LGF: The Canker Sore You Just Keep on Licking
I've been posting a lot lately about what a 'tard Charles at LGF can be. Today is no exception. We have the LGF headline: Man charged with stockpiling weapons: Tea Partier and Palin Fan. This eye-roll inducing headline is typical of Charles' take on us knuckle draggers. Let's have a closer look. Charles sums up the situation: A Massachusetts man arrested Tuesday and charged with possessing explosives and a stockpile of weapons was a tea partier and a fan of Sarah Palin.Massachusetts. Great place to start for those of us who know the secret... Read more...
carnaby fudge, Today, 2:41am
NASA Historical Photo Collection
NASA has a huge collection of photos related to space exploration and history - perhaps too many to conveniently explore considering the many NASA web sites, although there are some "greatest hits" sites such as Great Images in NASA (GRIN). But these days photo galleries are also social media, since people like to share and comment on photos. So NASA has been putting photos out on Flickr (e.g., JWST, Read more...
Music of the Spheres, Today, 2:14am
"The 24th Shitkickers Were Never The Same After The Peloponnese" Read more...
The Lensman's Children, Today, 2:14am
X-51 hypersonic waverider prepping for spring flight
Dispatches from the Final Frontier, Yesterday, 2:14pm
Genes and Culture
-- is the subject of my latest offering over on Chicago Boyz. Enjoy! Read more...
¤, Yesterday, 2:14pm
Any Old Blogger Can Donate Blood
UPDATE: Yikes! OK, the usual instructions are -- poke around a little while you're here; I particularly encourage reading the posts listed under "Important Stuff" in the left sidebar. Feedback is welcomed via the link above; first-time e-mailers will have to batter their way through Spam Arrest. Read more...
¤, Yesterday, 2:14pm
See Baroness Greenfield at the Florey Lecture (Friday September 3)
The Florey Lecture is an Annual Public Lecture at the University of Adelaide where a distinguished international scientist talks about some aspect of medical science and how it touches our lives. Read more...
Astroblog, Yesterday, 2:14pm
The Return of We can be Heros (just for one Day)
After a break of a year, due to family commitments, I am entering the City to Bay fun run. In 2008 I ran a whole 6 kilometres. This year, I'm going to walk 6 kilometers. Read more...
Astroblog, Yesterday, 2:14pm
All human procreation and farming must cease!
SB7 on the James Lee [1]This is blissfully contradictory:9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy.11. You’re also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing.Get it? Less economic activity, less production, but more employment and more construction.Not constructive, productive, solutions, dear SB7. The solutions for item 11 are alluded to in item 5All human procreation and farming must cease!We may discard the first item as impossible: procreation will happen. Just ... will.The latter points ...... Read more...
Space For Commerce, by Brian Dunbar, Yesterday, 2:15am
Uganda: Credit Reference Bureau Starts Work in June - AllAfrica.com
Sylvia JuukoKampalaTHE first Recognition Mention Agency (CRB) will open up store by June.The development is expected to cut down the hazard of loaning by fiscal institutions. Juma Walusimbi, the manager of public dealings at the cardinal bank, said last hebdomad that Compuscan Information Technologies, a South African company, had been selected for the service.He said owed to deficiency of a national identification, an personal identity system would be put up with the introduction of new fiscal cards."All intending borrowers volition get a fiscal card that volition cost about $2 that volition bear their exposure and thumbprint because we make not have got got national IDs," Walusimbi explained.The inside information of a borrower, he added, would be stored with the CRB for mention regarding a customer's recognition history."This will cut down the figure of borrowers that are not... Read more...
Apolloera, Yesterday, 2:14am
Flying Moondust
Here is an interesting article about the possible dangers of flying moondust when we go back to the Moon, particularly to stay at moonbases. The film and video of lunar landings and liftoffs showed the dust flying off at high speeds. During landing, the Lunar Modules (LMs) descent engine scoured the surface as the lander approached, kicking dust out at speeds of probably around a kilometer per second. Without an atmosphere on the Moon, the dust will fly off on ballistic trajectories rather than billowing like it does on Earth during rocket launches that we see commonly on TV. The article above shows the affects of concrete blasted out of the flame trenches of the shuttle launch pads that drill holes in fences and damage other equipment. The smaller... Read more...
Apollo, Space & Science, Yesterday, 2:14am
U.S. Plans A- Bomb as a Space Engine; U.S. Plans to Test Atom Space Drive
John A Osmundsen Read more...
