The FAA is seeking funds for a new space prize, $5 million for launching a small payload into Earth orbit.
No further details are yet available. One wonders what the criteria will be, as many established companies already routinely launch payloads into orbit.
FOIA documents show that the TSA has plans to expand its jurisdiction to searching random people on city streets. More here.
Five hundred customers into space in the first year of operation.
The Glory climate satellite has crashed in the Pacific when its rocket failed during launch today.
The uncertainty of science: Unexpectedly large amounts of flowing water and refrozen ice found at the bottom of the Antarctic icecap. Key quote:
It’s too early to know whether this new finding means that global warming will melt ice sheets slower or faster than scientists have predicted. But the work does suggest that current models of ice sheet dynamics are missing a huge factor, said glaciologist Donald Blankenship of the University of Texas, Austin. “The take-home message of this work is that [the bottom of ice sheets] can no longer be ignored” in the models, he says.
The secrets of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space project.
An evening pause: “Home.” The energy is infectious.
The new civility: Sheriff deputies find rounds of live ammunition outside the Wisconsin capitol building.
This is a typical union warning to those whom they dislike. When I was producing non-union movies in New York City back in the 1980s it was not unusual for me to find live rounds appearing in unexpected places on the set.
Judge gives Obama administration seven days to appeal or Obamacare is dead. And he really means it.
Did you hear the news? Scientists have solved the mystery of the missing sunspots!
You didn’t? Well, here’s some headlines and stories that surely prove it:
The trouble is that every one of these headlines is 100 percent wrong. The research, based on computer models, only found that when the plasma flow from the equator to the poles beneath the Sun’s surface slows down, the number of sunspots declines.
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