2010 was a trend, not a fluke: An incumbent eight year Republican Congresswoman lost to a tea party favorite in Tuesday’s Ohio primary.
This story illustrates once again that the tea party movement is not a partisan movement. Republican candidates who don’t toe the line on spending and taxes, like the Democrats, are going to lose.
When a solar storm slammed into both the Earth and Mars in January 2008, scientists were able to directly measure the importance of the Earth’s magnetic field in protecting our atmosphere from oxygen loss.
They found that while the pressure of the solar wind increased at each planet by similar amounts, the increase in the rate of loss of martian oxygen was ten times that of Earth’s increase. Such a difference would have a dramatic impact over billions of years, leading to large losses of the martian atmosphere, perhaps explaining or at least contributing to its current tenuous state. The result proves the efficacy of Earth’s magnetic field in deflecting the solar wind and protecting our atmosphere.
Chinese physicists have discovered a key measurement that helps explain why and how neutrinos can magically oscillate between three different states. Moreover, the data
implies that there could be a slight asymmetry between neutrinos and antineutrinos—called CP violation—a slight asymmetry that might help explain why the universe evolved to contain so much matter and so little antimatter.
An analysis of the most recent Kepler data suggests that Earthlike planets in orbits like our own are extremely rare.
An evening pause: As my wife Diane said after watching this, “Gee, I wish I had had a cool dad like that.”
Leftwing civility: Numerous death threats have been posted against Rush Limbaugh in numerous places on the internet.
The sun yesterday emitted its second biggest flare since 2006, with two coronal mass ejections heading for the Earth.
None of this will kill us, so stay calm. It is, however, a wonderful opportunity for solar scientists to study an active sun, something that might become rare in the coming decades.
A robotic refueling demo. designed and built by the same people who ran the Hubble Space Telescope repair missions, begins today on ISS, using Dextre.
This demo is designed to prove that a robot, operated from the ground, can refuel a satellite not designed for refueling. The demo satellite on ISS was built to match the design of several climate satellites already in orbit that will end up defunct in a few years if they can’t be refueled.
The USS Monitor gives up the faces of its dead.
A call to impeach Pennsylvania’s Zombie Mohammad judge.
Modern politically correct eduction: “Everybody from Texas is ignorant rednecks.”
The Left’s assault on free speech.
The same media that has done its best to smear any opposition to their agenda is now in overdrive to silence its opponents. This is an issue that goes to the heart of the First Amendment. I may disagree with Mr. Limbaugh, but I will support his right to free speech.
The rail gun: a cheap solution for getting payloads into orbit quickly.
Another state vs federal battle: The Utah legislature is about to pass a law demanding the federal government release to the state almost fifty percent of the state’s federal land.
The context here is that, for most western states, the federal government controls almost all of the real estate, and has in recent years increasingly restricted its use to the detriment of local residents. The legal maneuvering here is a push back by the state.
The delayed launch of Europe’s cargo freighter to ISS is now targeted for March 23.
Explaining the limits of the Congressionally mandated Space Launch System.
In trying to explain why SLS can never function as a crew ferry for ISS, I think Muncy also illustrates why the whole system makes no sense and is really a complete waste of money. Consider this:
SLS’s first uncrewed test flight would be in December 2017, with the first crewed mission nearly four years later, in late 2021. Even worse, NASA’s plan showed that Orion and SLS would be able to fly only one exploration mission every two (or more) years.
We are spending a lot of money for very little results.
An evening pause: How about some amazing piano jamming by Ronald Jenkees.
In honor of Andrew Breitbart, twenty examples of liberal hatred.
Sadly, this list is far from complete. But then, who cares? The left must be allowed to say and do anything because they are blessed with perfect knowledge and the only true path to righteousness. Anyone who disagrees with them is obviously evil who should be destroyed.