Deep Space Bombardment, Yesterday, 2:14am
Black Holes and space law consulting
Along with all the buzz about Professor Frans von der Dunk joining the faculty of the University of Nebraska's new space law program, we've also been hearing talk about... Read more...
Space Law Probe, Yesterday, 2:14am
CxP LOC/LOM Numbers
I wasn't planning on doing any more blogging today, but I had a serious "what the hud!" moment earlier today, and thought it worth bringing attention to it. This is a presentation that was given by NASA back on July 2nd, and linked to by "anonymous.space" over in a comments section in Space Politics. Anonymous.space brought attention to three rather troubling slides: pages 26, and 62-65. Read more...
Selenian Boondocks, Yesterday, 2:14am
Shuttle Launch Prep in 3' 52"
This is so cool. It's a time-lapse video that shows the full six-week preparation sequence of the shuttle Discovery for STS-131 condensed into three minutes, 52 seconds. It's from Air & Space Magazine (one of my favorite magazines). Thanks to astropixie for the tip. Read more...
Music of the Spheres, Sep 1, 2:41pm
Oh captain, my captain. My sweet, sweet, captain
It's back to school time. That, and this thing, and the other, got me to thinking about the handful of teachers I had in high school who were, I mean, totally, hot.I'm 43. The youngest of these fine ladies is pushing past 70 now.Time flies when you're having fun. Read more...
Space For Commerce, by Brian Dunbar, Sep 1, 2:16am
QBR: 0* :Aiming for the Stars
Quick Book Review: Zero Stars Read more...
Deep Space Bombardment, Sep 1, 2:16am
My Other Car is a Saab?
I'll have to run this by my wife, but it seems like a great deal. We've got a Prius and a Volvo - how about a 1964 Saab in great condition? A mach 2 Saab J35 "Draken" jet interceptor, that is. I saw this in a video news item on Yahoo. It's a sweet ride and an amazing bargain at $175,000... Read more...
Music of the Spheres, Sep 1, 2:16am
Charles Non-science on Climate Change Again
My new buddy Charles at LGF has posted again on climate change. Once again, he takes sides without considering why his side might be dumb. In this instance, he links to a Times article about the latest snow storms back east. Charles writes in this regard:One of the most ignorant (and often intentionally deceptive) “common sense” talking points promoted by the climate denial industry is that cold weather proves global warming theories are a hoax. Every time there’s a blizzard, this hoary old chestnut is taken out of the freezer, thawed out, and hyped by all the usual suspects, including the Republican Party. And every time they defrost it, it smells worse.Charles has apparently not noticed how the opposite "common sense" talking points have been dragged out for years by... Read more...
carnaby fudge, Sep 1, 2:16am
Venus, Mars and Spica
Venus, the bright star Spica and Mars form a triangle in the evening sky over Adelaide on Friday 29 August. Dim Saturn is down below, just above the trees. You will probably need to click to embiggen in order to see all the stars and planets clearly. Read more...
Astroblog, Sep 1, 2:16am
SPA Convention 2009
It's that time again! The Society for Popular Astronomy have announced that their 2009 convention will be held at the Institute of Astronomy on March 7th. Read more...
davep's astronomy, Sep 1, 2:16am
Our kind of market insight
Heh. UBS's moon market humor is making the rounds. (Now in WaPo and elsewhere, yesterday reported on Simberg's TransMu.) Read more...
Space Law Probe, Sep 1, 2:16am
George Nield, acting AST chief
I see no announcement or notice on FAA/AST's website but Patti Smith confirms via e-mail that, no surprise, deputy associate administrator Dr. George C.... Read more...
Space Law Probe, Sep 1, 2:16am
The "Gap" and Continued Light Blogging
I've got a couple of other posts I want to write about soon, and I'm about 75% finished with my final Orbital Access Methodologies post. But unfortunately, for the next week I'm not going to have much of any free-time at home or at work, so light blogging is going to continue for a while. Read more...
Selenian Boondocks, Sep 1, 2:16am
Orbital Access Methodologies Part III: Pop-up TSTO
This third installation in my Orbital Access Methodologies series (parts I can be found here, and part II here) has been a long time in the coming. It has taken so long, not because I've been spending months researching and analyzing the topic (I knew most of what I wanted to say back in January), but mostly because I was surprised by how much favorable attention the first part received, and I've been worried about not meeting expectations. A good part of the reason why that first article was so good was that I was able to lean heavily on help provided by Dan DeLong and Antonio Elias, both of who had been analyzing air-launched orbital access methodologies since I was still in gradeschool. I now have a bit more empathy for movie directors trying to make a sequel or a... Read more...
Selenian Boondocks, Sep 1, 2:16am