate change, because it’s the same process. Even if it’s impossible to terraform Mars, it’s clearly possible to areoform the mid-latitudes of Earth. Because people are doing it.
Ummmmm…no. We’re not.
Meanwhile, Tim Fernholz says we’re going to have to be careful to not contaminate the water there.
Hillary
Five reasons that she was the worst presidential candidate the Democrats could have run.
The Unmasking Probe
Sharyl Atkisson wonders whatever happened to it?
I think there are still a lot of shoes to drop with regard to the corruption of the Obama administration, but expect the media to continue to ignore and suppress it. Her story is also a reminder of what terrible picks George W. Bush made:
To understand, it helps to begin with the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when U.S. intel agencies sought to expand their surveillance authority — for what seemed like all the right reasons. (For context, a week before 9/11, Robert Mueller had become FBI director; a month earlier, James Clapper had been named head of the agency that supplies image intel to the CIA, and John Brennan recently had become CIA deputy executive director).
I’m glad that Gore (and Kerry) didn’t win, but Bush was a disaster in many ways.
[Update mid morning]
Nunes says that the American people will be shocked by what’s been redacted in the documents. I wonder if Trump is waiting for an opportune time to declassify that? Maybe just before the election?
Pious Thinking
An interesting post from Bryan Caplan.
Russian Jamming
They’re testing their latest weaponry on us in Syria:
“All of a sudden your communications won’t work, or you can’t call for fire, or you can’t warn of incoming fires because your radars have been jammed and they can’t detect anything,” said Laurie Moe Buckhout, a retired Army colonel who specializes in electronic warfare.
“[It] can be far more deadly than kinetics simply because it can negate one’s ability to defend one’s self,” she said.
But we’re also learning from it. Great story from Lara Seligman.
Dog-Rape Culture
This is a pretty weird story. If I had more time, I’d be doing a lot of Sokalesque spoofing of these “academic” “journals.” They seem like real suckers for it.
Coming Into Port
Pauline Acaline got some nice telephotos of JRTI and Mr. Steven coming into the port of Los Angeles after retrieving the latest Falcon 9 Block 5 and half of the fairing. It’s amazing how clean those rockets are coming back with the new design.
Britain
Is it lost? Bruce Bawer thinks so. I fear he’s right.
I would add that, in refusing to recognize the root cause, and saying that the rape gangs are “Asians,” they (including Nigel Farage) are in fact being racist. That’s right, they’d rather be accused of racism than of criticizing a religion. And I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the adherents to that particular religion react violently when it is criticized.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
It’s not just Britain: Lying about Amsterdam. I agree. As someone whose sister lives in a village a few kilometers east of the city, I’ve never noticed any problems like this in the city center.
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