Gerst is showing this chart at the NAC meeting today.
He’s saying he doesn’t have to make decisions about Phobos versus orbit versus surface until 2020.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Here are the solar electric options.
Lois Lerner’s Hard Drive
The curious case of the physical damage to it:
TIGTA’s testimony states that the laptop as a whole appeared undamaged. When Lerner’s laptop was first inspected by both an assigned IT specialist and Hewlett Packard contractor they both stated that “they did not note any visible damage to the laptop computer itself.”
The testimony does not speculate how the hard drive was “scored” while the computer itself remained visibly undamaged. However, given these facts it seems logical to question what — or who — caused the damage to the hard drive.
Hey, “accidents” will happen.
The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
Looks like this new movie won’t be helpful to Hillary’s campaign.
The “Black Lives Matter” Movement
It should be protesting Planned Parenthood.
@Popehat I think we should file a class-action suit against them based on disparate impact to black babies. @physicsgeek
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) July 30, 2015
@Popehat I'll bet that you could find a lot of black women who regret their abortions to be a class for the suit. @physicsgeek
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) July 30, 2015
The Chunnel
French police had to prevent a literal invasion of migrants to Britain through it.
Hillary’s Greatest Weakness
“You people are too dumb to understand why I should be president.”
New York City
The heart sinks. It took so much effort by so many people to clear up the human wreckage that so many years of liberal ‘compassion’ had created in a dying New York. And to see it all—I can’t put it any better than the esteemed New York Post—’pissed away’ by a mayor not smart or perceptive enough to have learned one thing from the experience of the last 20 years, since his own personal demons have left him stuck in the politics of the 1950s and 1960s, is tragic. It is so hard to build; so easy to destroy.”
Morons with no cultural memory electing morons.
The F-35
I haven’t been following the fiasco that closely, but Richard Fernandez has some thoughts:
The reality of modern day information combat is that China can win a war without killing a single person or disrupting a single reality TV show. What if America could lose World War 3 and not even know it, especially if it relies on its politicians to tell it an attack has occurred.
Sadly true.
Bernie, On The Border
Heh: “So it’s okay to have socialism, but it can’t be international socialism, it has to be socialism in one nation. A sort of national socialism, I guess.”
Someone should write a book about that.
New Lerner Emails
Provide evidence that the IRS tried to cover up its war on conservative groups:
According to the new emails, Ms. Lerner and her colleagues were aware of the growing outcry among nonprofit groups that they were being delayed.
In one Nov. 3, 2011, exchange between Ms. Lerner and Cindy Thomas, a program manager in the Cincinnati office that was handling the cases and was involved in a back-and-forth with Washington, the IRS admitted to having hundreds of cases stacked up and awaiting action.
Afraid of congressional pressure, Ms. Thomas ordered one of the inquiry letters to be sent, just to prevent one of the organizations being held up from complaining.
“Just today, I instructed one of my managers to get an additional information letter out to one of these organizations — if nothing else to buy time so he didn’t contact his Congressional Office,” she wrote in the email released by Judicial Watch.
Ms. Thomas said she feared a judge would get involved soon and order the IRS to move the applications more quickly.
That email exchange did confirm that IRS employees in Washington were deeply involved in making decisions about the nonprofit groups’ cases.
You don’t say.